Example sentences of "who happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor is it foul temper which vents itself indiscriminately on anyone who happens to be within range . |
| 2 | Enter stage right disc jockey Jimmy Franks of BRMB , local independent radio in Birmingham , the only chap who happens to be around when I phone to see if anyone there could help me out . |
| 3 | Playing Mary is Kathleen Campbell , 35 , who happens to be Hannigan 's fiancee . |
| 4 | It would mean you see me as a woman who happens to be in science , and not as a scientist . |
| 5 | So we thought we would have to lose either the display case or the rebuilt wall — and then an old friend of ours , who happens to be the Emeritus Professor of Suburban Buildings at the University of Lutterworth , visiting one day , told us that these houses never actually had a dividing wall between the front room and the back parlour-so we had to take the whole wall out and remodel the opening in the original style , with a simple lintel and unadorned verticals , which we bought at auction in Fyfe . ’ |
| 6 | It was n't satisfying in terms of sound , though , because you ca n't get any sound , even though you 've got someone you consider to be the best guy out on the desk , but who happens to be three hundred yards away ! |
| 7 | Show me one small businessman who happens to be a director of a limited company , who actually requires 15 pages of nonsense that he does not understand , when his annual accounts are prepared . |
| 8 | 4 ( 16 ) UNLAWFUL ENTRY : Ray Liotta plays the obsessive maniac , who happens to be a cop , terrorising an unsuspecting couple . |
| 9 | Few people are aware how men , who on the whole are more socially , economically , politically , and physically powerful than women , use these resources frequently to batter wives and cohabitees ( Dobash and Dobash 1981 ) , sexually harass their female ( usually subordinate ) co-workers , or assault/rape any woman who happens to be in the way ( see Chapter 4 ) . |
| 10 | Then another friend , David Vercoe , who happens to be the controller for Radio 2 , suggested it for the Jamieson show . |
| 11 | Does one appoint a poor teacher who is a mathematics specialist to a staff rather than an excellent teacher who happens to be a historian but who enjoys teaching mathematics ? |
| 12 | You receive a telephone call from the husband of a guest who happens to be out for a stroll . |
| 13 | Where once Hammett and Chandler bestrode the world of Californian crime and corruption like colossuses , now private-eyes like Joseph Hansen 's Dave Brandstetter ( who happens to be homosexual but is otherwise completely in the classic pattern ) an Robert B. Parker 's Spenser ( who happens to work in Boston and be a gourmet cook ) work their contemporary beats in almost exactly the old way . |
| 14 | The reason is that heads of chambers are not required to notify vacant tenancies to a central office , so that there can be fair competition for them ; the tenancy is given to the person who happens to be on the spot and who is acceptable , or to a relative of the head of chambers , or otherwise by favour . |
| 15 | Compare the level of formality in the above dialogue with that in the following extract from another dialogue where Charles is talking to his father , who happens to be the Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard : |
| 16 | Anger with the primary sufferer , with one 's self and with other members of the family and with anyone else who happens to be around . |
| 17 | A white professor has apologised to one of his black lecturers ( who happens to be on the executive of the ANC ) for ‘ treating him as an academic lightweight ’ . |
| 18 | Who happens to be a young wife and mother of impeccable ultra-orthodox credentials . |
| 19 | Is it true that a former DTI Minister , who happens to be the current treasurer of the Conservative party — the noble Lord Beaverbrook — in five months made a profit of £50 million by purchasing and then selling a huge tract of the fragile Guyana rain forest ? |
| 20 | Does not my hon. Friend find it outrageous that Labour-controlled Northumberland county council has refused to accept economies of nearly £1.5 million , as identified by the Conservative and Liberal groups , and has refused to take enough money out of balances to avoid any education cuts , but at the same time it can find thousands of pounds to issue supplements in the Hexham Courant for party political propaganda to promote the leader of the county council , who happens to be a prospective Labour party candidate ? |
| 21 | Ten years of ceaseless fight against socialism ; in favour of flogging and hanging ; and something nice about whoever it is who happens to be leading the Party . |
| 22 | For an EMPLOYEE entity , for example , an EMPLOYEE entity occurrence who happens to be a manager manages other occurrences of the entity EMPLOYEE . |
| 23 | At least that way I shall feel more confident that it 's Labour Party members and supporters who are selecting candidates and electing the leader and deputy leader of the Labour Party and not a Liberal or Tory trade unionist who happens to be paying the political levy . |
| 24 | The composition of a team depends on who happens to be doing what at the time . |
| 25 | Reddy acknowledges objections that rewarded gifting might delay the development of a cadaver transplant programme , but argues that as ‘ the medical , legal , economic , technological , and logistic infrastructure required to set up such a programme in India simply does not exist … is the payment of money to a willing , informed adult , who happens to be poor and needy , so unethical or immoral that it alone determines whether people should be allowed to live or die ? ’ |
| 26 | A few Labour Councillors , a Labour M P , two or three Trade Union representatives , a G P a G P who happens to be a Councillors , Labour Councillor 's wife and one or two others |
| 27 | ‘ Do you have such an inflated idea of your own sex appeal you think you can grab any woman who happens to be to hand ? ’ |
| 28 | The fact that Murphy considers himself first and foremost a businessman who happens to be in PR helps to explain the care with which the decision to sell PRCS was taken . |
| 29 | What we have to do , we have to make the mental leap into a very different world in which witchcraft and dreams and superstitions and so on are mingling together and we must make that effort , and not just assume that somehow it 's William Gladstone who happens to be dressed up in Oliver Cromwell 's clothes . |
| 30 | Imagine that you have just come home from your hard day being an Environmental Health Officer , and your neighbour , who happens to be a builder or bookmaker or something , invites you down to the pub , and over a pint he says , ‘ I heard something on the radio about some story . |