Example sentences of "happened [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says he completely failed to understand the Palestinian revolution ( p. 3 ) , that he could never completely identity with the nation or their movement ( p. 90 ) , that he participated for fun ( p. 9 ) , that his record of what happened is inaccurate ( p. 19 ) , that writing itself is a lie ( p. 27 ) and memory unreliable ( p. 39 ) . |
| 2 | Exactly what happened is not known for certain , but the most likely scenario is that Crabb was intercepted by Russian frogmen and taken on board the Ordzhonikidze through a ‘ wet chamber ’ . |
| 3 | What happened is indisputable : students , and the institutions to which they belonged , acquired a bad name universally . |
| 4 | The first thing to say about what happened is that it was Dennis 's idea from the start . |
| 5 | What happened is not clear , but it seems the moran displayed a certain lack of enthusiasm : ‘ in the conditions prevailing one week saw the limit of their usefulness ’ , was the cryptic summary of the Kajiado DO . |
| 6 | Exactly how this happened is intriguing . |
| 7 | What actually happened is that my Group said simply that our proposals for 11 to 16 year olds were built on our work for the primary stages , and that it would be absurd for us to bring out our second Report if its proposals were out of tune with the earlier attainment targets . |
| 8 | With Eärendil , what happened is that Tolkien was initially struck by several lines from an Old English poem in the Exeter Book , now known as Christ I or The Advent Lyrics : |
| 9 | QUITE HOW it happened is open to public conjecture , but from being ‘ just another band ’ a few milliseconds back , the sumptuous , swaggering pearls of suave currently referred to as Suede today find themselves the red-hottest property on a lukewarm market . |
| 10 | What happened is recorded as a statistic . |
| 11 | How this happened is the subject of this chapter . |
| 12 | His version of the ‘ reality ’ of what happened is that : ‘ In 499 BC Athens sent half her fleet to help the Ionians fight the Persians . |
| 13 | But whether or not it is a completely accurate report of what actually happened is perhaps not the point . |
| 14 | What really happened is anyone 's guess but afterwards each accused the other of cheating . |
| 15 | But that something like this happened is very probable . |
| 16 | So what happened is that the literate women arranged their time so that every day they now have an hour set by to sit down with one of the illiterates and that 's how the literacy campaign is operating at the moment . |
| 17 | What happened is not in dispute ; why it happened has never been properly explained . |
| 18 | So important a part of our story does Macmillan 's visit to the north become that we must deal with it in some detail , and our main contemporary source for what happened is Macmillan 's own diary entries of the time for 12 and 13 May . |
| 19 | All that happened is that the electric field drew some charges to the surface of the dielectric which caused then some additional charges to appear on the surface of the conductor . |
| 20 | But what er what happened is when they rebuilt this building in the fifteenth century the masons found these and reused them reset them inside because they 'd lost their significance in over the three hundred years , so but they were useful structural er things . |
| 21 | And this this we see , it 's er quite interesting , this you notice this bit here is not plastered , and this has not got these dimples , so we think that what actually happened is when they first did this the the the the this bit of the window was blocked up with wood or wattle and daub or something like that , and so it was a a a and then when then when the vestry came down this these stones were put in here to block it up again . |
| 22 | " Tam , because your responsibility for what happened is not so great as Kim 's , you and your sister will kneel in the corner of this room for one hour with your faces to the wall . |
| 23 | Precisely what happened is not clear , as chronicle accounts vary , but is seems that Tany and his men advanced inland some distance , and then returned to the bridge of boats . |
| 24 | " What happened is what always happens . |
| 25 | ‘ All that happened is that I over-reacted , ’ he said at last , after a very long pause . |
| 26 | But our guy very I mean basically what happened is our guy waited till a senior officer went into the the screen |
| 27 | What happened is instructive about the attitude of the Government . |
| 28 | Now apparently what happened is I went up to him and said look I might have to do something with it . |
| 29 | Well as far as we can work out what actually happened is is the referee does give a free kick for this back pass there . |
| 30 | Gregory 's account of what actually happened is laconic in the extreme . |