Example sentences of "the [noun] happened to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground , and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place ; I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given , that for anything I knew , the watch might have always been there . |
| 2 | The boaters happened to be Russell Train , who ran the Federal Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) in Washington , just 50 km to the west , and Senator Charles Mac Mathias of the state of Maryland , which shares with Virginia the bay 's 13 000 km of shoreline . |
| 3 | Especially if the wheel happened to be hers . |
| 4 | The words happened to be the first I could enunciate . |
| 5 | And the words happened to be so very true … |
| 6 | The marble happened to be perfect . |
| 7 | In Wycliffe 's temporary office there was only one small , dirty window high up in the wall , but the sun happened to be shining through it and so his desk and chair were placed in a pool of sunlight . |
| 8 | If there were spokes and the Scapegoat happened to be topside of them it could n't fall through . ’ |
| 9 | She said it would only be a little party : herself and Freddie , one of her flat mates , called Pauline — the other happened to be away — and Pauline 's boyfriend . |
| 10 | Moreover we can discuss the meaning of what is being said even if it so happens that there are no trees in the park , or if all the trees happened to be the same age and none of them was an oak . |
| 11 | The woman happened to be quite wealthy , cheerfully handed him a large cheque as a gift — and he flew to Hawaii . |
| 12 | Behind him , Pipkin shivered in the damp and he turned and nuzzled him ; much as the general , with nothing left to do , might fall to considering the welfare of his servant , simply because the servant happened to be there . |
| 13 | The paths shown are those of the 7 rats in group fixed ( b ) and the 7 in group varied ( c ) on trial 85 when the landmark positions in the arena happened to be identical for the two groups . |
| 14 | We can see no reason why the court in the Leighton case should have regarded the equities as being any different , as between the mother and the chargees , merely because the land happened to be registered land . |
| 15 | And many an insect was saved , perhaps from the very same predator , by an uncannily close resemblance to a twig , on occasions when the predator happened to be seeing it at relatively close range and in a good light . |
| 16 | The weather happened to be cold , very cold . |
| 17 | In which case , if the informant happened to be working both sides of the fence , the connection might prove embarrassing for Asmar . |