Example sentences of "who [adv] happen to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later I mention this encounter to an old friend who just happens to be a former service supervisor for the phone company . |
| 2 | Meanwhile Sir Clifford has engaged a nurse , Mrs Bolton … who just happens to be the village gossip . |
| 3 | ‘ The whole thing has got out of control , I 'm not so much bored as miserable , ’ confided Diana to a sympathetic neighbour who just happened to be a journalist . |
| 4 | The station commander , who just happened to be a bit of an oppo of mine called " Bull " Jarmen — a great monster of a fellow and a Kiwi to boot — who was heard to say : " Well , it was very convenient him leaving it there ; you did not have to travel very far to collect it or find out what happened to the undercarriage . " |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Bank Assistants can not afford to live on their current salaries and , as has been pointed out , a Bank assistant who also happens to be a bread winner would be better off on the Dole ! |
| 7 | This kind of puzzle is not merely of interest to intellectuals who study what is called game theory , an area of mathematics advanced by John von Neumann , who also happens to be the father of the stored program computer . |
| 8 | It was by chance and with the support of a visiting teacher of drawing who also happened to be a lecturer at Goldsmiths College that I succeeded in getting a place at art school , the first and last totally blind student to have ever done so in Britain . |