Example sentences of "[det] happens to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This happens to be a good strategy for a side with material superiors , and computers have won quite a lot of games with this strategy . |
| 2 | Another audio item which need take up little room is an extension microphone — useful if only as a means of eliminating the pick-up of camcorder operating noise in quiet conditions if this happens to be a weakness of your machine . |
| 3 | Cos this happens to be a camera but it could just as well be er an electric toaster , or any , any inanimate object taken er , in this fashion , and the thing you 've got to do if you take a photograph of an inanimate object er , like this , is to light it correctly , er it 's got to show all the erm , detail finely , and it 's got to have good quality in the printing . |
| 4 | Thus , it is quite predictable that there should be a means of questioning the verb and the adjective taken together , as indeed there is , although this happens to be a phrasal form — what … do to … ? — rather than a single interrogative word ; cf. ( 13 ) or ( 17 ) and ( 18 ) . |
| 5 | Because as my needs change , so this happens to be a flexible system , and you can adapt it to your own particular needs over time . |
| 6 | But I admit that what you do in your own department is n't normally my business , only this happens to be an exception . |
| 7 | THE ENGLAND captain 's name has appeared under several titles , but this happens to be the first full-length biography . |
| 8 | That happens to be a fact , and it was this Government who set out to do something about it . |
| 9 | To our colleague from London , let me say I happen to be a boilermaker , not because I 'm a dinosaur with me head in the past , but because that happens to be the occupation that I follow and that 's what I am . |
| 10 | If you produce a lovely little item which fits perfectly on a particular radio programme , or newspaper , and that happens to be the week that it 's the county show , or an earthquake , or something like that , there 's no way you 're going to get it in , because there 's too much competition , and the next week it 's dead . |