Example sentences of "happens to be [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I like the er , you know , the nice little grin on her face , and the way she 's cuddling the teddy , erm teddy that happens to be a rabbit , it leaves us |
| 2 | Bank Assistants can not afford to live on their current salaries and , as has been pointed out , a Bank assistant who also happens to be a bread winner would be better off on the Dole ! |
| 3 | 4 ( 16 ) UNLAWFUL ENTRY : Ray Liotta plays the obsessive maniac , who happens to be a cop , terrorising an unsuspecting couple . |
| 4 | A Concorde tug was the brainchild of PC Bob Gilbert based at Maidstone , Kent who also happens to be a member of the Vulcan Association . |
| 5 | Happens to be a reversion of the two numbers which is neat . |
| 6 | our sales manager , popped the question to ( whose father also happens to be a customer ) and their big day will be sometime in the summer . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Imagine that you have just come home from your hard day being an Environmental Health Officer , and your neighbour , who happens to be a builder or bookmaker or something , invites you down to the pub , and over a pint he says , ‘ I heard something on the radio about some story . |
| 9 | And do galaxies with unusually compact companions show any sign of past quasar activity ? one intriguing clue is that the nearest compact galaxy we know happens to be a companion to the giant radio galaxy M87 — and its orbit must have taken it to within 6000 light years of M87 only 100 million years ago . |
| 10 | Apart from being an historian , currently engaged on research into the Welton family , whose ancestral home happens to be a couple of miles away . |
| 11 | ‘ This phone happens to be a call-box in Marylebone , ’ said Quinn , ‘ but you 're right not to trust it . |
| 12 | He happens to be a minister and found himself amid considerable grief telling his young family that their dog had gone for a walk with Jesus . |
| 13 | A few Labour Councillors , a Labour M P , two or three Trade Union representatives , a G P a G P who happens to be a Councillors , Labour Councillor 's wife and one or two others |
| 14 | The central problem would seem to be market vagaries ; old people should not be denied the services which they need to survive in the community because there happens to be a shortage in a given locality , or because certain areas are not profitable , or because some old people are less congenial than others . |
| 15 | This is especially evident when there is more than one sergeant and there happens to be a clash of personality and leadership style between them , although senior managers within the station are sensitive to this sort of problem and switch sergeants about when it occurs . |
| 16 | For an EMPLOYEE entity , for example , an EMPLOYEE entity occurrence who happens to be a manager manages other occurrences of the entity EMPLOYEE . |
| 17 | Jeremy Welsh 's Forest Fires is an all round experience , with leaves on the floor , the smell of woodsmoke and warmth from the fire , which happens to be a group of camouflaged televisions . |
| 18 | Briefly , it is this : that if a topic happens to be a non-meaning , then it must be possible , in addition , to refer to it by means of different , non-synonymous descriptive phrases expressing different yet essential features of the non-meaning in question . |
| 19 | " If the hostess happens to be a brunette she can wear an orange gown … to heighten and complete the illusion . " |
| 20 | That happens to be a fact , and it was this Government who set out to do something about it . |
| 21 | Even if the producer happens to be a resource owner , he is to be considered an entrepreneur with respect to the other resources he needs for production . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | ‘ She happens to be a visitor to wor house an' me ma sent us to escort her home . |
| 24 | The first one is called geometrical isomerism in some books not that you ever read , will read any chemistry books but just in case you stumble over one day and fall flat on your face and there happens to be a chemistry text book open and you ha , just happen to read one or two of the words as you go unconscious and in Matthew 's case if you wake up ! |
| 25 | Show me one small businessman who happens to be a director of a limited company , who actually requires 15 pages of nonsense that he does not understand , when his annual accounts are prepared . |
| 26 | It happens to be a matter of principle . |
| 27 | ‘ However — and it is a BUT in capital letters — it 's as deplorable as it 's inevitable that because he happens to be a movie star his actions have drawn a torrent of destructive attention upon the entire industry with a free-for-all splurge in 57 varieties of scandal , malicious tongue-wagging and dirt . ’ |
| 28 | Well this to , to photograph anything , this just happens to be a camera and I suppose that would appeal to a lot of camera collectors to people that I er er who I work with , people I know , friends and that , they know I 'm interested in photography and they always ask me about cameras |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Of course such behaviour wo n't wash , and I use the word advisedly , if the neighbour happens to be a colleague . |