Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] happens to " in BNC.

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1 During the 1970s several teams attempted to refute this claim , arguing that the connection is a figment of Arp 's imagination , that it is an optical illusion caused by the overlap of isophotes ( light contours ) from the two objects , or that it is an illusion caused by a star or galaxy which just happens to be located between the two objects .
2 We sometimes surprise ourselves as well as our near and dear ones by suddenly exploding into unreasonable anger over a trifling offence which just happens to be the last straw that breaks the camel 's back .
3 We shall be considering The Prelude as a poem at the appropriate point in the Critical Survey ; for the moment I propose to refer to it simply as evidence of Wordsworth 's internal struggles and preoccupations , as if it were a diary or a letter to a friend which just happens to be in verse .
4 Most philosophical systems of ethics , and most popular moralizing , are radically flawed because they recommend morality to us either as what it is in our own best ultimate interests to do , or alternatively try to promote it by appeal to our feelings , for example feelings of compassion , or ( like Hutcheson ) by reference to some kind of moral sentiment which just happens to be part of human nature .
5 The user prepares a document using Berthold fonts and sends it to a bureau for output on an imagesetter which just happens to be running Hell-Xenotron 's Bridgit .
6 A random development , culturally reinforced , which just happens to be love rather than something else ?
7 The only thing they have in common is that they are all outgoing , extrovert , self-confident , irrepressible and generally sparky personalities — which just happens to be a pretty good recipe for attractiveness in a woman , as well as being the ideal make-up for sales . ’
8 Among the extra work which required a special piece of plant to be brought onto the site for one week and then returned 200 miles , there must be some extra work which just happens to be within the scope of a piece of plant which is already on site which would otherwise have been idle during the week in question .
9 Whereas normally people would have , in the O U P , U K , which just happens to be 6 out of 31 .
10 Fresh from the USA , the Expo makes its UK debut in Scotland from 5–7 March 1993 , which also happens to be the European Year of Older People .
11 Of interest is the Gothic cathedral in Magdeburg , the market square in Halle and the Bauhaus museum in nearby Dessau ( which also happens to be the birthplace of Händel ) .
12 We 'll never know if we do n't try it at Czerny 's tempo which also happens to be Beethoven 's for his Scherzo .
13 I 'm going to multiply it by another number which also happens to be a hundred to the power a half .
14 Once a strip of new ocean floor has been formed , and acquired its magnetic recording , nothing further happens to it , but it continues to move away slowly from the ridge , at a rate of anything up to several centimetres per year .
15 When these result in avoidable death , and they do , then it could be anyone who just happens to be there — employees , consumers , ordinary citizens .
16 Later I mention this encounter to an old friend who just happens to be a former service supervisor for the phone company .
17 Meanwhile Sir Clifford has engaged a nurse , Mrs Bolton … who just happens to be the village gossip .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 !
21 Everything nice happens to me in the autumn .
22 Usually , it only happens to grown-ups .
23 ‘ as if he only happens to be with us by accident and could just as easily be amusing himself at some other job elsewhere . ’
24 This house was indeed built for a gentleman — it just happens to be on an almost miniature scale .
25 I know that 's very boring of me , but it just happens to be true , my dear .
26 It just happens to be legal . ’
27 Unless , of course , it just happens to be a Japanese burglar .
28 ‘ I happen to believe variety is the spice of life , it just happens to be that women end up victimising themselves a lot , or subjecting themselves to a lot of bullshit to get some sort of coverage .
29 When you do this what you will see in the cell is either a 0 ( meaning False ) if what is actually in B10 is n't Bach or 1 ( meaning True ) if it just happens to be Bach .
30 it just happens to be the same amount at exactly the same time but how nice of him to explain and how silly of us to be taken in by this string of coincidences .
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