Example sentences of "it happen to be [art] " in BNC.

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1 There is one summit , however , that can be attained by red-blooded fellwalkers and , by great good fortune , it happens to be a magnificent belvedere for appraising the surroundings .
2 It happens to be a matter of principle .
3 This will not always satisfy governors , parents , the LEA — or the church or religious order if it happens to be a voluntary-aided school .
4 It happens to be a physical fact that the light that we call red has a longer wavelength than the light that we call blue .
5 It happens to be the case that we can not , in our language , refer to the sensible properties of a thing without introducing a word or phrase which appears to stand for the thing itself as opposed to anything which may be said about it .
6 Thus free enterprise — the pursuit of fair profit , the generator of wealth and employment , the backbone on which social welfare is possible — can be viewed , at least by corporate officials , as the primary ethic for and of an industrial society , and conformity to this neutralizes any obedience to the law merely because it happens to be the law .
7 That approach builds teamwork and self-reliance and far from being a cost to the company is a benefit — unless it happens to be the kind of company that requires its employees to operate as autonomous automata .
8 Because it also happens , it happens to be the case that in local elections people tend to vote on national issues or perceptions .
9 It happens to be the truth .
10 The bond ( whose price includes 137 days ' accrued interest on 1 April ) has to be financed at the money market rate of 10 per cent for the 90 days between 1 April and 30 June , when the bond ( if it happens to be the CTD ) is delivered into the futures market .
11 Even a broken worm can kill , if it happens to be an adder .
12 We would n't have got on to it except it happened to be a post office where the little old lady is careful and takes a note of the numbers of anything over a fiver .
13 It happened to be a goods ' entrance , and as she pushed open the heavy doors and slipped inside the deafening noise hit her — of hammering and drilling and the drone of the hydraulic pumps that operated the floor levels together with the shouts of the men operating the overhead cranes .
14 It was a subjective , not an objective view ; but it happened to be the attitude of a man living in the kingdom which harboured Mary Queen of Scots .
15 Suppose , for the sake of argument , it happened to be the case that marriage weakened the power of a priest to influence his flock , say because it occupied a large proportion of his time and attention .
16 If it happened to be the first Sunday in the month my mother , my Aunt Gertrude and my two sisters ( after their respective confirmations ) went to early service — 7 o'clock Holy Communion at the Parish Church of St. Martin 's .
17 It happened to be the Conservatives , with an accomplished fixer , William Whitelaw , as responsible Minister .
18 That this was a part only of a very much broader problem was cheerfully con-ceded from the beginning ; it happened to be the project 's brief and that was that .
19 Thus we 've never considered it right to hand out cheques on a mere whim , deciding to sponsor a project , or support a charity because it happened to be the flavour of the month , or because a director had some some particular keen interest in it .
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