Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [pron] happen to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said well I 'm trying to I said this bloke what happens to be my oldest brother I said , and he wo n't even tow it for me ! |
| 2 | He had an endearing habit at 10 o'clock of calling on each facet of his customers , starting with the lowest rank of airman , to " piss off " ; and worked through the ranks until he got to Kings ( and on this occasion it happened to be King Peter of Yugoslavia ) . |
| 3 | She would n't mention the boy who 'd made trouble unless for some reason she happened to be asked about him , and she felt she would not be . |
| 4 | In 1985 , Hoffman J. , in dealing with a case concerning an order under the Bankers ' Books Evidence Act 1879 and a subpoena duces tecum , distinguished cases of discovery by ‘ ordinary parties to English litigation who happen to be foreigners ’ . |
| 5 | In this generation it happens to be me . |
| 6 | From time to time , almost absent-mindedly , he reached into his pocket and produced a sweet , which he gave to any small boy who happened to be near . |
| 7 | For one thing she happens to be another man 's wife these days . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Malcolm Rifkind , the Defence Secretary , intervened to say the army believed it would be ‘ grossly invidious for the choice of soldiers for redundancy to depend on whether at any given moment they happened to be serving in Northern Ireland , Bosnia , the UK or elsewhere ’ . |
| 11 | Are you , the haulier , agreeing , for example , to supply a particular vehicle for haulage or to supply any lorry which happens to be available at the time the contract needs to be undertaken ? |
| 12 | George Taylor was collected and he and Mrs Oliver returned to the tobacconists ' to be joined shortly by PC Chandler , an off-duty policeman who happened to be in Higatt 's too . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 15 | So we entered a genteel teashoppe/cafe which happened to be handy and ordered coffee , as so often before . |
| 16 | At that time I happened to be running the scheme as a leader and officer in the Stornoway Sea Cadet Corps and the boy 's mother had asked me to attend in her place . |
| 17 | As I understand it the Cleveland structure plan proposes the same number of dwellings for erm its next period which happens to be fourteen years , as it did for the last fourteen of the of the previous structure plan , fifteen thousand seven hundred . |
| 18 | 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 ? |