Example sentences of "[prep] it happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | If changes in conditions disrupt the precise replication of parental characters so as to yield hereditary variation , then , providing only that some of it happens to be adaptive , this will suffice in the long run for selection as a cause of adaptive species formations . |
| 2 | It 's true I think er as Mr said at some length er that er this measure would not prevent hunting in in most of the area in which it it takes place , through plenty of it happens of course well to the West of the A six er perhaps it might even get out there from time to time but our duty clearly is to see er that the right thing is done in the territory which is our responsibility and our other responsibility is surely to set an example of decent humanity . |
| 3 | That what she said at Bruges , before any of it happened , was a tablet of stone — so that the nation state is the foundation of her Europe . |
| 4 | William Troy in the Nation was similarly unable to find the right words to explain the greatness of It Happened One Night and he suggested that ‘ a good photoplay , like a good book or a good piece of music , remains always something of a miracle ’ and that ‘ beyond a certain point the mind is forced to bow down before its own inability to unravel and put together again all the parts of the shining and imponderable whole with which it is dealing ’ . |
| 5 | In many places the film opened to boycotts and demonstrations but several distributors suggested that these could have been avoided by the use of a more innocent title along the lines of It Happened in Mexico . |
| 6 | In the event , none of it happened . |
| 7 | Most of it happened thanks to tireless negotiations with opera houses , TV crews and recording companies in the west , but it has not so far turned out to be anything like a pact with the devil . |
| 8 | Were they scared of it happening again ? |
| 9 | The damage done can be much worse than from a fire — while the chances of it happening are much higher . |
| 10 | I have certainly heard of it happening in the present day , but the old methods are dying out as people become alienated from the countryside they live in . |
| 11 | Obviously throwing a bucket of water over them is n't going to do a lot of good , so if there is a likelihood of it happening , you 'll need to be prepared . |
| 12 | ‘ There is a reasonable chance of it happening and there is a collective will to support it ’ , Cunningham believes . |
| 13 | Such successes may be short-lived , but the possibility of it happening at all is a dimension to be considered by the major political parties . |
| 14 | And you 're also summoned that on that same occasion you not having given your name and address to any person requiring it at the time , you failed to report the accident at a police station , or to a constable as soon as reasonably practicable and in any case within twenty four hours of it happening again , that 's an offence under section twenty five of the road traffic act to that effect do you plead guilty or not guilty ? |
| 15 | He declined to speculate on dates , except to say that he saw no sign of it happening next year ( 1992 ) ; there was too much backlog to be mopped up . |
| 16 | There was only a million-to-one chance of it happening . |
| 17 | He 'd secured her with practised ease , and so fast that she had n't even been aware of it happening . |
| 18 | Sometimes they see things — people embracing , people dancing , people undressing — and they 're terrified of it happening to me . |
| 19 | ‘ Micky , you 've said that for a fortnight , and there 's no sign of it happening . |
| 20 | Everybody gets phone calls like that , unfortunately occasionally , but it kind of I went through a phase of it happening to me so I therefore had to change my phone number because it was er it was really unpleasant being woken er up by these calls . |
| 21 | when they come , you 're bound to get a picture in the paper of it happening . |
| 22 | Yet in the late 1930s there were few signs of it happening . |
| 23 | It was only later , after they had become engaged , that he had seemed to change , so slowly at first that she was scarcely even aware of it happening until , one day at a party given by a fellow student , someone , she could n't even remember who , had planted a playful kiss on her cheek . |
| 24 | Her car had broken down , she had as good as lied to her parents , and had somehow managed to offend the man whom her sister would bend over backwards not to offend — and now she had just practically told Cara , when there was n't the remotest chance of it happening , that the damnable interview was in the bag . |
| 25 | We have lived in this peaceful west Stirlingshire village for 32 years , and thought the risk of it happening to us was negligible . |
| 26 | I could n't swear that a thalidomide sort of accident will never happen again , but the chance of it happening are much less . |
| 27 | It was obviously a very serious outbreak last year , what are the chances of it happening again ? |
| 28 | Nearly everyone is still troubled by the memory of what happened , and all hope nothing like it happens again . |
| 29 | There is no sign at all of this or anything like it happening . |
| 30 | But , even after this year 's advances , it would still require the biggest swing to Labour since 1945 to achieve it : the odds remain stacked heavily against it happening . |