Example sentences of "just happens " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is n't for any covert reason , it just happens that most of the BBC 's committee rooms are down there ! |
| 2 | This house was indeed built for a gentleman — it just happens to be on an almost miniature scale . |
| 3 | So that a large part of every day is not determined by thought at all , it more or less just happens because of habit . |
| 4 | I know that 's very boring of me , but it just happens to be true , my dear . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For example , it is more convenient to believe that your behaviour ‘ just happens ’ because this absolves you from having the responsibilities that accompany choice . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It just happens to be legal . ’ |
| 11 | → 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Love is something that just happens , I dare say . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ No one fixes heating Outside , it just happens , ’ said Angalo . |
| 16 | And it just happens that Digital is the only company to make it work . |
| 17 | It just happens that Digital is the only company to make it work . |
| 18 | Little just happens : most events earn a ‘ wow ! ’ for their wild synchronicity . |
| 19 | Unless , of course , it just happens to be a Japanese burglar . |
| 20 | DARREN FERGUSON has won over his biggest critic — Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson , who also just happens to be his dad . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | When these result in avoidable death , and they do , then it could be anyone who just happens to be there — employees , consumers , ordinary citizens . |
| 23 | Or just ( just ) four nights of gig madness in New York , that this year just happens to coincide not only with Halloween and the annual marathon — that 's 26 miles , not 26 bands a night — but the last weekend before the presidential elections ? |
| 24 | Something just happens … it 's not very often … once in every three weeks about … |
| 25 | Most philosophical systems of ethics , and most popular moralizing , are radically flawed because they recommend morality to us either as what it is in our own best ultimate interests to do , or alternatively try to promote it by appeal to our feelings , for example feelings of compassion , or ( like Hutcheson ) by reference to some kind of moral sentiment which just happens to be part of human nature . |
| 26 | A day 's golf with the president of this company or that company when the fellow who makes up the four and plays with the president of the corporation just happens to be last year 's Masters Champion . |
| 27 | In this case Sartre demonstrates how the singular universal works , by appealing to the concrete example of a boxing match — a random exemplification that just happens to reproduce the single adversaries of the master/slave dialectic . |
| 28 | The fact that the Wolof turn out to be less ‘ logical ’ when in their own environment than when in contact with European influences just happens to follow from the tests , whatever we might want to believe . |
| 29 | Many clients falsely assume that an extensive social network , involving family , friends and colleagues , just happens . |
| 30 | To this end , he has bought part of the disused airfield at Breighton , in North Humberside , set up a Clubhouse with excellent facilities , and employed some genuine craftsmen in the workshops to restore several lovely vintage aeroplanes which he just happens to have acquired . |