Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] happened to be " in BNC.
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1 | Not surprisingly , their most fanatical fan happened to be Steven Morrissey . |
2 | After the wedding , they were taken for breakfast to the house of the officiating priest which by curious coincidence happened to be to Kensington Church Walk , where Ezra Pound had lived many years before . |
3 | Secondly , the pooling system for higher education expenditure amongst local authorities was one which protected those authorities in which the newly-designated polytechnics happened to be situated . |
4 | When the advocates of a pro-Israeli policy happened to be Jewish , says the Jewish Mr Teicher , the Arabists did not hesitate to whisper ‘ dual loyalty ’ . |
5 | Poor Jasper happened to be curled up asleep some five feet away at the time and was rudely awakened . |
6 | We even excuse ourselves a smile at the Catholic priest who tells of how he , being an incompetent tennis player , accidentally mishit a shot that flew into an adjacent court where a black man happened to be playing . |
7 | The CO 's office where he was learning the job of Assistant Adjutant happened to be on the first floor of an empty house in Cadogan Gardens . |
8 | I can not imagine what sort of place this gentleman imagined he was coming to in bringing the latter , but I must say it struck something of an odd note to see in Darlington Hall these two large silent men staring suspiciously in all directions a few yards from wherever the Italian gentleman happened to be . |
9 | A Phocaean aristocrat happened to be the guest of the king of the Ligurian tribe of the Segobrigi when the king 's daughter was made to choose a husband at a banquet . |
10 | Numerous such accidents happened whilst igniting , for if the slow fuze happened to be not so slow , or the miner inadvertently touched the straw with his candle , then he might have but a few impossible seconds to make good his escape . |
11 | I suppose no other curate happened to be in poor health at that time . ’ |
12 | The local MP happened to be Michael Heseltine , who knows a thing or two about campaigning . |
13 | ONE of the Spanish flunkies approached the Princess Royal in Barcelona last week when the Royal Box happened to be empty and suggested she sit there . |