Example sentences of "just happen [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ With Jimmy just happening to be there ? ’
2 It really did n't feel like it was such big stuff , it was just happening to me and I believed I was going to be all right .
3 Now we 've got to race against time again , this is not just happening in NUPE it 's happened all over and it 's gon na it 's happening in this union before it starts .
4 And you 're talking to your mate and it 's all just happening by magic .
5 And attacks quite deliberate , not just happening by accident .
6 I mean reading as to be put in a context and a context that is , in fact , enjoyable to the child , not something that just happens at school that they have to do , hence one they go to school the value of parents hearing the children read , because then the parent is also involved and one does n't get this split between home and school .
7 I mean reading as to be put in a context and a context that is , in fact , enjoyable to the child , not something that just happens at school that they have to do , hence one they go to school the value of parents hearing the children read , because then the parent is also involved and one does n't get this split between home and school .
8 This house was indeed built for a gentleman — it just happens to be on an almost miniature scale .
9 I know that 's very boring of me , but it just happens to be true , my dear .
10 During the 1970s several teams attempted to refute this claim , arguing that the connection is a figment of Arp 's imagination , that it is an optical illusion caused by the overlap of isophotes ( light contours ) from the two objects , or that it is an illusion caused by a star or galaxy which just happens to be located between the two objects .
11 We sometimes surprise ourselves as well as our near and dear ones by suddenly exploding into unreasonable anger over a trifling offence which just happens to be the last straw that breaks the camel 's back .
12 It just happens to be legal . ’
13 One is that the figure of 300 per cent increase in productivity just happens to be that which would have had to occur to cost-justify the installation of CAD given capital and wage costs in the early 1980s in the UK when this figure gained currency .
14 We shall be considering The Prelude as a poem at the appropriate point in the Critical Survey ; for the moment I propose to refer to it simply as evidence of Wordsworth 's internal struggles and preoccupations , as if it were a diary or a letter to a friend which just happens to be in verse .
15 Unless , of course , it just happens to be a Japanese burglar .
16 DARREN FERGUSON has won over his biggest critic — Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson , who also just happens to be his dad .
17 ‘ I happen to believe variety is the spice of life , it just happens to be that women end up victimising themselves a lot , or subjecting themselves to a lot of bullshit to get some sort of coverage .
18 When these result in avoidable death , and they do , then it could be anyone who just happens to be there — employees , consumers , ordinary citizens .
19 Most philosophical systems of ethics , and most popular moralizing , are radically flawed because they recommend morality to us either as what it is in our own best ultimate interests to do , or alternatively try to promote it by appeal to our feelings , for example feelings of compassion , or ( like Hutcheson ) by reference to some kind of moral sentiment which just happens to be part of human nature .
20 A day 's golf with the president of this company or that company when the fellow who makes up the four and plays with the president of the corporation just happens to be last year 's Masters Champion .
21 The user prepares a document using Berthold fonts and sends it to a bureau for output on an imagesetter which just happens to be running Hell-Xenotron 's Bridgit .
22 A random development , culturally reinforced , which just happens to be love rather than something else ?
23 The only thing they have in common is that they are all outgoing , extrovert , self-confident , irrepressible and generally sparky personalities — which just happens to be a pretty good recipe for attractiveness in a woman , as well as being the ideal make-up for sales . ’
24 I think Alone In the Dark just happens to be one of those games .
25 When you do this what you will see in the cell is either a 0 ( meaning False ) if what is actually in B10 is n't Bach or 1 ( meaning True ) if it just happens to be Bach .
26 it just happens to be the same amount at exactly the same time but how nice of him to explain and how silly of us to be taken in by this string of coincidences .
27 j it just happens to be one that I know about .
28 Later I mention this encounter to an old friend who just happens to be a former service supervisor for the phone company .
29 That game just happens to be the Tennent 's Irish Senior Cup semi-final against Avoca .
30 Well this to , to photograph anything , this just happens to be a camera and I suppose that would appeal to a lot of camera collectors to people that I er er who I work with , people I know , friends and that , they know I 'm interested in photography and they always ask me about cameras
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