Example sentences of "happen [prep] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bribes to officials are part of the culture of some areas of the world ( and therefore necessary to obtain business ) , yet US citizens are forbidden by law to offer bribes to officials of foreign governments , no matter where in the world the citizen happens to be at the time . |
| 2 | The successful conclusion of my latest project — whatever that happens to be at the time . |
| 3 | The last sentence of each of ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) is structurally ambiguous between putting some biscuits into a bowl which happens to be on the floor , and putting some biscuits , which happen to be in a bowl , on the floor . |
| 4 | The reason is that heads of chambers are not required to notify vacant tenancies to a central office , so that there can be fair competition for them ; the tenancy is given to the person who happens to be on the spot and who is acceptable , or to a relative of the head of chambers , or otherwise by favour . |
| 5 | A white professor has apologised to one of his black lecturers ( who happens to be on the executive of the ANC ) for ‘ treating him as an academic lightweight ’ . |
| 6 | If you 're wearing the ear defenders when the supervisor comes round and happens to be on the token dishing out tour and you 're wearing them , you get your token , okay ? |
| 7 | Er , when you 've finished with it , all I want is the token off the corner of the page it happens to be on the reverse side |
| 8 | You add on that fifty percent or whatever it happens to be to the hundred percent which gives you the new figure . |
| 9 | The comment happens to be about the writer 's home station , but much of it might equally apply to numerous others . |
| 10 | The ‘ w ’ key happens to be beside the ‘ e ’ key and my finger happening to have struck it once , then struck it once more . |
| 11 | Among the extra work which required a special piece of plant to be brought onto the site for one week and then returned 200 miles , there must be some extra work which just happens to be within the scope of a piece of plant which is already on site which would otherwise have been idle during the week in question . |
| 12 | It has some fine Renaissance ceilings on the second floor although these are under lock and key and can not be seen unless the keyholder happens to be in the museum that day . |
| 13 | He is , of course , the corporation 's watcher of science ( along with medicine , aerospace , and aviation , not to mention street sieges when he happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time ) for radio 's news department . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | It means that the communication might be less opportunistic and more frequent with the targets selective rather than whomever happens to be in the group . |
| 16 | is that traffic calming or is it town centre enhancement because it happens to be in the middle of the towns . |
| 17 | Chair , we have through this , what we 've actually s what you 're actually saying there , because I , I happen to be of the view that when you ask for identification of five percent across all the committees and then you start to take that quite happily from the smaller spend committee , then clearly you 're in a position where you have to address the er , question , do we really want to provide this service at all , and that would be tragic in the case of economic development , because it 's so vital to the erm , economic development of the county as a whole , and so , yes , there , I would suggest that there 's clearly the need to be a corporate view , and a corporate er , er , will to actually put up resources at your disposal , er , er , especially since five B was n't actually , although it was it had n't actually been granted , so it was a bit of an unknown quantity when perhaps the first P A G erm , sat and deliberated . |
| 18 | U. supporters who happen to be at the fete will have extra motivation for hitting the net behind Wesley . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is constantly compared with the ancient rock paintings in the Lascaux caves , which happen to be within the breed 's native region . |
| 21 | The draft letter to Katkov merely claims that crimes like this fictional one can be found in the newspapers , and that the fictional murderer has come under the influence of certain half-baked ideas which happen to be in the air at the time . |
| 22 | The ions in water and blood happen to be in the critical mass range . |
| 23 | ‘ We 're two different people who happen to be in the same business . |
| 24 | In a game the rules are socially constructed beforehand ; in creative drama they are negotiated , but this negotiation is often constrained by whatever the ‘ rules ’ happen to be in the slice of life the creative drama is reflecting . |
| 25 | This leads to what I have called the Central Theorem of the Extended Phenotype : An animal 's behaviour tends to maximise the survival of the genes ‘ for ’ that behaviour , whether or not those genes happen to be in the body of the particular animal performing it . |
| 26 | But there 's lots of wildlife around , if you happen to be in the right place at the right time , and not singing a Betty Boo number at the top of your voice . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I was received as a thief , a well-mannered rapist , bucketless car-washer , double-glazing runner , not to mention corrupt informant that some of them tiles is loose , Ma 'm , and we just happen to be in the area with a long ladder so why not call it eighty quid ? |
| 30 | Yvetot is the great butter market of the Caux country and provides a sight worth seeing if you happen to be in the district on a Wednesday morning . |