Example sentences of "[noun] they happen to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that 's a lot of dead people … and innocent people , whichever side they happen to be on . ’ |
| 2 | The decoders here are just non-linear functions , they 're just binary non-linear functions they happen to be but they 're non-linear . |
| 3 | Malcolm Rifkind , the Defence Secretary , intervened to say the army believed it would be ‘ grossly invidious for the choice of soldiers for redundancy to depend on whether at any given moment they happened to be serving in Northern Ireland , Bosnia , the UK or elsewhere ’ . |
| 4 | And whichever sort they happen to be , they always think they 're the first of their kind . |
| 5 | ( By the way , in case they happen to be reading this , my apologies to Phillip , Mary , Harold and Henry for taking their names in vain ! ) |
| 6 | They had an interest in playing golf together so specifically formed a society giving it the name of the road they happened to be in at the time — Worple Way , Harrow . |
| 7 | Calls will be linked automatically to the first available Samaritan volunteer , whatever part of the country they happen to be in . |