Example sentences of "that [pron] happens [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | In any other situation the worst thing that can occur is that nothing happens at all . |
2 | The former is of interest only in that she happens to be married to the gorgeous Richard Gere , who not only has ten times her talent but ten times her looks ( do people really find that hideous mole of hers attractive ? ) . |
3 | The fact that something happens to be legal as a matter of tradition going far back into history does not mean that it is not a vice in society . |
4 | Do you it 's amazing when he stops at a Happy Eater to have a fry-up , that there happens to be television cameras and the world 's press there . |
5 | One tries to explain that it happens on the odd occasion , at Question Time , which is not a great parliamentary occasion , and that is what the media pick up . |
6 | There is a striking analogy here with crystal growth , except that it happens in two dimensions , not three . |
7 | All that 's stopping him being welcomed into the great freemasonry of the over-fifties is that he happens to be thirty-two . |
8 | The evidence suggests ( Maxwell , 1977 ; DES 1975 , 1978 ) that what happens at this stage is very often simply copying . |
9 | Adie 's job grows ever harder because she is Britain 's best-known reporter , so that what happens to her is often a better story than the one she is covering . |
10 | By drawing in family members one is showing recognition that what happens to the vulnerable old person has an impact on others in the social support system . |
11 | The authors , writing in the British Medical Journal , believe that what happens to babies before birth , including how long they stay in the womb , may determine how healthy their lungs are later in life . |
12 | Erm , I agree with my colleagues for what 's been said , so I wo n't say any more about that , but it is the point that what happens to the capital receipts , in the future . |
13 | ‘ When you travel round the world , and being brought up in a family like mine , you learn that what happens on the field is actually very important to people elsewhere , and you feel , perhaps not so much a sense of responsibility , as a sense of focus in which people identify nationally for the best kind of reasons , and are made aware of who they are and what they came from . |
14 | Traditional psychology from Freud onwards has held that what happens in the earliest years of childhood can affect our later perceptions of ourselves . |
15 | But the most obvious fact about the social world is that what happens in it has meaning for the inhabitants . |
16 | They are , so to speak , tied to their own tail — an intriguing thought if one grants that what happens in the social world depends on what people expect to happen . |
17 | Firstly , it is difficult if not dangerous to argue that what happens in one case happens in all . |
18 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
19 | I think that what happens in a place like erm Kingston , or a place like Lewes from my observation is that the general aspirations , the pretensions , change . |
20 | The world seems to be getting smaller as more and more people realize that what happens in one country can affect others . |
21 | But the first requirement is for Mr Bush , who has the best bully pulpit from which to push for change , to show that whatever happens to oil prices he remains serious about fashioning an energy strategy . |
22 | I console myself with the thought that whatever happens to the ankles of others ( and there is no doubt that prettily turned item is a tremendous turn-on ) , mine are contemplated without the libido 's charging in with its usual tedious cries of ‘ Me , me , me ’ . |
23 | This means that you have the peace of mind of knowing that whatever happens to general interest rates , your return will remain the same . |
24 | Does the right hon. Gentleman realise that our competitors in Europe and elsewhere will ensure that whatever happens to future orders their defence industries will be compensated by alternative diversification ? |
25 | The one thing that even the anti-Maastricht rebels must realise is that whatever happens to the other countries of the Community affects Britain profoundly . |
26 | they do n't want to have some er official or or some management consultant who 's eager to get a job and get extra money paid for him by a dumb government department , if those people are going to tell us what sort of people we want on that on police authorities , I think it is total insolence and I trust that whatever happens to this Bill that that answer that was given on the 17th of January is removed and replaced by something else , if it has to be replaced at all . |
27 | ‘ I have to make sure that whatever happens by next Saturday night we will have done all we can . |
28 | And they interpret that as meaning that whatever happens in the money market exporters should still retain some of their current advantage . |