Example sentences of "happen [be] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's happening is that I have a reason for rising , for living , for laughing . |
| 2 | The Unionist MP Ken Maginnis , a former UDR member , said : ‘ What I hope is not happening is that people who — as I would have had in my time — had montages for lawful and necessary purposes will be made scapegoats . ’ |
| 3 | What I think is happening is that a big shoal has moved into the swim ; a very hungry shoal of bream that behave very much like chickens . |
| 4 | When we are hurt by someone 's behaviour , all that is happening is that we are disappointed because they do not behave in the way we expect and the reality conflicts with our ideals . |
| 5 | What is happening is that two bones in the body are being pulled together and are wearing each other out . |
| 6 | All that is happening is that the story is taken over at various points by each of the members of the cast . |
| 7 | What 's probably happening is that you are trying to tell them you are annoyed but also saying you still want them to like you at the same time . |
| 8 | A lot of the times what is really happening is that people are being put into artificial jobs . |
| 9 | What is happening is that women have shown their competence in practice and this has helped to change machista attitudes . |
| 10 | And what seems to be happening is that we 're gradually remembering people we know in other regions and |
| 11 | And yes , it should concern you because what is happening is that our transports are disappearing . |
| 12 | What is happening is that the English rural landscape is slowly becoming divided into three major types in the lowlands . |
| 13 | Our assessment has always been , and continues to be , of a very … complex kind , because what is happening is that people are getting feedback from us all by working with us . |
| 14 | ‘ What 's happening is that you 're being offered a way out . ’ |
| 15 | What is happening is that generally the Black movement for liberation is defined from a male perspective . |
| 16 | It 's erm in fact a quote from Wilson , the founder of Socio-biology , the mo in other words modern er Darwinism as oppo as , as a applied to animal behaviour and Wilson 's point in saying that sex is an anti-social force in evolution was to suggest that what is really happening is that if natural selection is a question of the reproductive success of individual genes , then individuals should be motivated to produce as many copies of those genes as they possibly can , and that will inevitably bring them into competition with other members of the species who wan na do exactly the same thing . |
| 17 | An outcome such as 4 raises A's utility to and B's to Intuitively , what is happening is that A 's loss of utility from the reduction of her own income is being more than compensated for by the knowledge that B 's income is also falling . |
| 18 | What seems to be happening is that Valerie is adopting a " Jamaican " persona in which irritation may be shown more freely ( but also , perhaps , less threateningly ) to a person 's face . |
| 19 | What I hope ( and would like to think ) is happening is that the children are aware of the onlookers , but that they 're making a choice to stay in role ; that their engagement with the issues and the problems of the drama is what is keeping them intent on their work . |
| 20 | Alright , and effectively what 's , what 's happening is that the government sectors in erm , in developing countries are very highly subsidized . |
| 21 | The point of issue is that estuary and coastal zone management is a reality and what seems to be happening is all sorts of different plans are popping up on various estuaries and Geoff knows them well now because he 's been involved with the one on the Stour and Orwell and what is happening is that these are starting at local level so the first contact with sailors may be from a local authority or someone at local level . |
| 22 | So you might find that if you do a thing on the H P you may find that what is being what 's happening is that it it it 's creating the wrong size addressings in the look up table because either it 's using you know , er signed and it 's su assuming unsigned byte or something . |
| 23 | Wh wi what should be happening is that each each trainee manager within each branch has an assessor within the branch who will be one of the deputy managers , they also have a mentor within the branch . |
| 24 | What is happening is that the old orthodoxies are being softened , rather than up-ended . |
| 25 | what 's happening is that the membership handbook should have been out last week but I think it 's actually going out physically today and I 've done a reminder which 'll be mailed out with it erm making one or two little pointed remarks about blah blah blah this is a very important event and please note it is not in Edinburgh you know erm S S K are very supportive of us we should you know take advantage of this very important |
| 26 | Is n't exactly what 's happening , I mean what , what 's happening is that if they ri erm increase rents or whatever , the people who , who ca n't pay that they get together and they demonstrate |
| 27 | How can that erm you know if man does n't destroy the world , well what 's happening is that every year the earth moves towards the sun one centimetre . |
| 28 | What is actually happening is that you also get a high tide on the other side of the globe as well like that . |
| 29 | Well the interesting thing which is happening is that we 're getting better at preventing these things happening . |
| 30 | But perhaps it 's , I mean you know what you 've always argued , the reason why it 's happening is because of increasing commercialization . |