Example sentences of "they happen to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | A substance is necessarily such that all its properties are " essential " properties , in the sense that they all together define its " nature " , and if any of them were missing or were different from what they happen to be , the substance itself would be different . |
| 32 | Our workshop , on Staff Development for Language Teachers in Secondary Schools , although highlighting the informal possibilities which can be developed by committed teachers operating collectively wherever they happen to be working , was not intended to weaken the case for proper provision for community languages with proper validation of the existing expertise . |
| 33 | And that 's a lot of dead people … and innocent people , whichever side they happen to be on . ’ |
| 34 | Children will play wherever they happen to be — in the garden , the street , at the park , with friends or alone with their toys . |
| 35 | If , however , our interest was in the resources produced by UK nationals , wherever they happen to be located , then our ratio should use national product . |
| 36 | ‘ Unless they happen to be you ? ’ she finished drily . |
| 37 | Why should they be financially penalized because they happen to be sick or disabled ? |
| 38 | I find it surprising that Opposition Front-Bench spokesmen wish to exclude spouses because of whom they happen to be married to when they have good records of public service . |
| 39 | In all seriousness , I ask the Government not to deride the strong arguments for a local income tax just because they happen to be advanced by what they call minority parties . |
| 40 | And whichever sort they happen to be , they always think they 're the first of their kind . |
| 41 | Let us focus our attention on where Third World grain imports come from and how they happen to be available in such massive quantities . |
| 42 | Calls will be linked automatically to the first available Samaritan volunteer , whatever part of the country they happen to be in . |
| 43 | The decoders here are just non-linear functions , they 're just binary non-linear functions they happen to be but they 're non-linear . |
| 44 | Soon children will be lending each other America is Falling Down in which Michael Douglas , a disillusioned middle-class businessman , grabs his gun and storms a merry path through the city , showering bullets like confetti on anyone who gets in his way : especially if they happen to be Korean or Cuban . |
| 45 | And in so far as it , as the question arises erm of what kind of , of provisions erm are you going to find if you go abroad , erm then I think we can say that within the European Community , erm citizens of one member state are entitled to what the citizens of the member state in which they happen to be staying are entitled to . |
| 46 | One does n't want them to sort of follow it blindly , of course , one wants them to discuss it carefully , very carefully , but it has to sort of fit into the ongoing life of the institution and not be a kind of little game that someone is playing on their own somewhere because they happen to be linked with the university or doing a degree or something . |
| 47 | I think that they are erm unfortunately erm affected by any event which happens in an area in which they happen to be . |