Example sentences of "it happen [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The baby saw it happening but could do nothing to stop it , its pudgy fingers would not close tightly enough to grasp the string … . |
| 2 | No it was Mark , I can remember it happening when she |
| 3 | ‘ But such anxiety will not stop it happening if the Soviet Union should ever allow it to happen or be unable to stop it happening ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ There is a reasonable chance of it happening and there is a collective will to support it ’ , Cunningham believes . |
| 5 | It was only later , after they had become engaged , that he had seemed to change , so slowly at first that she was scarcely even aware of it happening until , one day at a party given by a fellow student , someone , she could n't even remember who , had planted a playful kiss on her cheek . |
| 6 | Well the fear of boring you because I 've said it before , I think that either a Trustee made up of an equal balance of members from the various interested groups which is very difficult to achieve in practice and additionally independent trustees certainly in our case , we believe would have stopped it happening because the movements in the direction it went was clear now that we have the information in front of us to the Trustees , it was quite clear what was gon na happen and nothing was done about it . |
| 7 | so many so very often it happens but for me too I shall go just half an hour |
| 8 | Furthermore , it happens that our ideas are sometimes ‘ more strong , lively , and distinct ’ than at others . |
| 9 | It is obvious that a pretty problem arises when the test of domicile refers the English courts to the law of a country which applies the test of citizenship and it happens that the citizenship of the person in question was British . |
| 10 | Wo n't it be wonderful when it happens that you and I will be able to share a little secret that , in the womb of Walsingham , on our diocesan retreat ‘ a prayer was uttered and a commitment determined . |
| 11 | Sometimes it happens that after a number of successive doses like this , the patient will have the beginnings of an aggravation : the medicine should be stopped for two to four days ( or a few hours in acute disease ) and in order to continue treatment you want to give the remedy now in a more diluted form : from the first cup ( not the bottle ) take one teaspoonful and dilute it in another cup , and one teaspoonful of this solution should be given to the patient . |
| 12 | Now , it happens that is a very controversial and highly questionable economic proposition . |
| 13 | It happens that Mr X 's preferred language is French , but even in that tongue he could not write or spell with any normal level of competence and his grammar was almost non-existent . |
| 14 | It happens that 1981 was the warmest year ( averaging over the whole northern hemisphere ) since detailed records began to be kept in 1881 , about 0.6 °C above the long-term average . |
| 15 | Handsome women are , of course , soon free to depart , but it happens that the uncomely sometimes have to wait several years … |
| 16 | Even if it happens that I have made a firm decision to commit suicide , and have been wondering for weeks how to cheat the insurance company , the failure to jump would accord with my intention only by chance . |
| 17 | It happens that only the last of these verb phrases is standard English . |
| 18 | Quite frequently it happens that mystics are deeply influenced by philosophy , even though they tend to decry ‘ the meddling intellect ’ . |
| 19 | Now it happens that when some substances crystallize they find it easier to do so if some kind of irregularity is present . |
| 20 | Most natural minerals are brittle because they are more or less homogeneous but it happens that a few have cleavage planes of about the right strength . |
| 21 | Old age abuse is a term that can be used more properly to refer to situations where it happens that the elderly person is abusing the carer ( Case Study 4.2 ) . |
| 22 | Fortunately , it happens that we have a common friend and both he and Mr Maxwell were to be at a board meeting in New York on Monday . ’ |
| 23 | Now it happens that everyone 's instinctive belief that the best site is at the ‘ centre of gravity ’ of the sources and markets is incorrect in this problem — the best site tends to be at the source or at a dominant market in many cases : this point failed totally to emerge . |
| 24 | A final point that has to be borne in mind is that in order to make generalizations based on the type of quantitative analysis pioneered by Labov , a large number of tokens must be analysed ( usually thousands ) ; however , it happens that some variables that are quite salient in the community occur relatively rarely , and so we can not make reliable quantitative statements about these covering the range of speaker variables , even though they may be involved in linguistic change and may be important for historical projections on to earlier English . |
| 25 | It is true that in some cases it happens that the recipient does not find the punishment painful , or even welcomes it — for example , some offenders might find prison a refuge against the intolerable pressures of the outside world . |
| 26 | ‘ Those extensive powers are conferred upon the court for the beneficial winding up of the company , for sometimes it happens that the liquidator is unable to obtain from unwilling persons the information which he requires . |
| 27 | It happens that my father is one of the top people in what is known as Work Study . |
| 28 | The reason for for local plan consultation is such that erm it gives the opportunity for objectors to make comments and otherwise , and that District Council and the the County Council erm should consider er objections and it 's i it it happens that erm the local authorities you know can change their mind as the process goes along . |
| 29 | Now it happens that this particular part of the beaver 's brain , because of its position in the total wiring diagram , is involved in the beaver 's dam-building behaviour . |
| 30 | Deems , it happens that I have read this play which so disturbs you . |