Example sentences of "[noun pl] happened to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words happened to be the first I could enunciate . |
| 2 | And the words happened to be so very true … |
| 3 | The boaters happened to be Russell Train , who ran the Federal Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) in Washington , just 50 km to the west , and Senator Charles Mac Mathias of the state of Maryland , which shares with Virginia the bay 's 13 000 km of shoreline . |
| 4 | Secondly , the pooling system for higher education expenditure amongst local authorities was one which protected those authorities in which the newly-designated polytechnics happened to be situated . |
| 5 | Hoomey , in the next desk , was yawning , having sat up late to watch the horror film , and had a comic open on his desk which he was reading whenever his eyes happened to be open . |
| 6 | The ringing in his ears happened to be a bare half tone below the key in which he hummed music to himself . |
| 7 | This was in the early 30's when the economic war between England and the Republic was at its height and representatives of both governments happened to be attending the Imperial Economic Conference in Ottawa . |
| 8 | Vologsky had constantly reassured himself that the repeated refusals were simply because his applications happened to be made at an inopportune moment . |
| 9 | On his deathbed at Pentecost 337 he was baptized by a bishop whose sympathies happened to be Arian ; much later legend made Pope Silvester bestow the lifegiving baptismal water . |
| 10 | Moreover we can discuss the meaning of what is being said even if it so happens that there are no trees in the park , or if all the trees happened to be the same age and none of them was an oak . |
| 11 | One quite serious limitation in the original selection of these authorities lay in the criterion for selection which seemed to rest in the main on those authorities whose drama advisers happened to be currently in favour with H.M.I . |
| 12 | Alternatively one could simply say the seats were actually all taken , and that all three occupants happened to be in the toilet at the time . |
| 13 | By chance , one of the world 's top fashion talent-spotters happened to be booking in for that same flight . |
| 14 | Half the market centres of Sussex had populations below 500 ; indeed , places such as West Tarring , Broadwater , Hailsham and Storrington are best described as villages where markets happened to be held . |
| 15 | Lulach was unfortunately simple-minded — probably the only reason he had been allowed to survive , when two other claimants contesting Duncan 's pretensions happened to be murdered just before and after the investiture . |