Example sentences of "[adj] do happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | This did happen frequently for a variety of reasons , but it was usually because of a worsening of weather conditions either at home base or over the target area . |
| 2 | This did happen but not quite as Seth intended as the casket was washed ashore near the city of Byblos on the Syrian coast , close to the base of a young tamarisk tree . |
| 3 | If this does happen , the only solution seems to be to disconnect the instruments and to pump air through the system to blow out the water and dry the tubing . |
| 4 | Often the referee does not hear the final bell and allows the bout to continue , but even if this does happen , no points can be scored . |
| 5 | If this does happen , it could remove the phosphates that come from non-agricultural sources — up to 50% of the total . |
| 6 | If this does happen the interviewer will have a rather embarrassing situation to overcome before going any further . |
| 7 | When this does happen so much depends on the attitudes of the court for the safeguarding of freedoms which are nowhere written down as such . |
| 8 | That this does happen is well known . |
| 9 | ( However , this does happen occasionally and the relocation companies report that their services have been used for senior new appointments and for technical specialists . ) |
| 10 | However , it is important to note that such relationships , although dormant for a while , potentially can be reactivated and there is evidence that this does happen ( Firth , Hubert and Forge , 1970 , p. 155–6 ) . |
| 11 | If this does happen , put one tray back in the oven to keep warm . |
| 12 | Where this does happen , employers must accept that they are discriminating . |
| 13 | One might expect this to include advisory visits , aid with the development of study skills and so on , and to some extent this does happen . |
| 14 | This does happen occasionally and when all else fails it is as good an excuse as any , since it puts the blame firmly where it belongs , on the fish 's shoulders not the fishkeepers . |
| 15 | The main significance claimed for the market for corporate control as an efficiency- inducing device is not so much that companies are actually taken-over and inadequate managements displaced , though of course this does happen and is regarded as a valuable effect of the mechanism , but that incumbent managements fear take-over and hence will do all they can to make the company efficient and the share price correspondingly high . |
| 16 | There are few examples of their being scattered extensively and repeatedly used within a single text ; where this does happen , as for instance in Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin , the practice can readily be justified by its thematic significance ( on which see further below ) , as again can be seen to be the case with the cornucopia of excrement that Robin drops on to the deservedly victimized Jouglet . |
| 17 | I think at this stage we could define for Sandra though , so that we ensure that this does happen and it happens throughout , as and when things run out . |
| 18 | Not much sad did happen . |
| 19 | ‘ Why I 'm proof the impossible does happen ’ |
| 20 | Except when there was a crisis , and these did happen , even on Friday afternoons , vast shockwaves suddenly jarring the normal smooth running of the system . |
| 21 | But if the worst did happen , the necessary conditions for a depression — a dramatic collapse of economic confidence , and the inability of governments to restore it — might well be met . |
| 22 | With Lloyds Bank Accident Cashguard cover you 'll have the security of knowing that if the worst did happen , at least you can be financially prepared . |
| 23 | With Lloyds Bank Accident Cashguard cover you 'll have the security of knowing that if the worst did happen , at least you would be financially prepared . |
| 24 | After all , he told himself , if the worst did happen and she conceived a child , they could advance the wedding . |
| 25 | Well er er quite a lot of peasants did join because they , presumably they were motivated by land reform , er it 's clear that that did happen |
| 26 | Because that did happen to you did n't it ? |
| 27 | If that did happen , should we try to intervene , should we offer to put in some sort of peace-keeping force or should we just leave them to it ? |
| 28 | But — and it 's this sort of complication that makes him I think such a remarkable man — although that did happen then , for the next ten , twelve years , he was entirely preoccupied , almost entirely preoccupied with something else , and this something else erm originates from the other revolution that he underwent at this time , a revolution that occurred after a visit to an international mathematical congress in Paris , where he met the Italian mathematician Peano . |
| 29 | There is objective evidence that something odd did happen near Roswell in 1947 . |
| 30 | I know that does happen . |