Example sentences of "they happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Events seen on the television the might before , or read about in the day 's newspaper , or relayed as they happen to police stations throughout the province over the MSX machine , naturally facilitate talk on sensitive topics or cam be used as contextually related props to achieve the same end . |
| 2 | Their children will in many cases be born stateless ( unless they happen to be born in a country where birth confers the right of citizenship ) . |
| 3 | These are the people who do n't consider what 's going on in your mind , merely what goes on your feet ( the London club Kazoo turns people away if they happen to be wearing Wallabees ) . |
| 4 | They happen to be my father 's vice . ’ |
| 5 | ( By the way , in case they happen to be reading this , my apologies to Phillip , Mary , Harold and Henry for taking their names in vain ! ) |
| 6 | Whales and dolphins are largely carnivorous , but feed mostly on much smaller creatures — fish , lobsters , krill , plankton and so on , depending upon the species and where they happen to be in the world 's oceans . |
| 7 | Young children may lay claim to possession just because they happen to be playing with , say , a car or doll . |
| 8 | However , despite its diminutive size , it is well able to fend for itself in a mixed community tank , protecting its territory against all comers , even if they happen to be twice its size . |
| 9 | I know booksellers who regard the written word with the utmost suspicion , profess that they do not understand it , and will have nothing to do with it ; dealers who specialise in autograph material , but will not touch books — unless , of course , they happen to be on the subject of autographs ; and many who maintain an ambivalent attitude , preferring to keep their options open and , if they can afford it , employing some eccentric especially to deal with this awkward material . |
| 10 | They both love browsing in antique shops wherever they happen to be visiting , and appreciate good quality modern and reproduction designs . |
| 11 | A third party may be confident that the member States behind the organisation are secure debtors , particularly if they happen to be the main industrial powers of the world . |
| 12 | Remember also that most lecturers ( if they happen to be your examiners ) feel a strong revulsion and antipathy when they find their own cherished and " brilliant " arguments re-presented in a bowdlerised fashion from inadequate notes and a poor flogged memory . |
| 13 | and jobs because of the way they look particularly if they happen to be |
| 14 | The key assumption here remains , of course , that the identity of an ontological existent , or , more accurately , its ontological individuality , depends upon all of this existent 's properties , and hence that if any of them were different from what they happen to be , the existent itself would be different . |
| 15 | A substance is necessarily such that all its properties are " essential " properties , in the sense that they all together define its " nature " , and if any of them were missing or were different from what they happen to be , the substance itself would be different . |
| 16 | Our workshop , on Staff Development for Language Teachers in Secondary Schools , although highlighting the informal possibilities which can be developed by committed teachers operating collectively wherever they happen to be working , was not intended to weaken the case for proper provision for community languages with proper validation of the existing expertise . |
| 17 | And that 's a lot of dead people … and innocent people , whichever side they happen to be on . ’ |
| 18 | Children will play wherever they happen to be — in the garden , the street , at the park , with friends or alone with their toys . |
| 19 | If , however , our interest was in the resources produced by UK nationals , wherever they happen to be located , then our ratio should use national product . |
| 20 | ‘ Unless they happen to be you ? ’ she finished drily . |
| 21 | These eerie coincidences are very impressive when they happen to us or to one of our friends , but their improbability is measured in only picodealions . |
| 22 | Why should they be financially penalized because they happen to be sick or disabled ? |
| 23 | I find it surprising that Opposition Front-Bench spokesmen wish to exclude spouses because of whom they happen to be married to when they have good records of public service . |
| 24 | In all seriousness , I ask the Government not to deride the strong arguments for a local income tax just because they happen to be advanced by what they call minority parties . |
| 25 | And whichever sort they happen to be , they always think they 're the first of their kind . |
| 26 | Let us focus our attention on where Third World grain imports come from and how they happen to be available in such massive quantities . |
| 27 | Calls will be linked automatically to the first available Samaritan volunteer , whatever part of the country they happen to be in . |
| 28 | The decoders here are just non-linear functions , they 're just binary non-linear functions they happen to be but they 're non-linear . |
| 29 | Soon children will be lending each other America is Falling Down in which Michael Douglas , a disillusioned middle-class businessman , grabs his gun and storms a merry path through the city , showering bullets like confetti on anyone who gets in his way : especially if they happen to be Korean or Cuban . |
| 30 | And in so far as it , as the question arises erm of what kind of , of provisions erm are you going to find if you go abroad , erm then I think we can say that within the European Community , erm citizens of one member state are entitled to what the citizens of the member state in which they happen to be staying are entitled to . |