Example sentences of "it happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | So : where is it happening ? |
| 2 | I 'd like another one , actually , but I ca n't see it happening now . ’ |
| 3 | how can I prevent it happening again ? |
| 4 | I 'm just rather despairing about it happening . |
| 5 | Even if you decide you do n't have a problem now , it makes sense to do all you can to prevent it happening in the future . |
| 6 | Every aspect of the trip is analysed to see Where we went wrong and how we can prevent it happening next time . |
| 7 | There would be a public outcry to stop it happening . |
| 8 | ‘ But such anxiety will not stop it happening if the Soviet Union should ever allow it to happen or be unable to stop it happening ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ But such anxiety will not stop it happening if the Soviet Union should ever allow it to happen or be unable to stop it happening ’ . |
| 10 | The baby saw it happening but could do nothing to stop it , its pudgy fingers would not close tightly enough to grasp the string … . |
| 11 | Were they scared of it happening again ? |
| 12 | He could feel it happening , the lift of the sail , loose-set , acting as a vast kite . |
| 13 | I said ‘ Yes , but why is it happening ? |
| 14 | Yet at that moment in Forres , John Keith tried his best to stop it happening . |
| 15 | The damage done can be much worse than from a fire — while the chances of it happening are much higher . |
| 16 | What 's the use , for instance , of alarming sixty-odd people with a preview of the Aberfan disaster without telling them where it is , when it is going to happen , or how they can help to stop it happening ? |
| 17 | ‘ You see it happening all the time , the move around between the carer and the resident as to who is the adult and who is the child . |
| 18 | I certainly never pictured it as being the same operation acting on different pieces until I actually saw it happening on the cube . |
| 19 | I think that the other worrying feature about the potentially obsessive nature of programming is the point Dr Frude makes about it happening to people who are already ‘ introverted and socially inept ’ . |
| 20 | In his book , The Stress Myth , he contradicts the usual assumption that unwanted stress is an inevitable part of life and teaches that instead of looking for ways of dealing with it after it has occurred , we ourselves should take action to prevent it happening at all . |
| 21 | I have certainly heard of it happening in the present day , but the old methods are dying out as people become alienated from the countryside they live in . |
| 22 | how can I prevent it happening again ? |
| 23 | What will you do to prevent it happening ? |
| 24 | Mogg and Davidson are wrong in saying that governments are powerless to stop it happening again . |
| 25 | Obviously throwing a bucket of water over them is n't going to do a lot of good , so if there is a likelihood of it happening , you 'll need to be prepared . |
| 26 | Once you have cured the water pollution problem , you will have to take steps to avoid it happening again . |
| 27 | They 've been touring and doing the same thing for forty , fifty years and nothing has changed for them , and so I do n't think it 's a real resurgence in the US , but it 's great to see it happening over here . ’ |
| 28 | But , even after this year 's advances , it would still require the biggest swing to Labour since 1945 to achieve it : the odds remain stacked heavily against it happening . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd be quite interested in that but I ca n't see it happening here . |
| 30 | The chances against it happening must be a million to one . ’ |