Example sentences of "happen [prep] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bribes to officials are part of the culture of some areas of the world ( and therefore necessary to obtain business ) , yet US citizens are forbidden by law to offer bribes to officials of foreign governments , no matter where in the world the citizen happens to be at the time . |
| 2 | The successful conclusion of my latest project — whatever that happens to be at the time . |
| 3 | Whatever the price happens to be at a given time , and this can vary dramatically , it will be a price worth paying for some and not for others . |
| 4 | Minor misdemeanours can place her in a position of great vulnerability , subject to the whim of whoever happens to be on duty , and institutional life , by definition , is less flexible , less forgiving , than the ‘ normal family ’ home . |
| 5 | This house was indeed built for a gentleman — it just happens to be on an almost miniature scale . |
| 6 | The last sentence of each of ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) is structurally ambiguous between putting some biscuits into a bowl which happens to be on the floor , and putting some biscuits , which happen to be in a bowl , on the floor . |
| 7 | If that happens to be on a piece , piece of paper and you want to keep your it might be a benefit to you later on . |
| 8 | The reason is that heads of chambers are not required to notify vacant tenancies to a central office , so that there can be fair competition for them ; the tenancy is given to the person who happens to be on the spot and who is acceptable , or to a relative of the head of chambers , or otherwise by favour . |
| 9 | Scabies , which is spread by physical contact and is particularly prevalent in institutions and schools , happens to be on a periodic upturn at the moment . |
| 10 | A white professor has apologised to one of his black lecturers ( who happens to be on the executive of the ANC ) for ‘ treating him as an academic lightweight ’ . |
| 11 | If you 're wearing the ear defenders when the supervisor comes round and happens to be on the token dishing out tour and you 're wearing them , you get your token , okay ? |
| 12 | I know , I know if I 've got a towel in mine or a big thing and , and it 's all happens to be on one side |
| 13 | That Ten happens to be on Friday night . |
| 14 | Er , when you 've finished with it , all I want is the token off the corner of the page it happens to be on the reverse side |
| 15 | ‘ Do you have such an inflated idea of your own sex appeal you think you can grab any woman who happens to be to hand ? ’ |
| 16 | You add on that fifty percent or whatever it happens to be to the hundred percent which gives you the new figure . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | The comment happens to be about the writer 's home station , but much of it might equally apply to numerous others . |
| 19 | The ‘ w ’ key happens to be beside the ‘ e ’ key and my finger happening to have struck it once , then struck it once more . |
| 20 | ‘ as if he only happens to be with us by accident and could just as easily be amusing himself at some other job elsewhere . ’ |
| 21 | Well I think er what I 'll do because Stuart who 's the C E O rather happens to be with us er I think I 'll ask Stuart if he would like to make a few remarks . |
| 22 | Nor is it foul temper which vents itself indiscriminately on anyone who happens to be within range . |
| 23 | Among the extra work which required a special piece of plant to be brought onto the site for one week and then returned 200 miles , there must be some extra work which just happens to be within the scope of a piece of plant which is already on site which would otherwise have been idle during the week in question . |
| 24 | It would mean you see me as a woman who happens to be in science , and not as a scientist . |
| 25 | It has some fine Renaissance ceilings on the second floor although these are under lock and key and can not be seen unless the keyholder happens to be in the museum that day . |
| 26 | What the mother finally decides to do will probably result from the opinion of someone else — whether that someone is her own mother , the local midwife or whichever childcare expert happens to be in vogue at the time . |
| 27 | The breed is unusual , and perhaps unique among cattle , in its grazing habits : it is quite without discrimination and leaves a level swathe through mixed grass , clover and weeds , eating whatever happens to be in front of its muzzle . |
| 28 | He is , of course , the corporation 's watcher of science ( along with medicine , aerospace , and aviation , not to mention street sieges when he happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time ) for radio 's news department . |
| 29 | We shall be considering The Prelude as a poem at the appropriate point in the Critical Survey ; for the moment I propose to refer to it simply as evidence of Wordsworth 's internal struggles and preoccupations , as if it were a diary or a letter to a friend which just happens to be in verse . |
| 30 | 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 . |