Example sentences of "happen to be [adj] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are you , the haulier , agreeing , for example , to supply a particular vehicle for haulage or to supply any lorry which happens to be available at the time the contract needs to be undertaken ? |
| 2 | The mother who ‘ ca n't be so cruel ’ as to wake her sleeping baby if he happens to be asleep at the appointed feeding-time , fails to realize that a few such wakings would be all she would have to resort to … |
| 3 | if I happen to be awake at that time , then yes , but , if I do n't have |
| 4 | The sorts of things I happen to like , the sorts of things I happen to be good at or bad at . |
| 5 | Neither public nor private owners happen to be great at monitoring managements . |
| 6 | Over the past two centuries the ships employed have ranged from totally unsuitable ones , which happened to be available at the time , to , less commonly , purpose-built vessels incorporating the most sophisticated technology of the day . ’ |
| 7 | As has been seen , the choice of Pétain to command at Verdun was made less because of his qualities than because he happened to be available at the moment . |