Example sentences of "[adv] happen to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | He 's a good-looking man , and the smile just happens to be part of the job . |
| 32 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 33 | Meanwhile Sir Clifford has engaged a nurse , Mrs Bolton … who just happens to be the village gossip . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | McInally 's agent just happens to be Denis Roache . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | Whereas normally people would have , in the O U P , U K , which just happens to be 6 out of 31 . |
| 38 | If the population already happens to be dominated by genes for pathway 1 , selection will favour other genes for pathway 1 , and penalize genes for pathway 2 . |
| 39 | The vorticity intensification process will be strongest where the vorticity already happens to be large . |
| 40 | But these just happen to be his , he ca n't ‘ prescribe ’ them ‘ for art ’ ; what he wants to say must come to terms with what the form allows him ; art refuses to be imposed upon , to be dictated to , and Dostoevsky 's dictum will stand . |
| 41 | Earthworms are the main item in a badger 's diet and cow grazing pastures just happen to be a good source of earthworms . |
| 42 | As with the intertidal communities , coral reefs flourish in regions that just happen to be especially favoured . |
| 43 | What is in question is the comfortable argument that socially acceptable forms of work organisation always just happen to be those that are the most efficient . |
| 44 | You know , just happen to be passing when they 're going out of school . ’ |
| 45 | ‘ I just happen to be the exception . ’ |
| 46 | Fil continues : ‘ We just happen to be in this bit … ( much laughter ) … of no money and knowing what it 's like to have no prospects . |
| 47 | And they just happen to be two of the best tracks . |
| 48 | And they just happen to be attached to a saint ! |
| 49 | I was received as a thief , a well-mannered rapist , bucketless car-washer , double-glazing runner , not to mention corrupt informant that some of them tiles is loose , Ma 'm , and we just happen to be in the area with a long ladder so why not call it eighty quid ? |
| 50 | Very often , these mutually unintelligible and exclusive ethnic cultures just happen to be the same as the groups which common sense tells us are ‘ races ’ . |
| 51 | Endless ads have been Green or organic , from the guy who rips his plans up to wreck the countryside and earns himself a beer , to the couple in the deodorant ad who just happen to be frolicking naked in the forest with camouflage make-up . |
| 52 | We just happen to be more lucky at laying hands on them than most . |
| 53 | It helps if you play for Swindon Town , or just happen to be a Formula One motor racing champion , but could we persuade Peter to add a Television Presenter to his collection ? |
| 54 | And some of them are good fun pop in their own right they just happen to be done in a foreign language and with different cultural influences . |
| 55 | They will doubtless say we are lucky , but we just happen to be house-owners with a steady income , like millions of others . |
| 56 | They just happen to be transmitted differently . ’ |
| 57 | and you just happen to be taller and heavier than James |
| 58 | The bombardier beetle 's ancestors simply pressed into different service chemicals that already happened to be around . |
| 59 | Both men had leapt to their feet and had been restrained from using violence by the mates of the shop steward , who just happened to be on hand . |
| 60 | One of the two witnesses , who also just happened to be the convener , Fred Clasper , claimed that a second warning note was unjustified as the foreman had been knocked down unintentionally . |