Example sentences of "it happen to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this generation it happens to be me . |
| 2 | But then again , how is the individual management to know if it happens to be one of those which ought to acknowledge a responsibility to maintain or lower prices , or whether it is one of the lucky ones which can be let off that responsibility ? |
| 3 | It happens to be the case that we can not , in our language , refer to the sensible properties of a thing without introducing a word or phrase which appears to stand for the thing itself as opposed to anything which may be said about it . |
| 4 | I suppose that 's what every candidate thinks but in my case it happens to be true . |
| 5 | It happens to be part of a small chain of hotels , but you can ignore the broader aspects of the company 's activities for the purposes of this particular case and treat it simply as a problem in unit management . |
| 6 | Although Uaru are not noted for equipment bashing , they have been known to move it gently aside , or even to spawn on it if it happens to be in their chosen spot . |
| 7 | Thus free enterprise — the pursuit of fair profit , the generator of wealth and employment , the backbone on which social welfare is possible — can be viewed , at least by corporate officials , as the primary ethic for and of an industrial society , and conformity to this neutralizes any obedience to the law merely because it happens to be the law . |
| 8 | I hope that the succeeding chapters will go at least some way towards building flesh and sinew , face and character — even if it happens to be , as on Tafahi island , a North German face and character — on to the dry , lifeless bones of economists ' figures . |
| 9 | There is one summit , however , that can be attained by red-blooded fellwalkers and , by great good fortune , it happens to be a magnificent belvedere for appraising the surroundings . |
| 10 | If changes in conditions disrupt the precise replication of parental characters so as to yield hereditary variation , then , providing only that some of it happens to be adaptive , this will suffice in the long run for selection as a cause of adaptive species formations . |
| 11 | That approach builds teamwork and self-reliance and far from being a cost to the company is a benefit — unless it happens to be the kind of company that requires its employees to operate as autonomous automata . |
| 12 | Which would seem to suggest that old-fashioned good singing is good , no matter what register it happens to be in . |
| 13 | Together with the Fifth , it happens to be my favourite of the symphonies . |
| 14 | Because it also happens , it happens to be the case that in local elections people tend to vote on national issues or perceptions . |
| 15 | ‘ History is going to be my subject — modern history — Of course it 's a frightfully easy degree , but it happens to be what I 'm most interested in ’ ( even as she was uttering the words she was aghast ) , ‘ that , and literature naturally , and political journalism . ’ |
| 16 | Inorganic pollution is not harmful to aquatic life to the same extent , unless it happens to be toxic ; thus its consequences are frequently less evident . |
| 17 | And in a sense it happens to be English language and English literature that I teach , but I do n't really think I 'm teaching that , what I 'm doing is helping people to think , hopefully , and have ideas and excite them about ideas and think about themselves and the way they live . |
| 18 | ‘ I know it may sound corny , but it happens to be true . |
| 19 | Now I 'd like to thing that an equal amount of effort can work more in our favour if it happens to be channelled towards a specific competition . ’ |
| 20 | It happens to be a matter of principle . |
| 21 | Perhaps you find that hard to believe , but it happens to be true . |
| 22 | The income from it is then the wife 's , therefore , if it happens to be three four four five , it is completely free of tax , whereas left with the husband would be taxed . |
| 23 | Adam may have extended the invitation , but it happens to be my house . ’ |
| 24 | Well I marked that certain tank and I put it in in a sealed envelope to the police station and I said I do n't know which tank they said whoever 's emptied it has done , but I said , If it happens to be that tank then they are lying . |
| 25 | Even a broken worm can kill , if it happens to be an adder . |
| 26 | Being too drunk to get yourself home safely , sleeping wherever there 's a bed — no matter whose it happens to be … ’ |
| 27 | It happens to be the truth . |
| 28 | At the most distant property there are shearers ’ quarters which enable us to have the use of hot showers , and shelter for the barbecue if it happens to be raining . |
| 29 | It happens to be worse than that — Oh , it is . |
| 30 | There 's a moment before the traffic and travel news now for me to remind you that erm if you 're the chairman or the secretary or whatever it happens to be of a particular group whether it be erm the local amateur dramatics society or er a North Yorkshire charity and you 'd like the opportunity to have some prime time publicity for what you 're doing , particularly in the run-up to the Christmas period |