Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , the medicine which led the pollsters and the Opposition down also happens to be the medicine on which they rely so heavily themselves . |
| 2 | Why , why was n't it enough that out of every experience that I mean like not much happens to the back of your neck like that , that 's one thing that I 'd even think about , I mean I 'm not any kind of historian , but like , like anything like the back of the neck I would think of a guillotine also . |
| 3 | Come to think of it , not much happened to Anna from the time Simon left us till she died — fifteen years or nearly . |
| 4 | But knowledge of the English burnings was widespread , and Scottish Protestants could not be sure that something similar might not now happen to them . |
| 5 | From the premises a > b and b> c , it does not simply happen to be the case that a> c . |
| 6 | What is in question is the comfortable argument that socially acceptable forms of work organisation always just happen to be those that are the most efficient . |
| 7 | DARREN FERGUSON has won over his biggest critic — Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson , who also just happens to be his dad . |
| 8 | One of the two witnesses , who also just happened to be the convener , Fred Clasper , claimed that a second warning note was unjustified as the foreman had been knocked down unintentionally . |
| 9 | Darwin 's view was that dreams prevented delirium by allowing trains of ideas to continue in the absence of sensory input — if they were to be suspended in sleep like the voluntary motions , ( which are exerted only by intervals during our waking hours ) an accumulation of sensorial power would follow ; and on our awakening a delirium would supervene , since these ideas caused by sensation would be produced with such energy , that we should mistake the trains of imagination for ideas excited by irritation ; as perpetually happens to people debilitated by fevers on their first wakening ; for in these fevers with debility the general quantity of irritation being diminished , that of sensation is increased . |
| 10 | This does n't just happen to you — you have to work at it and PE will help you to achieve fitness in an enjoyable way . |
| 11 | Possibly because we do n't take an ‘ oh , that could n't possibly happen to me ’ attitude to the former . |
| 12 | But Dot had thought it would n't ever happen to their baby . |
| 13 | There also happens to be a young TV filmmaker ( Jean-Pierre Léaud , the nouvelle vague 's fetish actor ) similar to the one played by Cleavon Little in Yates 's picture . |
| 14 | Could it possibly be mere chance , I asked myself , that this manna from God knew where just happened to be my absolute favourites bar none ? |
| 15 | It very rarely happens to me . |
| 16 | " Well , I 'm not quite sure that she might n't burst into tears , or perhaps suddenly take all her clothes off " This had actually once happened to Richard at Nestor and Sage , the investment counsellors where he worked . |
| 17 | But it never quite happened to Blythe , or to any other free-jazzer — indeed , with the exception of some of the hippier bits of northern Europe , out-and-out freedom never found much of an audience . |
| 18 | They pretended that what was happening was not happening , and if it were to happen , it would certainly never happen to the likes of them . |