Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] happen to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eighth , do n't expect to get any sort of sensible answers from a company who sells computers which happen to be capable of being used for desktop publishing . |
| 2 | This can present a problem id you happen to be the unhappy owner of a particularly noisy air pump . |
| 3 | They are also the greasy old retro pimps it 's OK to like , a bunch of seedy would-be Lynch subjects who happen to be one of the most important groups in Britain today . |
| 4 | U. supporters who happen to be at the fete will have extra motivation for hitting the net behind Wesley . |
| 5 | It does n't take too much imagination to guess that this means ‘ draw a circle centred at x = 10.5 , y = 24.75 , and of radius 3.9 , in whatever units we happen to be using at the moment ’ . |
| 6 | And that 's a lot of dead people … and innocent people , whichever side they happen to be on . ’ |
| 7 | Thus both knowledge and the learner are viewed as discrete entities which happen to be in one or another state of being , rather than as sets of dynamic and unstable processes . |
| 8 | The decoders here are just non-linear functions , they 're just binary non-linear functions they happen to be but they 're non-linear . |
| 9 | If you are unlucky enough to find yourself living with someone who seems to you to be an ‘ impossible ’ mother-in-law , it does no harm first to take a good look at yourself and your handling of her , just in case you happen to be one of the original ‘ impossible ’ daughters-in-law ! |
| 10 | But strained through they may be , the last place you expect to see a dust-up between the two protagonists is in Portugal — unless of course you happen to be a historian with a penchant for the Peninsular Wars . |
| 11 | The draft letter to Katkov merely claims that crimes like this fictional one can be found in the newspapers , and that the fictional murderer has come under the influence of certain half-baked ideas which happen to be in the air at the time . |
| 12 | This will include purchasers , donnees , borrowers , employees of a purchaser and bystanders who happen to be injured . |
| 13 | Back to the RSPCA campaign — while admirable , it does give the impression that the 1000 dogs destroyed daily are all good-tempered , potentially healthy young dogs who happen to be without a home . |
| 14 | The important thing is that we go onstage feeling like a unit , rather than a bunch of individuals who happen to be playing in the same key . ’ |
| 15 | And whichever sort they happen to be , they always think they 're the first of their kind . |
| 16 | The sorts of things I happen to like , the sorts of things I happen to be good at or bad at . |
| 17 | He points to the irrationality of this assumption and makes the seemingly rather obvious point that ‘ Torture … is an infallible means for absolving robust scoundrels and for condemning innocent persons who happen to be weak ’ ( p. 32 ) . |
| 18 | The basic idea is that in order to study a single linguistic feature , the investigator will elicit a set word or phrase in entirely naturalistic conditions from persons who happen to be in a given place at a given time . |
| 19 | As you well know our mission statement , Save The Children 's vision , commits us to using our experience gained here and overseas to achieve lasting benefits for children on a far wider scale than would be the case if we just confined our work to those children and families who happen to be involved in the projects we run . |
| 20 | Next , his staff in the White House hamfistedly fire seven non-political civil servants who happen to be popular with their only real clients — the White House press corps . |
| 21 | ‘ We 're two different people who happen to be in the same business . |
| 22 | He knows slightly too many people who happen to be rich . |
| 23 | The high level of crime and the resultant number of people in prison are due directly to the policies of the Government , which have created people who are greedy and selfish , a society where people are supposed to be on their own , a society which destroys the morale and the will of people who happen to be on benefits and on the poverty line . |
| 24 | ‘ Where I come from is chock-a-block with perfectly useful and agreeable people who happen to be old . ’ |
| 25 | It would seem then to fall to those staff who happen to be bilingual , or to those few teachers who are actually engaged in the teaching of community languages , to raise general awareness in the few schools in which they are deployed . |
| 26 | Olsen points out that this sort of imagery is alienating for poets who happen to be women ; I would point out in addition the rather sinister implication that men are somehow masters of language , so that they and not we are entitled to decide her fate . |
| 27 | ( By the way , in case they happen to be reading this , my apologies to Phillip , Mary , Harold and Henry for taking their names in vain ! ) |
| 28 | If you try to do the sums and ask could you do all those changes simply by sort of species going one way and the other relative to these changes erm in their origins and then those species which happen to be in the right direction being selection by some kind of species selection , I think the answer is you just ca n't make the sums add up right . |
| 29 | Although this appeal is only the third case ever brought by a local authority to come before the courts , not only are there numerous local authorities , we were also provided with a list of government departments which happen to be bodies corporate and would , on the argument of Mr. Newman for the council , equally have the right to sue for libel . |
| 30 | Schedule 1 , which contains the ‘ working languages ’ of the European Community , includes those minority community languages of Britain which happen to be the mother-tongues of members of the white population e.g. Italian , Spanish and Portuguese . |