Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | The murder last weekend of five Turks in Solingen , in Germany , coincided with a speech by Winston Churchill , a British member of Parliament and grandson of the grand old man , talking of the ‘ relentless flow ’ of immigrants into Britain ( which is not happening ) . |
| 2 | BUT it 's not like The U2 or The U2s , which is already happening and ruins it . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We are happy to legislate on something which is already happening in the game , in other words to make it legal for the hooker to strike as soon as the ball leaves the hands of the scrum-half — as happens in reality — rather than when it pitches . |
| 4 | The people in the photograph in the I ‘ –3()s saw the start of another great change which is still happening today . |
| 5 | So something 's obviously happening . |
| 6 | But something is already happening . |
| 7 | GUIL : ( Excitedly ) Out of the void , finally , a sound ; while on a boat ( admittedly ) outside the action ( admittedly ) the perfect and absolute silence of the wet lazy slap of water against water and the rolling creak of timber — breaks ; giving rise at once to the speculation or the assumption or the hope that something is about to happen ; a pipe is heard . |
| 8 | Whenever he gets the ball , everybody thinks something is about to happen . |
| 9 | We can also expect de-recognition by employers who are frightened to death by the T & G. It it 's already happening . |
| 10 | It 's already happening . |
| 11 | Their view of the world is contained in the belief ‘ if it 's not happening in the domestic market , it 's not happening at all ’ . |
| 12 | Their view of the world is contained in the belief ‘ if it 's not happening in the domestic market , it 's not happening at all ’ . |
| 13 | At times it 's a joy when it 's not happening ! |
| 14 | I see now we 've got lots to do this morning , you 're going to need to ignore what 's going on behind me , ah , it 's not happening , right , as I said to you at the very beginning of September I 'm the star , so you pay attention to me . |
| 15 | Well we I would be more surprised that er er in fact I do n't think I 'm sure that it 's not happening on a on a on a er wide basis . |
| 16 | Well I know , I know you sometimes feel you do n't have clout , if it 's not happening you got ta come |
| 17 | I mean would , would , would n't you think it is a , a directive that if it 's not happening in your area you make it happen ? |
| 18 | asked about tea it 's not happening . |
| 19 | By avoiding this situation and pretending it 's not happening means that we can actually be risking the lives of one our friends , one of our family . |
| 20 | And now it 's finally happening . |
| 21 | It 's also happening in places like Coventry in England where rappers of the calibre of MC Evaready are pumping out tracks like ‘ To The Point ’ ( Reachin ) . |
| 22 | ‘ I still ca n't believe it 's really happening , ’ Alice said . |
| 23 | I ca n't believe it 's really happening . |
| 24 | When we 've actually given you the full thing in , the minutes , the mights , and where and whatever , you can look at it and say hey , there 's too much of that but what we 're addressing is the moral aspect of a child 's upbringing that perhaps we should be and say well right fine er , it might , I 'm just taking on environmental , right , now the year children to do environment there , but it 's really happening down there , I feel that these children in the past have n't he so can we take that out this year and bring in something totally new , totally different that you feel should go in erm so that it is more rationalised it 's not just my people doing what they want when you see the , the whole thing you can make suggestions and we come back and go back through it again we actually say to the form teachers this is what this will definitely happen for this term but when we 've looked at the whole five year sa side we might change some things . |
| 25 | A plant you do n't water , it droops but it does not die/your collection of erotic images is considerable but it 's always happening to someone else . |
| 26 | this is weird cos it 's like happening like really late |
| 27 | And years ago I used to have sciatica , round the nerve and but it 's only happens when I sit and then the last thing so I went to the doctors the other day and what they do , they see us around bash on , on the knee on the nerve and she said , all my muscles have gone ! |
| 28 | But it 's only happening in some less developed countries . |
| 29 | It 's still happening , is n't it ? ’ |
| 30 | It 's still happening . ’ |