Example sentences of "as it happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Marquis of Queensberry may be judged , in this context , to have made an involuntary and uncharacteristic joke in accusing Wilde of ‘ posing as a somdomite ’ : a phrase that smells of the multiple self , and of the uncertainty of interpretation — and indeed spelling ( Ackroyd , as it happens , interprets him as something other than a sodomite ) . |
| 2 | The same description would not , in my view , be grossly inapplicable to the present ruler of Poland — which has , as it happens , a smaller population than the Ethiopia of chronic famine . |
| 3 | Hamlet kills his good old guy , as it happens . |
| 4 | As it happens . |
| 5 | These places are not , as the phrase goes , a million miles away from Berkeley and Birmingham respectively ( each of whose campuses is dominated , as it happens , by a tower copied from the Palazzo Publico at Sienna ; in the novel these are transformed to upright versions of the Leaning Tower of Pisa ) . |
| 6 | As it happens , the problems of an unstaged Porgy are hardly less acute — a cast of 24 soloists and a duration of three and a quarter hours are not easily managed in the concert hall . |
| 7 | But they could equally well deem Mr Lo 's proposals to enjoy popular support — since Mr Lo is , as it happens , vice-chairman of China 's own Basic Law Consultative Committee — and adopt those instead . |
| 8 | As it happens , it was Geordie in origin but it might equally well have been Liverpool or Sheffield . |
| 9 | A trick question : as it happens it appears on a sort of in-between track . |
| 10 | As it happens , he paces himself much better than Corbett and other stand-up comics , and in his own sober way milks the material ruthlessly . |
| 11 | As it happens , intervention might at least have tided the Government through the Conservative Party conference had the Bundesbank not intervened . |
| 12 | As it happens , there is a kind of logic behind Buddy . |
| 13 | I had , as it happens , had experience just before Westland of another very well-known public company — John Brown — which had encountered difficulties . |
| 14 | Small wonder , really , since he looks like a rock star — of the Bon Jovi ilk , as it happens . |
| 15 | The American Privacy Foundation , as it happens . |
| 16 | As it happens , there is one . |
| 17 | Soul for them was a form of exertion ; performance that Barney Hoskyns called ( in reference to The Jam , as it happens ) ‘ a gymnasium of exhortation ’ . |
| 18 | He can account for his movements , as it happens . |
| 19 | ‘ Everything 's more difficult these days , ’ grumbles a bed-ridden pensioner in a Chilean film ; and although , as it happens , he is referring to that day 's crossword , the comment itself speaks volumes . |
| 20 | As it happens , the Americans are partly responsible for the building firms ' good fortune . |
| 21 | One of the biggest economic changes of the past 60 years — prompted , as it happens , by the 1930s depression — has been the steady rise of taxes and government spending in relation to national income . |
| 22 | Such a device can be used to study the quality of electroplated metal films or to investigate corrosion as it happens . |
| 23 | And the form of drug they had indeed been taking — a legal drug , as it happens , called alcohol — is under attack from the surgeon-general . |
| 24 | In the nineteenth century , it was possible to see female castration as a cure , just as it happens these days that women request cosmetic surgery to make their genitalia look ‘ more tidy ’ . |
| 25 | Any road , one day , when the lad was seven years old … it was his birthday , as it happens … |
| 26 | ‘ I have , as it happens , ’ Stanley said . |
| 27 | Just write it all as it happens . |
| 28 | As it happens , I do n't think I 'm the right person to lead humanity into the future , no . |
| 29 | As it happens , the telephone does not appear to be working . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , there are clear signs of the continued exemption of Hitler from blame and the belief — as it happens not altogether misplaced in this particular case — that he had had nothing to do with the ‘ action ’ and would disapprove of it . |