Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [adv] happen " in BNC.

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1 Please have an article on this situation , not in London , not in Manchester , but a small town where people believe , rightly or wrongly , that nothing ever happens .
2 ( However we should still heed Mr Castro 's warning that nothing now happening in Europe is going to help the desperate problems of the Third World .
3 I said that I just happened to have my travelling rod with me … though it hardly mattered as they had more than enough gear .
4 The things I said may have been unjustified , and the fact that I just happened to be bloody tired and bad-tempered was no excuse .
5 Something that you just happen to know because of your profession ? ’
6 It may be said that a sensation of heat in the hand is not really an impression as of our hand being hot , but is simply something that we normally happen to get when our hand heats up .
7 Whatever you call it , this is the department that makes sure that everything actually happens , working in close liaison with the account executive .
8 The idea is not to block them out or pretend that they never happened — indeed you would be building up a store of problems for the future If you did so — but to prevent them forming part of your future .
9 However , in the social context of heroin use in a given community , it is just as important to understand how events are perceived by the participants as to know that they actually happened .
10 I am cynical enough to suspect that it probably happens , and it vividly illustrates the point about equipment improving while its net effectiveness stands still ( and its costs increase ) .
11 They had ceased to be shocked by nudity , and accepted that it now happened mostly on remote beaches where it need n't offend any villagers .
12 This is no guesswork ; we know from the records that it often happened like this .
13 If you were not contacted please let me know so that it never happens again .
14 I realize that , you know I would say five of them five people in both departments champion of champions let's hope that it never happens again , you know , these things do happen .
15 He should understand that ‘ the story of Christ is simply a true myth : a myth working on us in the same way as the others , but with this tremendous difference that it really happened : and one must be content to accept it in the same way . ’
16 ‘ It 's because she has the evidence that it really happened , ’ Stevie explained to Patrick .
17 All I do know is that it truly happened . ’
18 Sharing a home with relatives ( other than parents ) before marriage is another phenomenon which was more common in the past than in the present ( Anderson , 1971 ; 1980 ) Very little is known about circumstances under which young people now may go to live with a non-parental relative , although Gill Jones ( 1987 ) has shown that it still happens for a substantial number , especially those designated as working class on occupational criteria .
19 It helped enormously that he also happened to enjoy affairs with women , and that when he was acting on stage , his sexual proclivities were not such a problem as he was less in the public eye .
20 More money may yet be found , but so complex is the investigation that what really happened to all of the cash may never be discovered .
21 However , he said , even a cursory look at the figures showed that what really happened was not so much that Scotland had gained but the rest of the country was now becoming stuck in the kind of economic mess that Scotland had endured since 1979 .
22 We know however that what actually happens is that the anxiety only ever reaches a certain level and then levels off , forming a plateau .
23 Cole adds that what actually happened when the Pioneers engaged in production was not what they had intended when they started their co-operative ; and goes on to offer a more detailed explanation : The Rochdale Manufacturing Society was set up in 1854 , Supposing that , as an expression of democracy , Co-operative principles are as valid for the producer working in the factory producing goods for sale in the Co-operative store as they are for the consumer buying them there , a newcomer to the story might find it surprising that the Pioneers ' belief is presented , if not itself as a matter for surprise , then certainly one for explanation .
24 And this this we see , it 's er quite interesting , this you notice this bit here is not plastered , and this has not got these dimples , so we think that what actually happened is when they first did this the the the the this bit of the window was blocked up with wood or wattle and daub or something like that , and so it was a a a and then when then when the vestry came down this these stones were put in here to block it up again .
25 So just keep telling yourself beforehand that whatever else happens , you are going to be the sole runner among the 25,000 who resolutely sticks to his/her comfortable training pace from Mile One .
26 I suppose I 'd like to feel safe in the knowledge that whatever else happens to music , people will just keep listening .
27 She 'd packed her bags knowing that whatever else happened she had to go back home to find out from her mother just who her father was .
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