Example sentences of "[Wh det] happens " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when they see an apparent egg that is really a stone , the fact of its being a stone ( not that they have found a stone on the beach , say , which happens to look just like an egg ) swamps their judgement ; similarly when they see a white card changing colour — the blueness is salient not the fact that it started white . |
| 2 | We recently did a simple experiment which happens to illustrate how children 's knowledge of where an object is determines their behaviour . |
| 3 | And over the whole six-year period 1979-85 the average growth of M3 was 13 per cent , which happens to be exactly the same as it was between 1965 and 1973 , the period analysed by William Rees-Mogg in his famous article in The Times ( 13 June 1976 ) , ‘ How a 9.4 per cent excess money supply gave Britain 9.4 per cent inflation ’ , which denounced the conduct of economic policy in the early Seventies . |
| 4 | King : Which happens , as you know , to be my age . |
| 5 | Last week 's ‘ new cruzados ’ , ravaged by inflation , are blocked and replaced by cruzeiros ( which happens to be what the currency was called up till 1986 ) . |
| 6 | Similarly , other experts say that the peak in testosterone which happens in women around mid-cycle when they are ovulating — and the very time they are likely to get pregnant — is very slight and unlikely to result in your pursuing your mate with greater passion . |
| 7 | Any significant stroke or head injury which happens to a person within a marriage , friendship or family situation alters your possible future plans as well as your day-to-day life . |
| 8 | This is often an unintentional form of steering which happens when the sail is not at the correct angle to the wind — the section of the sail next to the mast does not fill with wind and the driving force acts from a couple of feet farther back . |
| 9 | It collapses onto the ground , which happens to be a deep pile of manure , and it lies there until it is trampled to death by the other cows which are milling continually around it . |
| 10 | There is no need to allocate a copy of a book to a service point which happens to receive one or two reservations for it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A gradual change or deterioration of each of the body 's systems which happens to everyone between childhood and old age . |
| 13 | The ideal , preferred temperature for feline food is 86°F , which happens to be the same temperature as the cat 's tongue . |
| 14 | I never got beyond the moment he sets eyes on him , which happens at the top of the second page . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , son — love is a very special thing which happens between a drummer and six or seven groupies ’ |
| 16 | Unfortunately , the Cane Toad does n't warrant inclusion , because anybody who scrapes the skin off the toad would find themselves in possession of a substance called Bufotenine , which happens to be listed as a Class A drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | His concept of the press was very close to the soviet-communist view outlined above , in which the ruling party knows what truth is and falsehood equals anything which happens to challenge that view . |
| 19 | The ever recurring explosion of colour in flowers and fruit , the festival of Harvest , the gathering and preserving of fruit and flowers , the lovely golden days followed by long-drawn-out misty coloured twilight — which happens every year but is always new — and above all , REAL clothes , not just little bits of summer nonsense , but really interesting clothes and shapes . |
| 20 | Only if it means ‘ Because it is presenting a larger appearance ’ is it to give an answer , one which happens to be wrong . |
| 21 | Furthermore , since learning is something which happens to the individual and not to the group , the value of the individual to the group should be stressed . |
| 22 | It is something which happens in Fred 's head . |
| 23 | Figure 3 a shows the consequent symmetrical pattern 30 time-steps later , and Fig. 3 b , c and d shows three successive patterns at t= 217 , 219 and 221 after the pattern has reached the boundary ( which happens at t= 49 ) . |
| 24 | Is there any reason to suppose that individual decisions on family size will result in an average which happens to be the replacement rate ? |
| 25 | Such communication may be concerned with anything and everything which happens within and around that organisation . |
| 26 | In fact almost everything which happens within your organisation could be of interest to the right publication . |
| 27 | So a Gettier counter-example is one in which a has a justified but false belief by inference from which he justifiably believes something which happens to be true , and so arrives at a justified true belief which is not knowledge . |
| 28 | The first piece , which happens to consist of five correct sentences , one spoken to me , and the rest written on objects and on pages around me , simply does not make sense . |
| 29 | ( Spoken discourse , which happens in time only , poses different problems and is dealt with in 10 . ) |
| 30 | What we shall do instead is to restrict the definition to one selected sentence type which happens to work , namely , that represented by the schema A is f(X) , where f(X) is an indefinite expression , and represents the minimum syntactic elaboration of a lexical item X for it to function as a complement of the verb to be . |