Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] happen to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just — ’ here he shot a glance at Sarella ‘ — my heart happens to be engaged elsewhere . ’ |
| 2 | Is that what it is– ’ Or if I was to see the doctor and my girlfriend happened to be seeing the doctor as well , this was just an excuse , according to them , for us to be together . |
| 3 | My room-mate happening to be a policeman , I was at a loss whether to look upon it as a special honour or a special precaution , mine host putting into my room a representative of the force . |
| 4 | ‘ It would cause endless difficulties if their decision happened to be misplaced , dozy or ill thought-out . ’ |
| 5 | The church had been chosen simply because its priest happened to be a friend of Eliot 's solicitor , who was also " best man " . |
| 6 | The old file wo n't itself be finally lost until all its space happens to be used for storing new files . |
| 7 | Hoomey , in the next desk , was yawning , having sat up late to watch the horror film , and had a comic open on his desk which he was reading whenever his eyes happened to be open . |
| 8 | The ringing in his ears happened to be a bare half tone below the key in which he hummed music to himself . |
| 9 | Vologsky had constantly reassured himself that the repeated refusals were simply because his applications happened to be made at an inopportune moment . |
| 10 | His father happens to be a close neighbour of mine in the village of Comerford , that 's all . |
| 11 | His father happened to be passing , shortly after the attack , but when he went to help , he did n't recognise his own son . |
| 12 | For some time I was baffled by a sentence in his argument that the theoretical removal of the authority of the author by the critic , Stanley Fish , has no way of dealing with misprints : ‘ His book happens to be full of misprints . |
| 13 | Now ours , we 've helped you by already mixing it , so ours have got three percent of essential oil to a carrier oil , which in our case happens to be grapes erm grapeseed oil , which is a very light carrier oil . |
| 14 | IF YOUR name happens to be Ebeneezer Scrooge you may think otherwise , but a Christmas without crackers is one that passes with a whimper rather than a bang . |
| 15 | ‘ As your property happens to be slap-bang in the middle of our site , it seemed like common sense to discover what went on here . |
| 16 | But I think our balance happens to be a very good one . |
| 17 | And if your victim happens to be conveniently close to the edge of a tall cliff , by the time he 's bounced down a couple of hundred metres on to the rocks , he 'll be in such a mess that the injury from the blow stands a good chance of being overlooked . |