Example sentences of "[pron] happen [prep] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , for your information , my life is n't chock-full of boys , as you seem to imply — ’ not at the moment , anyway , she thought ‘ — I happen to be engaged to just the one . ’ |
| 2 | You see , I happened to be born in this house , so naturally I take a rather personal interest in its occupants . ’ |
| 3 | Unfortunately , the Cane Toad does n't warrant inclusion , because anybody who scrapes the skin off the toad would find themselves in possession of a substance called Bufotenine , which happens to be listed as a Class A drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 . |
| 4 | My hon. Friends and I feel justified in asking for a special debate to call attention to the ridiculous fact that , at Humberstone , which is part of the EDDR route , a mile of new road costing £1.5 million has stood finished and unopened for over a year , while the county and city councils argue about a proposed route by the side of the clinic on Scraptoft lane through a recreation area which happens to be owned by the city council . |
| 5 | In 1795–6 , for example , the member of parliament for the county of Angus found himself much concerned with the fate of a piece of crown land which happened to be situated within the plantation lands in the island of St Vincent belonging to Patrick Cruickshank of Stracathro , one of the Angus freeholders . |
| 6 | ( 4 ) Within this newer , linguistically-based account , Bernstein 's two codes are just two varieties of language , each equally valid as vehicles for group interaction and identity , which happen to be favoured by different social groups . |
| 7 | The planning of operations by those who are going to carry them out , obviates delay and misunderstandings which happen to be caused by intermediate stages , and makes for the speed of execution which in any operation of this kind is an incalculable asset . |
| 8 | The former is of interest only in that she happens to be married to the gorgeous Richard Gere , who not only has ten times her talent but ten times her looks ( do people really find that hideous mole of hers attractive ? ) . |
| 9 | She would n't mention the boy who 'd made trouble unless for some reason she happened to be asked about him , and she felt she would not be . |
| 10 | I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship . |
| 11 | Their children will in many cases be born stateless ( unless they happen to be born in a country where birth confers the right of citizenship ) . |
| 12 | One does n't want them to sort of follow it blindly , of course , one wants them to discuss it carefully , very carefully , but it has to sort of fit into the ongoing life of the institution and not be a kind of little game that someone is playing on their own somewhere because they happen to be linked with the university or doing a degree or something . |
| 13 | In all seriousness , I ask the Government not to deride the strong arguments for a local income tax just because they happen to be advanced by what they call minority parties . |
| 14 | I find it surprising that Opposition Front-Bench spokesmen wish to exclude spouses because of whom they happen to be married to when they have good records of public service . |
| 15 | At the editor 's workstation , which is n't a particular Mac but the one he happens to be logged onto , formatting codes are applied to the copy to generate the typeset material . |
| 16 | Now I 'd like to thing that an equal amount of effort can work more in our favour if it happens to be channelled towards a specific competition . ’ |
| 17 | In fact , when all his debts were paid off , the money was quickly spent and he soon found himself waiting to collect his $55 a week on the unemployment line at 75 East 13th Street , where he happened to be caught by an eagle-eyed Life photographer before the film 's release . |
| 18 | To reiterate the point just made , this is not an argument about the functional necessity for all societies to have a category of ‘ crime ’ but an argument about the positive qualities of what happens to be defined as crime under capitalism ; indeed , the argument is usually combined with the assumption that under socialism there would be no such thing as crime . |