Example sentences of "[adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is what is effectively happening in the scenario posed . |
| 2 | It interknits with that world of chances and mischances , improbable or absurd or grotesque or just neutrally happening as they do happen , which we meet everywhere in later Dostoevsky and specially in The Possessed . |
| 3 | But it 's only happening in some less developed countries . |
| 4 | Future generations will condemn us for inaction in the face of what is obviously happening in the world at present . |
| 5 | So something 's obviously happening . |
| 6 | Most of the , what has happened I think , over the last two and half years , that I 'm aware of , erm , is basically happening a long time before that , I , I ca n't say yes or no . |
| 7 | ‘ It ’ was all happening at sea . |
| 8 | This was all happening half a century ago , before the invention of the aqualung . |
| 9 | It was all happening to him , right there in a see-through plastic telephone nodule in the airport concourse with the crowds jostling and plaintive announcements coming over the Tannoy system , and the orange-juice machines gurgling and travellers humping suitcases about with those peculiarly tense expressions people always adopt prior to a long-haul flight . |
| 10 | It was all happening comfortably just as she wished . |
| 11 | Part of her mind , the cool , rational fragment , was insisting that it was all happening too fast and too soon . |
| 12 | It was all happening rather quickly and by now I 'm getting a little unsure myself . ’ |
| 13 | It was all happening too fast . |
| 14 | She never managed to meet up with Vivienne and , as there did n't seem to be much happening at Dingwalls , we decided to drive down to Brighton , all of us crammed into the back of the Mini van . |
| 15 | ( There was in truth not much happening in Fontanellato at this time , and although we heard news of the partisans we never knew where they were . ) |
| 16 | Everything 's seized up while the ground 's frozen — there wo n't be much happening there till spring now . |
| 17 | So much happening here at the moment as the ball was followed up by David he looked at the referee as er challenge him for the er shove inside the penalty area but the referee was unimpressed by that , Blackburn have already got one penalty here tonight from which they 've scored , Shrewsbury have scored from a penalty too and it 's the third division side still in the lead here by three goals to two . |
| 18 | No no , there are natural , we always have a strong preference for something but we can actually develop them , just like management style we have a strong preference for , for one style but it is something that we can learn can get more and try and rationale sort of like theoretical we can try and rationalize what 's perhaps happening is that in situations when we 're not gaining a lot and it could be that it 's because it 's had a lot of activity and we can actually gain more from it we can rationalize it and analyze it . |
| 19 | ’ But what basically happens is , if we see someone acting suspiciously in our store , we phone up a store in the next block and warn them , giving a description of the suspect . |
| 20 | However , he rejects this view on the ground that although the redness of a red object is not something which merely happens to look red to us , since a redness which did not look red would not be redness , nonetheless ‘ red ’ does not mean ‘ looks red ’ since only one who understands ‘ red ’ can know what ‘ looks red ’ means . |
| 21 | The Hyades , extending from the bright orange star Aldebaran in Taurus ( the Bull ) cover a much wider area than the Pleiades , and are also somewhat overpowered by Aldebaran , which does not actually belong to the cluster at all , but merely happens to lie about midway between the Hyades and ourselves . |
| 22 | Its distance is 130 light-years , so that Aldebaran is not a genuine member ; it merely happens to lie in between the Hyades and ourselves . |
| 23 | However when cheek meets apathy , nothing apparently happens . |
| 24 | That , as I said , all happens ( in my imagination , of course ) on the night before Sports Day . |
| 25 | Not much happens in the novel . |
| 26 | In the realm of healing much happens to authenticate Christ 's present will and power to heal the otherwise incurable , and yet , often distressingly , enough fails to happen to serve to remind us that we are not yet at the last day , and to leave the mystery of the ‘ not yet ’ all around us ’ ( Smail 1975:124 ) . |
| 27 | Much happens to the cloth before it is ready for use in a car . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | Why , why was n't it enough that out of every experience that I mean like not much happens to the back of your neck like that , that 's one thing that I 'd even think about , I mean I 'm not any kind of historian , but like , like anything like the back of the neck I would think of a guillotine also . |
| 30 | Not much happens in Yarm normally . ’ |