Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | DARREN FERGUSON has won over his biggest critic — Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson , who also just happens to be his dad . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It very rarely happens to me . |
| 7 | " 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |