Example sentences of "to happen [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result , many actions that presidents allow to happen are covert and frequently illegal , usually concealed under a cover of wanting to help another country defeat Communism . |
| 2 | They 're going to happen are n't they , and H I V is the cause of it , but not , it does n't cause the death of some oth , you , people do n't die of H I V |
| 3 | With you being a lollipop lady it 's bound to happen in n it ? |
| 4 | The political problems that arise when changes do begin to happen were illustrated by the GP fundholders who had greater freedom than the DHAs . |
| 5 | The likeliest thing to happen is that you leg it because , in a hullabaloo , you are one against two … |
| 6 | Another thing that is quite likely to happen is that neither of us trusts the other : we both play DEFECT for all ten rounds of the game , and the banker gains $100 in fines from each of us . |
| 7 | There are occasions when you get an odd fish that weighs a couple of pounds more or less than the average on that day , but to expect this to happen is foolhardy . |
| 8 | If it now seems self-evident that monitoring of the global environment is necessary , indeed is even vital , the prediction of what is likely to happen is almost as important : the 170 000 people in the Maldives are understandably worried about the prospect of global sea-level change since no part of the islands is more than 2 m above present sea-level ! |
| 9 | What is more likely to happen is that the intensity of the pain will gradually diminish as the weeks go by until , one day , you wake up and realize that it is not there any more . |
| 10 | What tends to happen is that bands which are good have also got a bit more wit and charm than the regular outfit |
| 11 | What needs to happen is for players to learn how to ruck and maul more efficiently . |
| 12 | What is likely to happen is that they will shun those centres that have a bad name or are lacking in professional infrastructure ( the two usually go together ) in favour of well-regulated , stable ones . |
| 13 | Nothing 's going to happen is it ? ’ |
| 14 | I do n't see any particular reason to panic because what we knew had to happen is now beginning to happen . |
| 15 | Any sexual activity which allows this to happen is unsafe . |
| 16 | What seems to happen is that an individual , given his arrival in a situation , reviews it in the context of his own objectives and decides that if he takes certain actions , the situation will change in the direction of his objectives . |
| 17 | What has to happen is this . |
| 18 | What commonly seems to happen is that project work comes to consist of the accumulation of large amounts of haphazard information , often copied directly from reference books . |
| 19 | which is burnt off when the whole thing gets fired in the kiln , so what will have to happen is the , your pots you 've done so far , once they 're thoroughly dried and go into the kiln , they 're fired at a high temperature and then they 'll come out this bit fired you 'll then separate them with oxide pastes , dip them into glaze , which I 'll explain in a minute , and re-fire them at a higher temperature , the glazed would |
| 20 | A forewarning to the reader that something important and mysterious is about to happen is extremely useful . |
| 21 | In fact the rule fails to show the full complexity of the morpheme boundary constraint ; what appears to happen is that if another syllable intervenes raising and lengthening fails , unless that syllable is an inflectional morpheme . |
| 22 | What needs to happen is that the trade should be made aware of the shortlist ; the media must pick up the vibes ; and the winner should be available in paperback ( Emily will be a Pan in October . |
| 23 | And where defining requirements is difficult what tends to happen is that we do n't bother . |
| 24 | The only way that 's going to happen is if it looks like a professional West End production . |
| 25 | They 've already lost the centre half the last thing they want to happen is to lose a centre forward . |
| 26 | And wh what tends to happen is the dreams are , are , are repetitive , although they often vary in small details , and the idea is , or this was Freud 's , Freud 's idea , and basically it 's the same as his explanation of anxiety dreams , that , that what is happening here is that the mind has got a very disturbing latent content that it ca n't forget . |
| 27 | So what tends to happen is that females invest in parental , i in their offspring , males put their effort into mating success . |
| 28 | As discussed in Chapter 2 , the world in which RE has to happen is a pluralist , secularist one and only a minority of the population acknowledge that religion is an important part of their lives . |
| 29 | Right , it 's not impossible because what tends to happen is that you can erm , you can change the product mix of what the consumer receives . |
| 30 | So what tends to happen is that world , world agricultural prices fall , right , and that trend has been observed erm , er , it 's an im empiric empirically , agricultural product prices tend to have fallen in general sort of , over the last sort of , eighteen hundred years . |