Example sentences of "[noun] which happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily they chose experimental animals which happened to include a species sensitive to one of the new agents under trial . |
| 2 | We recently did a simple experiment which happens to illustrate how children 's knowledge of where an object is determines their behaviour . |
| 3 | Can anyone help with any information about a nasty scrape to my car which happened sometime during the day at Rutherford . |
| 4 | I had recorded my favourite radio serial one evening , along with twenty minutes of a programme which happened to follow it . |
| 5 | Eighth , do n't expect to get any sort of sensible answers from a company who sells computers which happen to be capable of being used for desktop publishing . |
| 6 | That is probably the worst one day figure which happened , as I say , combination of war and the snow , when the shops were pretty well closed off , and yes we certainly saw figures that , on a day for day basis to last year , they were seventy five per cent down , but cumulative I mean the position 's much better than that erm nowhere near that sort of figure , and erm we are very confident that the summer market for overseas holidays will recover steadily and we 'd be very surprised if , by the end of September , we 're more than five or six per cent down on summer holiday bookings compared to last year , and we 're confident enough to have brought back our campaigns and our advertising starts this week , and we 've even been confident enough to announce to our staff that their annual salary review will take place on the first of April as scheduled . |
| 7 | So we entered a genteel teashoppe/cafe which happened to be handy and ordered coffee , as so often before . |
| 8 | Could it be , as Kimura ( 1977b ) suggests , that : brain regions considered to he important for symbolic-language processes might better be conceived as important for the production of motor sequences which happen to lend themselves readily to communication ? |
| 9 | The following interesting account of a waterspout which happened about the middle of the 18th century is copied from Mr. Hutchinson . |
| 10 | More than fifty people were involved in the fight which happened earlier this month at the King Billy public house in Northampton . |
| 11 | During the time that you 've been away from work you have certainly not been ‘ not working ’ — you have undertaken a whole host of activities which happen to have been unpaid . |
| 12 | Grunte , he opined , was ‘ a pain in the bum ’ , although he had been quite helpful over the matter of the new motorway route which happened to pass through his garden or , if not his garden , damn close . |
| 13 | Thus both knowledge and the learner are viewed as discrete entities which happen to be in one or another state of being , rather than as sets of dynamic and unstable processes . |
| 14 | It 's just a graph of a function which happens to be a straight line . |
| 15 | This motion was triggered by a particular case which happened within the Birmingham region on the first of January nineteen ninety three which should have been a start of the European Market the people 's Europe . |
| 16 | She did not actually concentrate on the birds which happened to be there , nor did she feel any desire to feel them or encourage them to come near her — but she was quite able to relax knowing that they were there in the background . |
| 17 | Since technologies are ‘ neutral ’ , then no aspersions are being cast on individual members of cultures which happen to lack a particular technology and are thus taken to lack certain intellectual advantages . |
| 18 | Imposing exogenously a particular form of price rigidity which happens to produce the result that Keynesian stabilization policies can work is hardly enough by itself to justify such policies . |
| 19 | The best industrial record , in the shape of low rates of decline , was achieved in scattered rural areas which happened to escape closures and represented survivals from the earlier , more general drift to the countryside . |
| 20 | Two fire crews from Bury attended the crash which happened in a torrential downpour . |
| 21 | Police have appealed to witnesses to the crash which happened at about 2.45pm on Saturday . |
| 22 | Patel , who was driving friends home after drinks at a pub , fled the crash which happened on November 30 last year . |
| 23 | A third possibility is that the Candida provokes antibodies which happen to cross-react with some of the body 's own proteins . |
| 24 | What we shall do instead is to restrict the definition to one selected sentence type which happens to work , namely , that represented by the schema A is f(X) , where f(X) is an indefinite expression , and represents the minimum syntactic elaboration of a lexical item X for it to function as a complement of the verb to be . |
| 25 | of the District Council which happens to meet the same day as the County Council and the Economic Development Panel so if I can get a copy fast enough I will get one over here and that same week it will be formally preserved |
| 26 | The victim , aged 44 , is still recovering from her ordeal which happened outside Barclays Bank in Kingsway , Dovercourt , on February 22 . |
| 27 | Particular emphasis is being placed upon comparing those collaborations which happen spontaneously and those which take place within a publicly sponsored programme . |
| 28 | There is no need to allocate a copy of a book to a service point which happens to receive one or two reservations for it . |
| 29 | Because of the now universal use in England of the Historical year system , it is normal for reference books to mark events of all kinds which happened between 1 January and 24 March in any one year with a double indicator — thus King Henry V may be judged to have come to the throne on 21 March 1412/13 , that is 1412 by Annunciation reckoning , but 1413 by Historical ( now conventional ) reckoning . |
| 30 | However , he added that investigations were still proceeding over another accident which happened 12 days before Mr Doncaster 's death . |