Example sentences of "happen to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Politically , therefore , the inducements to continue what the Plowden Committee call ‘ excessive social services ’ are much stronger than the inducements to discontinue them or to supplement any which may happen to be ‘ inadequate ’ . |
| 2 | Mr Kinnock hoped a Labour government would be so successful ‘ as to diminish the support for several parties who do n't happen to be our political allies and are unlikely to become so . ’ |
| 3 | A further luxury Excise Duty of 10% will be assessed on specific expensive cars , which may happen to be imported cars , but simply coincidence , boats , furs and electrical goods . |
| 4 | The Guardian asked : ‘ If the police practice is to strike obstructive demonstrators on the legs , as Mr Craig claims , how did heads happen to be bleeding ? ’ |
| 5 | And should you happen to be archaeologist , geologist , botanist , ornithologist , indeed any other sort of -ologist , then Inchnadamph National Nature Reserve will please and delight . |
| 6 | Thus we should guard against any immediate and unreasoned reaction to the idea that they might ultimately be widened to encompass individuals who do not happen to be human . |
| 7 | I 'm a farmer — and if I do happen to be mixed up in other people ’ s extraordinary affairs , it 's no fault of mine . |
| 8 | It appears reasonable to claim that a man without the capacity to put himself in another 's place could not understand a moral appeal ( even if he should happen to be a law-abiding man who accepts commands and prohibitions on external authority ) , just as someone incapable of shifting temporal viewpoints could not understand an appeal to his future interests . |
| 9 | Moreover , if the moral judgment which we require to make is one which involves our own personal interest we might reasonably look to the relevant law as representing a less partial view of the matter than our own ; for , without attributing to the law a non-partisan impartiality at variance with most available knowledge about the actual political and legal processes , it might still happen to be less partial and more informed than we are when making judgments about cases which affect us closely . |
| 10 | That was in her favour , and if she did happen to be a female tea leaf , well , he was the last person entitled to throw stones . |
| 11 | And of course , if the object did happen to be the flyaway tent , its owner would need it back . |
| 12 | In contrast , a categorical imperative bids me , as a rational being , do such and such , whatever my desires may happen to be , because doing so is essential to living up to my status as a rational being . |
| 13 | If your first choice of hotel should happen to be fully booked , you 'll be offered the nearest alternative ‘ Go-As-You-Please ’ hotel . |
| 14 | From the premises a > b and b> c , it does not simply happen to be the case that a> c . |
| 15 | When that aim is kept in view , it will be found that English as a subject should occupy not any place which may happen to be vacant , but the first place ; and that English as a method must have entry everywhere . |
| 16 | Well , that does n't happen to be my style , my choice of façade . |
| 17 | However , if some setting that you have little or no first-hand experience of does happen to be what has made your imagination bubble and race , you need not cross it off altogether . |
| 18 | Mind , I can always claim to have had running water at Low Birk Hatt but it did happen to be a stream some way down the meadow . |
| 19 | Oddly enough , I did n't happen to be in my room again when Terry Wogan came to see me before the show on the second occasion . |
| 20 | Can he give us any reason why the same principle should not be applied to any part of the country that does not happen to be his own ? |
| 21 | It may perhaps be questioned whether such restrictions were necessary , since a procession is capable of causing disruption whatever the purpose of those organising it may happen to be . |
| 22 | We just do n't happen to be together at the moment . |
| 23 | Some of the equipment in here must have cost a small fortune — it would be dreadful , would n't it , if there should happen to be an accident ? ’ |
| 24 | To our colleague from London , let me say I happen to be a boilermaker , not because I 'm a dinosaur with me head in the past , but because that happens to be the occupation that I follow and that 's what I am . |
| 25 | It would n't happen to be a Dornier bomber they suggest , the good old Flying Pencil ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ This promotes the refocusing of attention from a region where there may happen to be high quality accidental word matches to events whose word match quality may not be as great , but are the best matches in their regions . |
| 27 | Erm , we have , as you would have seen , and has already been noted , erm , balances considerably higher than the seven million we 've previously set , at the , at the moment , and these will erm , be able to make provision if necessary , for police pay should happen to be higher than er , we are told than , than the one point five percent , which has something that people have raised with me , and erm , have said , that oh of course you lose grants if you do n't decide it now , but that is not in fact the case . |
| 28 | ‘ Of course , I realise that as far as you 're concerned I ca n't possibly hope to fill my predecessor 's shoes , but I do happen to be very good at my job . ’ |
| 29 | Should you happen to be driving in the vicinity of one of these ‘ sealed lorries ’ extreme caution is advised as a number of motorists have found to their cost , sometimes the spills are more substantial . |
| 30 | ‘ Should you happen to be driving in the vicinity of the lorries , extreme caution is advised . |