Example sentences of "[adv] happen [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus we should guard against any immediate and unreasoned reaction to the idea that they might ultimately be widened to encompass individuals who do not happen to be human . |
| 2 | Can he give us any reason why the same principle should not be applied to any part of the country that does not happen to be his own ? |
| 3 | Moreover , if the moral judgment which we require to make is one which involves our own personal interest we might reasonably look to the relevant law as representing a less partial view of the matter than our own ; for , without attributing to the law a non-partisan impartiality at variance with most available knowledge about the actual political and legal processes , it might still happen to be less partial and more informed than we are when making judgments about cases which affect us closely . |
| 4 | Mr Kinnock hoped a Labour government would be so successful ‘ as to diminish the support for several parties who do n't happen to be our political allies and are unlikely to become so . ’ |
| 5 | Well , that does n't happen to be my style , my choice of façade . |
| 6 | Oddly enough , I did n't happen to be in my room again when Terry Wogan came to see me before the show on the second occasion . |
| 7 | We just do n't happen to be together at the moment . |
| 8 | It would n't happen to be a Dornier bomber they suggest , the good old Flying Pencil ? ’ |
| 9 | There does n't happen to be a pen in there does there ? |
| 10 | I think an MP is there to respond to correspondence , and I 'm very surprised that he takes issue with one of our officers because she does n't happen to be the Chief Officer , and I 'm very sad about that . |
| 11 | From the premises a > b and b> c , it does not simply happen to be the case that a> c . |