Example sentences of "happen [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eighth , do n't expect to get any sort of sensible answers from a company who sells computers which happen to be capable of being used for desktop publishing . |
| 2 | if I happen to be awake at that time , then yes , but , if I do n't have |
| 3 | As a result , agents of the owner , who happen to be former principals of Sotheby 's , arranged for the procurement of another set of licenses from the Lebanon ’ . |
| 4 | And unless we happen to be absolute saints , I 'll bet most of us would admit that there have been occasions when we would willingly have ‘ divorced ’ our young ourselves … |
| 5 | Nowadays , with the boundary between mass and energy abolished , the advantage might be said to have passed to ch'i ; yet it would be absurd to suggest that the Chinese have been proved right , since the advantages and disadvantages depend on which problems happen to be current . |
| 6 | The sorts of things I happen to like , the sorts of things I happen to be good at or bad at . |
| 7 | He points to the irrationality of this assumption and makes the seemingly rather obvious point that ‘ Torture … is an infallible means for absolving robust scoundrels and for condemning innocent persons who happen to be weak ’ ( p. 32 ) . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , the 50Hz or 60Hz frequencies , relating to the two-pole magnetising rotor fields on synchronous alternators ( running at a speed of 3,000 or 3,600 rpm ) , happen to be close to the frequency at which ions in bodies respond to , while in 50µT of the geomagnetic field . |
| 9 | The random nature of turbulent motion gives a diffusive action ; two fluid particles that happen to be close together at some instant are likely to be much further apart at any later time . |
| 10 | It would seem then to fall to those staff who happen to be bilingual , or to those few teachers who are actually engaged in the teaching of community languages , to raise general awareness in the few schools in which they are deployed . |
| 11 | If any of you happen to be professional philosophers , you will certainly have had this experience in your , in society , you 're asked what you do , and if you make that admission , a slightly lunatic thing happens . |
| 12 | I happen to be married but things would be tough on a single income ’ . |
| 13 | Some stars can be seen that way if the conditions happen to be appropriate , but children will not get very far as astronomers unless their own resources are supplemented by those accumulated by the tradition of astronomy built up over the centuries . |
| 14 | It is the ones that happen to be durable that exist as rocks . |
| 15 | As you well know our mission statement , Save The Children 's vision , commits us to using our experience gained here and overseas to achieve lasting benefits for children on a far wider scale than would be the case if we just confined our work to those children and families who happen to be involved in the projects we run . |
| 16 | ‘ Think you 're so bloody superior just because you happen to be straight ! ’ |
| 17 | These beetles happen to be haplodiploid , like bees and ants ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 18 | ‘ We are not together because we happen to be two women , ’ says Sandra . |
| 19 | And they just happen to be two of the best tracks . |
| 20 | And if there happen to be other people listening , all well and good . |
| 21 | Those in : ( 30 ) an eager student a poor liar a lousy saint ( with the latter having here its informal sense of imperfect ) are perhaps best considered as ordinary ascriptives which happen to be relativistic adjectives , so that their range of interpretation will vary according to the type of thing assumed to be described . |
| 22 | and you just happen to be taller and heavier than James |
| 23 | Neither public nor private owners happen to be great at monitoring managements . |
| 24 | Products tend to be misplaced or even completely lost or they get in the way but somehow they never happen to be available when wanted . |
| 25 | Let us focus our attention on where Third World grain imports come from and how they happen to be available in such massive quantities . |
| 26 | Materials that happen to be available in the school , including even seriously inadequate ones , can be brought into play and yield educationally valuable material if approached from a point of view of real understanding on the teacher 's part . |
| 27 | K ap is true because in the nearest worlds in which you are sitting reading you believe that you are sitting reading , and the nearest worlds in which you are not sitting reading are either worlds in which you are standing/kneeling/lying reading or worlds in which you are sitting knitting/watching TV , etc. , but not worlds in which you happen to be asleep dreaming that you are sitting reading . |
| 28 | Of the best , who happen to be all men . |
| 29 | He knows slightly too many people who happen to be rich . |
| 30 | But the private world , where people look for both their pleasure and their fulfilment , is a competing world of separate group allegiances , some of which happen to be religious . |