Example sentences of "who happen to be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would mean you see me as a woman who happens to be in science , and not as a scientist . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | The fact that Murphy considers himself first and foremost a businessman who happens to be in PR helps to explain the care with which the decision to sell PRCS was taken . |
| 4 | ‘ We 're two different people who happen to be in the same business . |
| 5 | Sometimes this may be unfortunate pupils who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time ; but often it is the teachers ' families who begin to bear the brunt , and whose reserves of tolerance and goodwill may also , after a while , begin to dry up in turn . |
| 6 | As Arendt has pointed out , ‘ In all these cases , legitimacy derives from something outside the range of human deeds ; it is either not man-made at all … or has at least not been made by those who happen to be in power . ’ |
| 7 | The basic idea is that in order to study a single linguistic feature , the investigator will elicit a set word or phrase in entirely naturalistic conditions from persons who happen to be in a given place at a given time . |
| 8 | Formal goals may be displaced by informal and incompatible goals that reflect the interests of members who happen to be in a position to substitute their goals for those of ‘ the organization ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | So did old Mike , and anyone else who happened to be in the shop . |
| 11 | It seems that a passer-by had spotted a naked man frolicking on the balcony — who happened to be in the room next door — and somewhere along the line a case of mistaken identity occurred . |
| 12 | Thornton 's 168-yard hit at Hove in 1876 , verified by historian James Pycroft , who happened to be in the firing-line . |
| 13 | He was finally restrained by police officers from the Diplomatic Protection Squad , who happened to be in the area , and two doormen from a nearby gambling club . |
| 14 | Three patients , all who happened to be in the Pasteur group were subsequently unavailable . |
| 15 | LOYALIST gunmen were ordered to kill anyone who happened to be in a particular house attacked in Belfast last week . |
| 16 | Hundreds of people were arrested and imprisoned , or summarily executed , because their ideas or sympathies were considered " wrong " by those who happened to be in local control . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm calling a friend who happened to be in London with me , ’ he drawled coolly . |