Example sentences of "that it happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that is a stupid thing to do , but it is a fact that it happens . |
| 2 | This view avoids the necessity of explaining how an increase in complexity can occur by denying that it happens , but only at the expense of supposing not only that there is a minute homunculus in the egg but that within that homonculus there is an egg containing a still more minute homonculus , and so on , in Chinese box fashion , ad infinitum — or , if not ad infinitum , at least back to Eve , who carried within her a sufficient number of successively smaller homunculi to account for all the future generations of mankind . |
| 3 | There is no doubt that it happens , no doubt that some child sex rings use forms of ‘ ritual ’ , no doubt that many of them produce child pornography , and no doubt that at the centre of some rings are extremely powerful men . |
| 4 | Friends confirm that it happens often . |
| 5 | Dr Thaler thinks that it happens only in trained networks because , as a network learns , its elements organise themselves into colonies that respond specifically to different features of the environment . |
| 6 | This may be an entirely uncontentious outline of the process of delivering care to individuals , although it conceals the profound organisational and operational difficulties of devising appropriate mechanisms and relationships to ensure that it happens . |
| 7 | This does not in fact happen , but in other kinds of social system people do not even pretend that it happens . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't know why you of all people make my pulses race , my body respond ; I only know that it happens . |
| 9 | The House need not rely on the hon. Gentleman 's view that it happens 99.99 per cent . |
| 10 | One tries to explain that it happens on the odd occasion , at Question Time , which is not a great parliamentary occasion , and that is what the media pick up . |
| 11 | We all know that it happens , but none of us know how or why . |
| 12 | He says of the first degree that it happens when no other desire can divert love from God and " all labyr is lyght to a lufar " , signalling a vivid apprehension of the joy at the heart of the work of redemption . |
| 13 | There is a striking analogy here with crystal growth , except that it happens in two dimensions , not three . |
| 14 | Does n't , does n't automatically follow just because the president expresses a wish that it , that it happens . |
| 15 | He says that it happens too often . |
| 16 | terribly sad that it happens , but it should n't happen , you see ! |
| 17 | Well , they , they may be quality builders , Mr Chairman , but I 'm not sure that it happen , has any relevance to this discussion , we 're talking about a planning application . |
| 18 | I 'm only — I wo n't say glad , no , that would be quite the wrong word , but , shall I say relieved , that it happened last night . ’ |
| 19 | Tory leaders thundering against the takeover of Liverpool city council by the militant Left in the 1980s scarcely mentioned that it happened despite a majority of the city 's electorate voting against Labour . |
| 20 | The only interesting thing about it is that it happened at all . |
| 21 | In a family in which ‘ asking ’ is always done by a threatening fist , and physical violence is the usual means of expressing ill-temper or frustration , the difference between welfare and ill-fare is the strength of the blow rather than the fact that it happened . |
| 22 | In either case , an unauthorised practitioner will have committed a criminal offence under the Financial Services Act , and pleading that he did it only once or that it happened by accident is not going to impress anyone . |
| 23 | According to author Dr Eve Roman , ‘ it made no difference whether a woman worked on a VDU as part of her general day , whether she just used it occasionally or whether her only contact with a VDU was that it happened to be in the same room ’ . |
| 24 | I set off back to the hospital — not in the best of tempers after a foul drive in filthy weather — and it was on the way home , as the wet lamps marched towards me , that it happened . |
| 25 | The headhunting phenomenon of moving teams gained itself a bad name , and it is clear that such a practice is still scorned by many of the most reputable executive search firms and by many companies too , although it is accepted that it happened comparatively rarely . |
| 26 | That it happened at all was historic . |
| 27 | I was quite amazed that it happened , actually . |
| 28 | He continued up the hill , and she went on down ; but a few paces further on she stopped and looked back , and it was at that precise moment that it happened , because he had turned back as well and for a few moments they looked longingly at each other , each tongue-tied , but each sure , now , of the other 's feelings . |
| 29 | I blame myself , the medical profession , and the government , that it happened to someone aged 43 , who considered himself fit . |
| 30 | To Constanza it was an end , an end then and there — the sole fact that it happened , that people consented to it happening , men sent out , actually going out to hurt and kill , systematically destroy one another 's homes and lives and loved ones , the folly of it , the beastliness , the pain ; the strange mad illusion that any of this , under any aspect , any theology , any ideal , could be right — the staggering , inconceivable , immediate , ultimate , concrete wrongness of it all . |