Example sentences of "[adv] happens to " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well this to , to photograph anything , this just happens to be a camera and I suppose that would appeal to a lot of camera collectors to people that I er er who I work with , people I know , friends and that , they know I 'm interested in photography and they always ask me about cameras |
| 32 | Among the extra work which required a special piece of plant to be brought onto the site for one week and then returned 200 miles , there must be some extra work which just happens to be within the scope of a piece of plant which is already on site which would otherwise have been idle during the week in question . |
| 33 | So in other words they were just like any other sibling , just happens to be they were erm conceived at the same time and er developed in the womb together . |
| 34 | In this case it just happens to be true . ’ |
| 35 | He 's a good-looking man , and the smile just happens to be part of the job . |
| 36 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 37 | Meanwhile Sir Clifford has engaged a nurse , Mrs Bolton … who just happens to be the village gossip . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | McInally 's agent just happens to be Denis Roache . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Whereas normally people would have , in the O U P , U K , which just happens to be 6 out of 31 . |
| 42 | But what exactly happens to your body during this exhausting festive assault ? |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | The vorticity intensification process will be strongest where the vorticity already happens to be large . |
| 45 | She made me promise to destroy them , ‘ if anything ever happens to me ’ , she said . |
| 46 | It was definitely a totally one-off accident , and I can only hope that nothing like that ever happens to me . ’ |
| 47 | ‘ Nothing like that ever happens to me . |
| 48 | This always happens to me when I play on grainy greens . ’ |
| 49 | I just had to keep telling myself it would all be worthwhile for both of us : one day she would be flying free , which is not something that always happens to birds of prey bred in captivity . |
| 50 | Yeah always happens to me . |
| 51 | Once a strip of new ocean floor has been formed , and acquired its magnetic recording , nothing further happens to it , but it continues to move away slowly from the ridge , at a rate of anything up to several centimetres per year . |
| 52 | The world No. 3 from Australia also happens to be the president of the International Squash Players Association and he said : ‘ Jansher was only at the dinner 15 minutes and this is a poor showing . |
| 53 | A Concorde tug was the brainchild of PC Bob Gilbert based at Maidstone , Kent who also happens to be a member of the Vulcan Association . |
| 54 | It is big — but it also happens to be Japanese , and so presents a juicy target . |
| 55 | The wedge also happens to be erotically fashionable at this time . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | After all , the medicine which led the pollsters and the Opposition down also happens to be the medicine on which they rely so heavily themselves . |
| 58 | Fresh from the USA , the Expo makes its UK debut in Scotland from 5–7 March 1993 , which also happens to be the European Year of Older People . |
| 59 | There also happens to be a young TV filmmaker ( Jean-Pierre Léaud , the nouvelle vague 's fetish actor ) similar to the one played by Cleavon Little in Yates 's picture . |
| 60 | Carey may be contested , as the Times , the Institute of Directors , Nicholas Fairbairn MP et al have been quick to attempt , but there is surely nothing curious in the head of a Christian church saying there are matters of greater moral significance than making money — unless by curious is meant the fact that Carey is head of a Christian church that also happens to be the established church of the realm . |