Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think er what I 'll do because Stuart who 's the C E O rather happens to be with us er I think I 'll ask Stuart if he would like to make a few remarks . |
| 2 | The auto industry just happened to be a convenient sector in which to show his determination to change ( Doner , 1987 ; Oman , 1989 : pp. 164–166 ) . |
| 3 | McInally 's agent just happens to be Denis Roache . |
| 4 | I think Alone In the Dark just happens to be one of those games . |
| 5 | Earthworms are the main item in a badger 's diet and cow grazing pastures just happen to be a good source of earthworms . |
| 6 | Frederick Campbell , when District Judge at Tangalla , also noted that cattle stealing prosecutions were identical : ‘ For example , no two parties ever happen to be together , and witness the removal of a stolen animal , one sees the removal at one , and another at another place , whilst a third sees the removal of the flesh . ’ |
| 7 | but I realised that big weight losses often happen to very overweight people at the beginning of their diets , so I did n't expect to continue at anything like that pace . |
| 8 | Very often , these mutually unintelligible and exclusive ethnic cultures just happen to be the same as the groups which common sense tells us are ‘ races ’ . |
| 9 | Paranormal experiences never happen to some people . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The vorticity intensification process will be strongest where the vorticity already happens to be large . |
| 12 | I wanted to ‘ do ’ someone I knew a little , but when I approached my number one seed , he served me up Roy as a better choice ( Roy just happened to be on holiday so not able to comment ) . |
| 13 | It is impossible to imagine such an accident ever happening to the meticulous and super-observant John Gould , but Darwin was no ornithologist , and , as a naturalist , he had had little training in the disciplines of collecting or identification . |
| 14 | But if , by any chance , the reporter 's wife or husband also happens to be an Environmental Health Officer somewhere else , and happens to know that he or she is going off to do an interview , and say , ‘ Hey . |
| 15 | And if a commercial building which suffers multi-million pound damage also happens to be a ‘ prestige ’ target , then so much the better . |
| 16 | Gooch , having exceeded the mighty Hammond 's Test aggregate , edged into his stumps ; Hick messed up an attempted pull against Waqar ; Smith was held brilliantly by the substitute fielder at third slip ( Latif also happens to be the deputy wicketkeeper ) ; and on the stroke of tea Stewart , having batted imperiously for four hours , fell disappointingly to a catch at cover off slow left-armer Mujtaba . |
| 17 | Where the shareholders also happen to be the directors , and a close personal trust and confidence is involved , the courts have been willing to look at the settlement of arguments on the basis of equity rather than strict legal principle . |
| 18 | He 's a good-looking man , and the smile just happens to be part of the job . |
| 19 | Why was it , she wondered , that weird things always happened to her ? |
| 20 | The wedge also happens to be erotically fashionable at this time . |
| 21 | I 'm sure the ‘ What an improved player so-and-so is ’ syndrome often happens to other clubs as well . |
| 22 | By chance there happened to be a 12 year-old MkII Boogie combo in the Guitarist studio with just such a loop . |
| 23 | A day 's golf with the president of this company or that company when the fellow who makes up the four and plays with the president of the corporation just happens to be last year 's Masters Champion . |
| 24 | The puppet is an exhibit at a cartoon gallery in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the real Mr Heseltine just happened to be passing through . |
| 25 | That game just happens to be the Tennent 's Irish Senior Cup semi-final against Avoca . |
| 26 | Pilkington disliked the impression conveyed that these friendly personalities just happened to be recommending products as though they were disinterested parties . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | our sales manager , popped the question to ( whose father also happens to be a customer ) and their big day will be sometime in the summer . |
| 29 | The grass was lucky if it grew , was shone upon and rained upon , and was not burned , and was not pulled up by the roots , or poisoned , or buried when the ground was turned over , and some bits just happened to be on a line that humans wanted to walk on , and so got trampled , broken , pressed flat , with no malice ; just effect . |
| 30 | Applecross just happened to be central when Xenly was divided and so became the only building to be shared by each community . |