Example sentences of "as it happened " in BNC.
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| 1 | This wanting teased him on as it happened — contingent naturalism — to murder . |
| 2 | As it happened , the gamble paid off handsomely . |
| 3 | In April 1979 , on the eve of a British general election as it happened , Bishop Muzorewa 's United African Council received more than 60 per cent of the votes in a general election , and the Methodist Bishop became Prime Minister of ‘ Zimbabwe-Rhodesia ’ , although in the face of the opposition of the Nkomo/Mugabe forces . |
| 4 | As it happened , largely because of a world-wide expansion in trade , the British economy advanced considerably down to 1987 . |
| 5 | As it happened , the Great War intervened and provided the Conservatives with an opportunity to confirm what had been an uncertain trend towards a reshaping and consolidation of the right . |
| 6 | The idea behind trying to get together with Imperial was to create a world-size food company with , as it happened , tobacco money to back it up , because the cashflow from tobacco is much more than the tobacco business actually requires to sustain it . |
| 7 | As it happened , the ritual of Magdalen chapel was ‘ Low Church ’ and that of the Headington Quarry church was ‘ High ’ . |
| 8 | They , guided by the strong impression in ‘ literary ’ circles that Chambers was an old bore and Fox was a non-starter , put up their own candidate , Lord David Cecil , a friend of Lewis 's , as it happened , and the English tutor at New College . |
| 9 | The practice does take place in the Church of Ireland , though as it happened , it did not seem to have come Lewis 's way at St Mark 's , Dundela . |
| 10 | ‘ As a problem , it 's a media invention , and , as it happened , the media chose a leader for us — Sara Parkin . |
| 11 | The last of the elections took place on April 21st , delivering , as it happened , a handsome victory across the country for candidates backed by the Liberal Democrats , and defeat for the socialists . |
| 12 | As it happened that could not have worked out better . |
| 13 | Makowka , as it happened , had worked on the Finding , but he and North were strangers to each other ; he was amazed that ‘ he would be mentioning something as sensitive as that in this sort of context ’ . |
| 14 | The memorandum turned up when they were about three folders into the search ; North , as it happened , had not arrived yet . |
| 15 | As it happened , a few sweet dozes over the next couple of days was enough to restore my vitality . |
| 16 | She did not sing at all , as it happened , but there were plenty of singers there . |
| 17 | Many players , as it happened , were coming near to the age of retirement , so it was possible over a period of six or seven years to make the orchestra young again . |
| 18 | Captain Awud then presented the candidates for the first committee — as it happened , the development committee . |
| 19 | As it happened , the links he had remade were with the Magharba in Ajdabiya . |
| 20 | I remembered what you 'd said about settling down , and as it happened I met a very nice young man from Berlin , a train driver . |
| 21 | As it happened , the death of her husband after a brief period as king of France , and Mary 's failure to find a replacement in the royal houses of France or Spain , forced her back to Scotland . |
| 22 | As it happened , the Stewart kings between 1406 and 1542 had married wives of considerable personality and , except in the case of Margaret Tudor , skill ; in the power-sharing between Mary of Gueldres , widow of James II , and the then elder statesman , James Kennedy , bishop of St Andrews , during the early years of James III 's minority , for example , it was the Queen Mother who pursued a much more intelligent foreign policy towards England than the bishop . |
| 23 | As it happened , this queen mother was the most remarkable and able of them all , and it is therefore something of an irony that she had to wait for twelve years , until 1554 , and stage a successful coup , before obtaining the place which earlier queen mothers had immediately enjoyed . |
| 24 | As it happened , it was in the years immediately following the Ashby Report that the implications of voluntaryism , and the role which professionals should play as part of a voluntary movement , became matters of major concern within the District . |
| 25 | As it happened , the Club paid £10 and in addition had water brought to its tees . |
| 26 | The parents had come to the conclusion , after soliciting expert opinion , that her needs could best be met in a special ( and , as it happened , private ) school . |
| 27 | As it happened , the Council system soon showed its value when its monitors discovered radioactive contamination under the gantry where nuclear fuel flasks from Hinkley Point were loaded on to trains at Bridgwater railway station , en route to Sellafield . |
| 28 | As it happened , the lecture ended earlier than I had expected , so I had time to waste . ’ |
| 29 | As it happened , Hardy 's ‘ partly real , partly dream country ’ left an indelible mark on the topography of Dorset ; ‘ Mellstock ’ and ‘ Weatherbury ’ became almost as real in the popular imagination as Stinsford and Puddletown . |
| 30 | It had indeed been , as it happened , impossible for him to see her at the times she suggested . |