Example sentences of "and [pron] [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 31 | And then I began to become very worried about it and it just happened by chance that one Friday morning I heard a programme on Radio Brighton , and it was Doctor Wisbey speaking about dyslexia , and it dawned on me immediately that my son was dyslexia . |
| 32 | This happens with Latin American workers in the USA and it also happens with ASL users ( Fischer , 1978 ) . |
| 33 | And we work hard , we get very little money for it , we wait to get to the top and it never happens . |
| 34 | You can still see it going on today and it still happens does n't it like the Good News Bible if you look at that , I mean this a version of the Bible rewritten , presumably to tell people good news I do n't know , I 've never , never read it but I presume that that 's what the Good News Bible does and we now have countless bibles , where , where , where , where God is , God is female erm my guess is supposing that were the only Bible we had a feminist bible were no other bible and everybody for hundreds of years believed it , my guess is that in the future literary critics and bible critics could study that very carefully and I bet you somewhere there you 'll find internal evidence to show that once God had been male and had his gender changed , I 'm quite sure of it because edit a whole book like the Bible and completely eliminate all the evidence that God was once male would be a very difficult here , here and there you need little bits of evidence and , and again there 's lots of others I 'll mention in the lecture like God 's name . |
| 35 | You know , the water board er er it 's all the same ones that we hear on th on the television , and it still happens ! |
| 36 | Although most of them rarely attend , hereditary peers could still , if they so wished , dominate the proceedings of the House of Lords , and it occasionally happens , when a matter of vital and controversial national concern , such as the abolition of hanging , galvanises them , that many more than usual attend . |
| 37 | In the years when this inexplicable phenomenon occurs — and it usually happens around Christmas , and so is known by the local fishermen as El Niño — the plankton suddenly vanish , the fish die and the birds fly away or are left to starve and rot . |
| 38 | A girl sits down with a man and he says , ‘ What you need is a good romance and it so happens I 'm very romantic ’ — that 's marketing . |
| 39 | The old sunset-defying British Empire stands out even better , and it so happens that the main fossiliferous parts of it fall on a non-equatorial great circle , thereby providing ample ammunition for the polar wanderers . |
| 40 | The armourers all slept in a long room on the first floor , with J. in a small room to himself at the end , and it so happened that Matthew occupied the corresponding small room immediately underneath on the ground floor . |
| 41 | This was a wire type recorder , and it so happened that during the very substantial impact a piece of structure cut across the take-up spool presenting the investigators with something like 11 000 lengths of wire about ten inches long on which the events were recorded . |
| 42 | As we mentioned in the first chapter of this book , egalitarian marriage is now widely promoted as an ideal , but recent research indicates that there is a wide gulf between what is said to be happening in terms of sharing in marriage and what actually happens . |
| 43 | The cases where there is the most sustained coverage are acquittals and yet obtaining an acquittal for this group of offences is a comparatively rare phenomenon , both as a proportion of cases reported in newspapers and what actually happens in the court . |
| 44 | Deem herself acknowledges that the match between policy decisions made at one level of government and what actually happens in the classroom may be less than perfect . |
| 45 | [ W ] hat a Constitution says is one thing , and what actually happens in practice may be quite another . |
| 46 | What I can not do is go around and do a full enquiry to find out what the position is , an enquiry indeed might be difficult , because you may have found these people but actually pinning down er to who does it and what actually happens may be more difficult . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | And what actually happens is , there 's a description of it in there , and I 'm going to give you some more literature for you to peruse and get used to it , and you 'll actually going to be working very closely with your management on this , right , is that you will record all your activity every week . |
| 49 | When incest is the genuine major cause of sexual and relationship problems , it usually emerges only slowly , and there is considerable confusion over guilt , fantasies and what actually happened . |
| 50 | The second task was to follow through the police response to this demand , noting what was committed to paper , which officers dealt with incidents , the goals they were seeking to achieve , and what actually happened . |
| 51 | Between was set out on paper as theory and what actually happened in practise . |
| 52 | Indeed this is what accounts for the impression given by this type of use that there is a difference between what was perceived and what actually happened . |
| 53 | However , that evidence has to be considered along with what issue the referee had to consider and what actually happened in the reference . |
| 54 | We had Chernobyl , we had a series of hijackings , we had outrages at Athens Airport , we had the U S raid on Libya by bombers based in Britain erm and everybody then erm turned the corners of their mouths down and forecast the end of tourism , that doom is nigh , and what actually happened was that erm by the end of nineteen eighty six we were four point three per cent down in terms of numbers on a record nineteen eighty five . |
| 55 | The video work at this school revealed to some teachers the gap between their perception of what is happening and what really happens in the classroom . |
| 56 | You can you can apply statistics to it a bit but it 's very unlikely the statis st statistics and what really happens will always add up in fact . |
| 57 | Is there a difference between the evidence given in court and what really happened ? |