Example sentences of "happen to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes you will not mind this too much : the freedom to shoot in whatever light happens to be available can outweigh these shortcomings . |
| 2 | Are you , the haulier , agreeing , for example , to supply a particular vehicle for haulage or to supply any lorry which happens to be available at the time the contract needs to be undertaken ? |
| 3 | ( I am reminded of a passage in a book by Doris Lessing , where she says : ‘ I want this court to condemn Volyen utterly , root and branch , for failing to instruct its young in the rules that its own psychologists and anthropologists have extracted from research and study : for failing to arm its youth with information that would enable it — the youth — to resist being swept away with any system of ideas that happens to be available ’ . ) |
| 4 | ‘ As your property happens to be slap-bang in the middle of our site , it seemed like common sense to discover what went on here . |
| 5 | Because Linnaeus worked in western Europe , it tends to be the European form which is seen as typical in this sense ; and of course it is accidental which species in a group happens to be first described and hence seen as typical . |
| 6 | It is just that the structure of the viral RNA happens to be such that it makes cellular machinery chum out copies of itself . |
| 7 | " Because spinach happens to be good for her and because I say so . " |
| 8 | and let's say it 's erm this particular example we 've chosen happens to be sixty degrees . |
| 9 | While he can usually be relied upon to offend whichever sacred cows the liberal consensus happens to be grazing , the satirical armoury has shown dismaying signs of fatigue . |
| 10 | It happens to be worse than that — Oh , it is . |
| 11 | It just happens to be legal . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | All that 's stopping him being welcomed into the great freemasonry of the over-fifties is that he happens to be thirty-two . |
| 14 | The mother who ‘ ca n't be so cruel ’ as to wake her sleeping baby if he happens to be asleep at the appointed feeding-time , fails to realize that a few such wakings would be all she would have to resort to … |
| 15 | Now what , what was left was a guideline for economic development other , of sixty five thousand , which happens to be equivalent to pollution prevention schemes at one , but was certainly not earmarked to anything in particular , it was just a guideline that they were thinking of , and I , I think it would be a help to Policy Panel and Policy and Resources Committee , to obtain a response to that non-identified sixty five thousand pound item . |
| 16 | One is that the figure of 300 per cent increase in productivity just happens to be that which would have had to occur to cost-justify the installation of CAD given capital and wage costs in the early 1980s in the UK when this figure gained currency . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | In the state of mind he 's in , he 'd rather put you in the workhouse than provide one penny towards bringing a child into the world whose father happens to be one of the Feltons . |
| 20 | This is fate because Barnet , you see , happens to be one of my most favourite places in the North . |
| 21 | Now this theme happens to be one of Webern 's most memorable instrumental conceptions , yet it is very elusive , probably because of its poorly defined rhythmic shape . |
| 22 | I think Alone In the Dark just happens to be one of those games . |
| 23 | It happens to be one more . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | An open question gives great freedom to respondents but we may get just what happens to be uppermost in their minds . |
| 26 | When the up to date fashion happens to be close fitting , then making a garment with a normal allowance for movement will be just right , but you will still need to add extra stitches to let the cables draw in . |
| 27 | It is big — but it also happens to be Japanese , and so presents a juicy target . |
| 28 | As I understand it the Cleveland structure plan proposes the same number of dwellings for erm its next period which happens to be fourteen years , as it did for the last fourteen of the of the previous structure plan , fifteen thousand seven hundred . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , this Meredith happens to be female , all the bits between the woolly hat and brown brogues , ’ she said wrily . |
| 30 | 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 . |