Example sentences of "happen [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , thanks both to Daimler 's bad luck and bad judgment , the odds against this ever happening are high — and getting higher . |
| 2 | The damage done can be much worse than from a fire — while the chances of it happening are much higher . |
| 3 | So the sort of things that are happening are happening everywhere and community care I think could be probably one of the areas that I could talk about at some length if you wanted to later on . |
| 4 | The odds against it happening are astronomical , but if it does , then so are the winnings . |
| 5 | I could n't swear that a thalidomide sort of accident will never happen again , but the chance of it happening are much less . |
| 6 | It does raise a very important matter because in the B C C I inquiry , it was quite obvious er that parts of Price Waterhouse were n't fully aware of what other parts of Pri Price Waterhouse were doing and indeed worse than that and in fairness to Price Waterhouse , some of the regulators in different parts of the world did n't know what each other w w were doing and the only people that did know what was happening were the principals behind B C C I who exploited that situation . |
| 7 | What 's happening is that I have a reason for rising , for living , for laughing . |
| 8 | The Unionist MP Ken Maginnis , a former UDR member , said : ‘ What I hope is not happening is that people who — as I would have had in my time — had montages for lawful and necessary purposes will be made scapegoats . ’ |
| 9 | What is happening is the discovery that a new method has made its appearance . |
| 10 | So what 's happening is a lot of rumour out there and a lot of people who think that this is a wonderful opportunity to make ten per cent on the deal . |
| 11 | What is happening is that car-owning families are buying another . |
| 12 | However , the degree to which this is actually happening is minimal . |
| 13 | What I think is happening is that a big shoal has moved into the swim ; a very hungry shoal of bream that behave very much like chickens . |
| 14 | When we are hurt by someone 's behaviour , all that is happening is that we are disappointed because they do not behave in the way we expect and the reality conflicts with our ideals . |
| 15 | What is happening is that two bones in the body are being pulled together and are wearing each other out . |
| 16 | In reality what has been happening is that humanity , driven by the inexorable power of the primordial desire for earthly happiness , has been producing a constant stream of decisions from which the good , which will ultimately help with the building of the Created God , have been extracted . |
| 17 | All that is happening is that the story is taken over at various points by each of the members of the cast . |
| 18 | What 's probably happening is that you are trying to tell them you are annoyed but also saying you still want them to like you at the same time . |
| 19 | The best way to understand what is happening is to make a manual slip pattern on the machine , before we move on to electronic patterning . |
| 20 | ‘ Some argue that what is happening is a form of direct killing . |
| 21 | A lot of the times what is really happening is that people are being put into artificial jobs . |
| 22 | What is happening is that women have shown their competence in practice and this has helped to change machista attitudes . |
| 23 | Go alt N and you can see what 's happening is your text is actually being indented one tab stop at a time so it ends up as a narrow thin ribbon of text skating down the page and if you do this really crazily you can end up with a document that is only just one word wide ! |
| 24 | Now the blue flames are What 's happening is this , there 's two reactions taking place in that coke fire . |
| 25 | And what seems to be happening is that we 're gradually remembering people we know in other regions and |
| 26 | And yes , it should concern you because what is happening is that our transports are disappearing . |
| 27 | What is happening is that the English rural landscape is slowly becoming divided into three major types in the lowlands . |
| 28 | But what is happening is that private care is beginning to recreate some of the practices that the statutory authorities have been working away from . |
| 29 | Keep the joint , what 's happening is the the the smooth side is starting to get a wee bit rough and if you can keep that rubbing off the other bone it smooths it down . |
| 30 | Yet already the urgent need to know what is happening is fading . |