Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] happen to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I interpret it that erm parents saw that they were being asked to do something false , and if I can just correct you on something , these were n't the Governors ' proposals to seek opting out , they were the proposals of a group of parents , some of whom happen to be parent-Governors , but when the Governors themselves came to vote on whether we thought |
| 2 | Would n't you agree that in normal day to day language if we see a line of cars going down a road and one of them happens to be a Rolls Royce we would say , that 's the quality car ? |
| 3 | It is irrelevant that some of them happen to be ‘ beetle genes ’ , while others happen to be ‘ bacterial genes ’ . |
| 4 | But the private world , where people look for both their pleasure and their fulfilment , is a competing world of separate group allegiances , some of which happen to be religious . |
| 5 | If any of you happen to be professional philosophers , you will certainly have had this experience in your , in society , you 're asked what you do , and if you make that admission , a slightly lunatic thing happens . |
| 6 | Minor misdemeanours can place her in a position of great vulnerability , subject to the whim of whoever happens to be on duty , and institutional life , by definition , is less flexible , less forgiving , than the ‘ normal family ’ home . |
| 7 | Daak was always the same : without reference to the-creed , colour , gender or opinions of whoever happened to be around , he was rude , randy , rebellious and always ready for a fight . |
| 8 | If changes in conditions disrupt the precise replication of parental characters so as to yield hereditary variation , then , providing only that some of it happens to be adaptive , this will suffice in the long run for selection as a cause of adaptive species formations . |
| 9 | To reiterate the point just made , this is not an argument about the functional necessity for all societies to have a category of ‘ crime ’ but an argument about the positive qualities of what happens to be defined as crime under capitalism ; indeed , the argument is usually combined with the assumption that under socialism there would be no such thing as crime . |
| 10 | The divisions were arbitrary , mainly depending upon who happened to be where when the fighting stopped . |
| 11 | Yes certainly in the late nineteen eighties , more houses were built in one particular year , depend depending on which part of the country you 're in it happens to be different years . |
| 12 | The composition of a team depends on who happens to be doing what at the time . |
| 13 | These hospitals were funded by Iran to treat battle casualties — Hezbollah , Amal militiamen and Syrian troops , depending on who happened to be fighting whom at the time — and they were ideal places for holding hostages . |
| 14 | His intention was to show that the interpretation of Scripture was too complex to be left to whoever happened to be reading it . |
| 15 | And your whole mind concentrated on what happens to be concerning them . |
| 16 | Conversely , where , as in the case of China , sources were remote , the type of jade most commonly used at any particular juncture depended on what happened to be most readily accessible at the time . |