Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] happens [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is it your habit to accept lifts from any stranger who happens upon you ? ’ |
| 2 | If you come out of a swimming pool and stand at the side what happens to you ? |
| 3 | Study what happens in 12 x 9 ÷ 9 . |
| 4 | And rather surprisingly , bearing in mind what happens in the Endsleigh first division , that there it is goals scored that dis differentiates between teams , in this league it will be goal difference that will determine the final positions , followed then by the highest number of goals and then by the highest number of goals scored away from home . |
| 5 | It 's just a graph of a function which happens to be a straight line . |
| 6 | I said well I 'm trying to I said this bloke what happens to be my oldest brother I said , and he wo n't even tow it for me ! |
| 7 | to observe by following the reactions and negotiations of parties and political movements what happens to the British Government 's present initiative in Northern Ireland , its direct impact on and relationship to Irish politics , and its probable indirect effect on Scotland ; and to describe and analyse the kinds of political argument used ; |
| 8 | A few Labour Councillors , a Labour M P , two or three Trade Union representatives , a G P a G P who happens to be a Councillors , Labour Councillor 's wife and one or two others |
| 9 | As I understand it the Cleveland structure plan proposes the same number of dwellings for erm its next period which happens to be fourteen years , as it did for the last fourteen of the of the previous structure plan , fifteen thousand seven hundred . |
| 10 | Does one appoint a poor teacher who is a mathematics specialist to a staff rather than an excellent teacher who happens to be a historian but who enjoys teaching mathematics ? |
| 11 | erm when he eats and ice cream cornet outside the House of Commons there happens to be everybody around . |
| 12 | New Zealand , too , fielded a side below full strength , though that is their privilege , and an uninspired 80 minutes signified little , beyond underlining the value of Kevin Iro to whichever team he happens to be playing in . |
| 13 | Look , Fred , there 's something I think you should know , just in case — well , in case something happens to me . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I have to decide whether to get a goalkeeper on loan for the rest of the season in case something happens to Pears . |
| 15 | So what you 're saying , in terms of the eight minutes , is that something , an event which happens on the sun , which is visible , takes about eight minutes to reach us . |
| 16 | I think that they are erm unfortunately erm affected by any event which happens in an area in which they happen to be . |
| 17 | ‘ It is just one of those things which happens from time to time . ’ |
| 18 | Are you , the haulier , agreeing , for example , to supply a particular vehicle for haulage or to supply any lorry which happens to be available at the time the contract needs to be undertaken ? |
| 19 | At least that way I shall feel more confident that it 's Labour Party members and supporters who are selecting candidates and electing the leader and deputy leader of the Labour Party and not a Liberal or Tory trade unionist who happens to be paying the political levy . |
| 20 | The reason is that heads of chambers are not required to notify vacant tenancies to a central office , so that there can be fair competition for them ; the tenancy is given to the person who happens to be on the spot and who is acceptable , or to a relative of the head of chambers , or otherwise by favour . |
| 21 | Which would seem to suggest that old-fashioned good singing is good , no matter what register it happens to be in . |
| 22 | Believers will believe in God whatever happens on earth . |
| 23 | Is there any reason to suppose that individual decisions on family size will result in an average which happens to be the replacement rate ? |
| 24 | My hon. Friends and I feel justified in asking for a special debate to call attention to the ridiculous fact that , at Humberstone , which is part of the EDDR route , a mile of new road costing £1.5 million has stood finished and unopened for over a year , while the county and city councils argue about a proposed route by the side of the clinic on Scraptoft lane through a recreation area which happens to be owned by the city council . |
| 25 | And what I mean by that is for example er a pan like that we can buy for a quid which happens to be a . |
| 26 | Now we 're part of government policy which happens to be hear no evil see no evil … one bloody monkey 's enough if he 's in the top job . |
| 27 | It would mean you see me as a woman who happens to be in science , and not as a scientist . |
| 28 | Few people are aware how men , who on the whole are more socially , economically , politically , and physically powerful than women , use these resources frequently to batter wives and cohabitees ( Dobash and Dobash 1981 ) , sexually harass their female ( usually subordinate ) co-workers , or assault/rape any woman who happens to be in the way ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 29 | ‘ Do you have such an inflated idea of your own sex appeal you think you can grab any woman who happens to be to hand ? ’ |
| 30 | For an EMPLOYEE entity , for example , an EMPLOYEE entity occurrence who happens to be a manager manages other occurrences of the entity EMPLOYEE . |