Example sentences of "just happen " in BNC.
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1 | If only a few cases were known , they could easily be the result of an animal just happening to die when in a remote spot . |
2 | By the time they walk down the street , just happening to bump into the gang of boys , they have got it all worked out . |
3 | ‘ With Jimmy just happening to be there ? ’ |
4 | Now we 've got to race against time again , this is not just happening in NUPE it 's happened all over and it 's gon na it 's happening in this union before it starts . |
5 | And you 're talking to your mate and it 's all just happening by magic . |
6 | And attacks quite deliberate , not just happening by accident . |
7 | I really , I really get the impression that there 's , there 's , it 's incredibly sort of nobody really knows what to do , you know , there 's this big turbulent thing just happening and people are very confused about the whole thing because the M May the fourth directive is n't particularly er it did n't give anybody an absolute guideline , guide to erm what to do . |
8 | It really did n't feel like it was such big stuff , it was just happening to me and I believed I was going to be all right . |
9 | This is n't for any covert reason , it just happens that most of the BBC 's committee rooms are down there ! |
10 | This house was indeed built for a gentleman — it just happens to be on an almost miniature scale . |
11 | So that a large part of every day is not determined by thought at all , it more or less just happens because of habit . |
12 | I know that 's very boring of me , but it just happens to be true , my dear . |
13 | They are the closest thing to a random selection of books printed in English that anyone might find in any shop , a fair sample of our literature which just happens to have been discarded as worthless . |
14 | For example , it is more convenient to believe that your behaviour ‘ just happens ’ because this absolves you from having the responsibilities that accompany choice . |
15 | During the 1970s several teams attempted to refute this claim , arguing that the connection is a figment of Arp 's imagination , that it is an optical illusion caused by the overlap of isophotes ( light contours ) from the two objects , or that it is an illusion caused by a star or galaxy which just happens to be located between the two objects . |
16 | His argument is that the density wave is of a different kind , the so called long wave mode , which propagates from the centre of the Galaxy outward , such a wave pattern rotates much more rapidly than the short wave mode and it just happens that , if this picture is correct , our Solar System is almost exactly at the place in our Galaxy where it orbits at the same speed as the wave ( Astrophysics and Space Science , vol 89 , p 61 ) . |
17 | We sometimes surprise ourselves as well as our near and dear ones by suddenly exploding into unreasonable anger over a trifling offence which just happens to be the last straw that breaks the camel 's back . |
18 | It just happens to be legal . ’ |
19 | → I do n't think that our look at the Carlton Combo was anything other than a fair , unbiased review of a new product which just happens to incorporate a different technology along the way . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | We shall be considering The Prelude as a poem at the appropriate point in the Critical Survey ; for the moment I propose to refer to it simply as evidence of Wordsworth 's internal struggles and preoccupations , as if it were a diary or a letter to a friend which just happens to be in verse . |
22 | ‘ Love is something that just happens , I dare say . ’ |
23 | ‘ No one fixes heating Outside , it just happens , ’ said Angalo . |
24 | And it just happens that Digital is the only company to make it work . |
25 | It just happens that Digital is the only company to make it work . |
26 | Little just happens : most events earn a ‘ wow ! ’ for their wild synchronicity . |
27 | Unless , of course , it just happens to be a Japanese burglar . |
28 | DARREN FERGUSON has won over his biggest critic — Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson , who also just happens to be his dad . |
29 | ‘ I happen to believe variety is the spice of life , it just happens to be that women end up victimising themselves a lot , or subjecting themselves to a lot of bullshit to get some sort of coverage . |
30 | When these result in avoidable death , and they do , then it could be anyone who just happens to be there — employees , consumers , ordinary citizens . |