Example sentences of "[adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 31 | It constantly happens that men with an unbroken record of success and public applause suddenly lay the burden down . |
| 32 | The smoke is probably unburnt fuel If the carb is a little bit worn it will do this The Solex carb is more prone to this than the later Zenith It may also be slight oil burning which is also very common as the engine starts and only happens for a few seconds This is a ‘ feature ’ of Land Rovers and is not really cause for concern |
| 33 | Usually , it only happens to grown-ups . |
| 34 | ‘ Real collaboration only happens when people working on the same scale want to share the results of their work or are willing to put money in a pool for an expensive project ’ said another official . |
| 35 | Rather strangely , it only happens during the Antarctic spring . |
| 36 | Transport only happens , apparently , when a motor is started . |
| 37 | However , this only happens if your debtor wants to defend the action or makes you an offer which you can and do refuse . |
| 38 | ‘ This sort of thing only happens in the movies , not during filming . ’ |
| 39 | ‘ Only happens to someone like Byrkin . |
| 40 | ‘ as if he only happens to be with us by accident and could just as easily be amusing himself at some other job elsewhere . ’ |
| 41 | It is true that water levels on the Alaskan coast , caused by tsunami , earthquake-related tidal waves , have risen over three hundred feet but this only happens when the sea-bed shallows close inshore : in the deep sea , although the tsunami can travel tremendously fast , two , perhaps three , hundred miles an hour , it 's rarely more than a ripple on the surface of the water . |
| 42 | Note this only happens when moving randomly , not when the Fanatic emerges from his unit . |
| 43 | This particular event only happens once every 400 years , and up until now it 's always been someone else 's turn . |
| 44 | This is not to suggest that history only happens because some later critic constructs it . |
| 45 | The Ulster Branch recognise the situation — it only happens like this once in a blue moon — but finding an answer is n't easy . |
| 46 | Well we , if , this only happens if we wish them to vacate the site , and what it is is to jump to a suitable |
| 47 | A command passed to the CLI is not executed until the CLI gains control , and this only happens when input is expected from the keyboard ( or redirected input file ) . |
| 48 | We know from other reported series it only happens on a very , very small number of patients . |
| 49 | This only happens when both the amplitudes and phases of the potentials at B and D are equal . |
| 50 | And years ago I used to have sciatica , round the nerve and but it 's only happens when I sit and then the last thing so I went to the doctors the other day and what they do , they see us around bash on , on the knee on the nerve and she said , all my muscles have gone ! |
| 51 | It only happens usually once |
| 52 | it only happens since we put clocks forward . |
| 53 | It just so happens that Irish national — popular consciousness interprets the presence of the British state in Ireland as a form of aggression and hence feel justified in repelling the British from Ireland . |
| 54 | It so happens that this troublesome question , or complex of questions , is not raised by the piece in Eliot 's selection that I shall take to represent Pound 's criticism at its irreplaceable best . |
| 55 | It just so happens that Berlin has expressed interest in a loan show . |
| 56 | It so happens that this rate is exactly the output of the building industry , averaged over the previous three years . |
| 57 | And it just so happens that I mentioned to one of my doormen that particular night that I could do with one of those machines to keep a careful check on my blood pressure . |
| 58 | ‘ Yes , as it so happens , various people have wished me congratulations ; very kind ; though did n't recognise most of them , I must say . ’ |
| 59 | It just so happens that some people get taught or pick up techniques without too much problem ( because of circumstances and the people they interact with and learn from ) but some individuals simply do not get exposed to the right experiences to learn these things in quite the same way . |
| 60 | 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 . |