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 | But something is already happening . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Whenever he gets the ball , everybody thinks something is about to happen . |
| 8 | In these circumstances soil erosion is potentially of utmost importance to the livelihood of these vulnerable people , even if it is not happening at present . |
| 9 | Most people when confronted by that kind of thing pretend it is not happening , hide themselves behind newspapers , show an unwarranted fascination in reading advertisements , but these four watched the drunk man 's progress , they seemed to monitor it . |
| 10 | I try to pretend it is not happening but I know it is . ’ |
| 11 | He added : ‘ It is not happened . |
| 12 | Written communications are different because whilst what you write represents your behaviour even though you are not present , it is n't happening ‘ in flight ’ as do face-to-face behaviours . |
| 13 | She sat without protest in the passenger seat as Donaldson clambered into the back to sit on a narrow sideways bench , thinking to himself this is n't real , it is n't happening . |
| 14 | I think any feminist movement in Britain should take on board the fact that Ireland is a colony and the fact that there is a lot of denial that goes on , people pretending it is n't happening , and saying there 's nothing that can be done . |
| 15 | It is n't happening , ’ he said cheerfully , as if that settled it . |
| 16 | erm its but I think to say that it is n't happening in schools is a bit unfair , because I do think it does happen in many schools erm and but there 's a great deal of work to be done . |
| 17 | Yet this is exactly what is happening and it is also happening with the schools in a reactive stance . |
| 18 | It is already happening in subtle ways : £2 to park your car beneath Simon 's Seat or Snowdon . |
| 19 | It is already happening in New Zealand where you can qualify for a remission of 60 if you dig the grave yourself , provided you can do it to the proper standards as prescribed by the local district council and bring your own tools . |
| 20 | That may sound extreme , but it is already happening in England , where market place education is rather further developed . |
| 21 | It happens in the musical world that conductors sometimes rely on their performers to do their work for them ; it is currently happening rather too often in the field of ‘ early music ’ . |
| 22 | I do still have to pinch myself every now and again to convince myself it is really happening … ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I do still pinch myself from time to time to convince myself it is really happening . ’ |
| 24 | The trick is to recognise it while it is still happening — to relish it , embrace it and know that , in the nature of things , it can not last . |
| 25 | When I read a novel the emotions aroused in me bring the experience of the events of the narrative into the present , but I am not likely to be misled into thinking it is actually happening for there are enough indicators in the environment to assure me that it is not . |
| 26 | They also enable weaker members of the family to point out what is happening to them whilst it is actually happening . |
| 27 | This is what is effectively happening in the scenario posed . |
| 28 | These observations may reflect what is already happening , yet their implicit optimism needs to be tempered by the realities of this kind of economic growth ( see also Kasarda , 1985 for a similar assessment of the US context ) . |
| 29 | ‘ You can see what is already happening . ’ |
| 30 | Are examination syllabuses seen as an unwelcome intrusion into the normal pattern of teaching in those subjects , or are they a natural extension of what is already happening ? |