Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] happen to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I just happen to be the exception . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 'm going to multiply it by another number which also happens to be a hundred to the power a half . |
| 5 | Fresh from the USA , the Expo makes its UK debut in Scotland from 5–7 March 1993 , which also happens to be the European Year of Older People . |
| 6 | Of interest is the Gothic cathedral in Magdeburg , the market square in Halle and the Bauhaus museum in nearby Dessau ( which also happens to be the birthplace of Händel ) . |
| 7 | Crofting made its impact when we moved house from one of the quiet streets , in the middle of the town , to the road which was planned by a wealthy proprietor as an elegant tree-lined approach to Lews Castle , but which also happened to be the shortest route between a dozen crofting villages , lying to the east of the town , and their 19,000 acres of general common pasture which lay to the west . |
| 8 | Later I mention this encounter to an old friend who just happens to be a former service supervisor for the phone company . |
| 9 | Meanwhile Sir Clifford has engaged a nurse , Mrs Bolton … who just happens to be the village gossip . |
| 10 | ‘ The whole thing has got out of control , I 'm not so much bored as miserable , ’ confided Diana to a sympathetic neighbour who just happened to be a journalist . |
| 11 | The station commander , who just happened to be a bit of an oppo of mine called " Bull " Jarmen — a great monster of a fellow and a Kiwi to boot — who was heard to say : " Well , it was very convenient him leaving it there ; you did not have to travel very far to collect it or find out what happened to the undercarriage . " |
| 12 | A Concorde tug was the brainchild of PC Bob Gilbert based at Maidstone , Kent who also happens to be a member of the Vulcan Association . |
| 13 | Bank Assistants can not afford to live on their current salaries and , as has been pointed out , a Bank assistant who also happens to be a bread winner would be better off on the Dole ! |
| 14 | This kind of puzzle is not merely of interest to intellectuals who study what is called game theory , an area of mathematics advanced by John von Neumann , who also happens to be the father of the stored program computer . |
| 15 | It was by chance and with the support of a visiting teacher of drawing who also happened to be a lecturer at Goldsmiths College that I succeeded in getting a place at art school , the first and last totally blind student to have ever done so in Britain . |
| 16 | Unless , of course , it just happens to be a Japanese burglar . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Mine is not an isolated instance , it just happens to be the most famous , because it 's the first time such persecution has been exported to a western country . |
| 19 | And Robert , who was by now learning the basic rule that if anybody said anything interesting it was probably Muhammad , would ask if by any chance it just happened to be a saying of the Prophet , to which the headmaster would reply , his eyes shining , ‘ That 's it ! |
| 20 | Anything could have sparked the riots , it just happened to be the injustice of Rodney King 's trial that triggered it this time . |
| 21 | It just happened to be the one which caused the glass to become overfilled and which caused the body to begin to signal being under excessive stress . |
| 22 | We made love , it just happened to be the first time for me . |
| 23 | ‘ Guy is not a yuppie , ’ Charles remonstrated , in the voice he reserved for humouring his little sister when she was being most irritating , ‘ He just happens to be a very successful … ’ her brother hesitated a fraction as if searching for the most appropriate description ‘ … entrepreneur . ’ |
| 24 | It also happens to be a disastrous blow to Test cricket 's normally well-guarded sanctity as the supreme form of the game 's expression . |
| 25 | It also happens to be a favourite animal for ethological experiments . |
| 26 | As it also happens to be the only drinker on the Cherwell until you get to Islip , the murderous conspiracies and dark plots which so excite the Kidlington Kops amount to nothing more than the fact that when I opened my curtains that morning I saw the sun shining in a cloudless blue sky and decided to go for the longest and most pleasant of the river walks open to me . |
| 27 | He also happens to be the founder of one of the most beautiful islands in the Grenadines : Palm Island , 130 acres of tropical splendour . |
| 28 | Now , she was n't sure whether she truly loved the Navaho , or whether he simply happened to be the only human being she had contact with . |
| 29 | It undeniably happens to be the case that these phenotypic effects have largely become bundled up into discrete vehicles , each with its genes disciplined and ordered by the prospect of a shared bottleneck of sperms or eggs funnelling them into the future . |