Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] happens to " in BNC.
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| 31 | j it just happens to be one that I know about . |
| 32 | In this case it just happens to be true . ’ |
| 33 | Mine is not an isolated instance , it just happens to be the most famous , because it 's the first time such persecution has been exported to a western country . |
| 34 | But that 's , but that 's what I mean , they 're making , they 're saying let's make , when the white people make films black and white people watch them , they 're not specifically made for white people , not specifically made for black people , it just happens to be white actors . |
| 35 | ‘ Guy is not a yuppie , ’ Charles remonstrated , in the voice he reserved for humouring his little sister when she was being most irritating , ‘ He just happens to be a very successful … ’ her brother hesitated a fraction as if searching for the most appropriate description ‘ … entrepreneur . ’ |
| 36 | It is big — but it also happens to be Japanese , and so presents a juicy target . |
| 37 | As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me . |
| 38 | It also happens to be a disastrous blow to Test cricket 's normally well-guarded sanctity as the supreme form of the game 's expression . |
| 39 | But it also happens to be true . |
| 40 | It also happens to be a favourite animal for ethological experiments . |
| 41 | JC : It also happens to be very difficult to sing . |
| 42 | But it also happens to be true . |
| 43 | It also happens to be how David , who is from Wallasey , started his career . |
| 44 | He also happens to be the founder of one of the most beautiful islands in the Grenadines : Palm Island , 130 acres of tropical splendour . |
| 45 | He also happens to be marked to a Medau class members . |
| 46 | Louise said : " It often happens to me . |
| 47 | ( Mager I 962 47 ) In fact the definition of objectives and the evaluation of progress is something which as teachers we do all the tune ; it simply happens to be true that many of us do it very amateurishly and very half-heartedly , indeed we do it badly . |
| 48 | It undeniably happens to be the case that these phenotypic effects have largely become bundled up into discrete vehicles , each with its genes disciplined and ordered by the prospect of a shared bottleneck of sperms or eggs funnelling them into the future . |
| 49 | It 's the kind of thing you do n't think of until it actually happens to you . |
| 50 | As we have , therefore , travelled together through so many pages , let us behave to one another like fellow-travellers in a stage coach , who have passed several days in the company of each other : and who , notwithstanding any bickerings or little animosities which may have occurred on the road , generally make up at last , and mount for the last time into their vehicle with cheerfulness and good humour ; since after this one stage , it may possibly happen to us , as it commonly happens to them , never to meet more . |
| 51 | But you see the point , so in our species and of course in most societies this is true men are breadwinners whether in an agricultural society or an industrial society erm you know one often feels that if you 're the man in the family you earn all the money your wife spends it on most of the time erm it certainly happens to me er |
| 52 | But that 's easier said than done , and you will be lucky indeed if it never happens to you . |
| 53 | But what exactly happens to your body during this exhausting festive assault ? |
| 54 | To those Soviet generals determined to cling to the notion that the West remains a threat to Soviet security , the Gulf war represents another defeat for Soviet interests , whatever now happens to Iraq . |
| 55 | How we perform now will affect what ultimately happens to AEA , says chairman |
| 56 | So how we perform over coming months will have a profound affect on what ultimately happens to AEA . |
| 57 | I suppose I 'd like to feel safe in the knowledge that whatever else happens to music , people will just keep listening . |
| 58 | The point I would like to put over is , I 've listened to one or two erm , radio programmes , and television programmes about this and I personally would like to have more evidence of what actually happens to the animals . |
| 59 | Question four is a very simple one what actually happens to the music at bar nine . |
| 60 | At one point we read Pip 's story and what actually happens to him that day and then the older Pip reflects on the younger Pip 's actions . |