Example sentences of "[n mass] who happen to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was basically a group of people who happened to be around but very soon we all had titles and were constantly organising and re-organising the creating divisions and systems and methods . |
| 2 | To a large extent , their numbers were made up of tourists , people who happened to be passing by , people with time to kill , and people who simply fancied doing something different . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're two different people who happen to be in the same business . |
| 4 | He knows slightly too many people who happen to be rich . |
| 5 | The high level of crime and the resultant number of people in prison are due directly to the policies of the Government , which have created people who are greedy and selfish , a society where people are supposed to be on their own , a society which destroys the morale and the will of people who happen to be on benefits and on the poverty line . |
| 6 | ‘ Where I come from is chock-a-block with perfectly useful and agreeable people who happen to be old . ’ |
| 7 | It would seem then to fall to those staff who happen to be bilingual , or to those few teachers who are actually engaged in the teaching of community languages , to raise general awareness in the few schools in which they are deployed . |
| 8 | Until recently , Peter had thought of Kate as someone to be avoided : a member of an alien species who happened to be Richard 's sister . |