Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] happens " in BNC.
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| 1 | However when cheek meets apathy , nothing apparently happens . |
| 2 | Alien is primarily a mood piece as well as a visual display — there are slow passages in which little happens , building up suspense for the main action scenes , the deaths of six crew members . |
| 3 | However , he rejects this view on the ground that although the redness of a red object is not something which merely happens to look red to us , since a redness which did not look red would not be redness , nonetheless ‘ red ’ does not mean ‘ looks red ’ since only one who understands ‘ red ’ can know what ‘ looks red ’ means . |
| 4 | They are the closest thing to a random selection of books printed in English that anyone might find in any shop , a fair sample of our literature which just happens to have been discarded as worthless . |
| 5 | During the 1970s several teams attempted to refute this claim , arguing that the connection is a figment of Arp 's imagination , that it is an optical illusion caused by the overlap of isophotes ( light contours ) from the two objects , or that it is an illusion caused by a star or galaxy which just happens to be located between the two objects . |
| 6 | We sometimes surprise ourselves as well as our near and dear ones by suddenly exploding into unreasonable anger over a trifling offence which just happens to be the last straw that breaks the camel 's back . |
| 7 | → I do n't think that our look at the Carlton Combo was anything other than a fair , unbiased review of a new product which just happens to incorporate a different technology along the way . |
| 8 | We shall be considering The Prelude as a poem at the appropriate point in the Critical Survey ; for the moment I propose to refer to it simply as evidence of Wordsworth 's internal struggles and preoccupations , as if it were a diary or a letter to a friend which just happens to be in verse . |
| 9 | Most philosophical systems of ethics , and most popular moralizing , are radically flawed because they recommend morality to us either as what it is in our own best ultimate interests to do , or alternatively try to promote it by appeal to our feelings , for example feelings of compassion , or ( like Hutcheson ) by reference to some kind of moral sentiment which just happens to be part of human nature . |
| 10 | It also means that any kind of thought not in tune with these imperatives is , by definition , unfashionable and will not prosper ; which just happens to suit our masters and mistresses very well indeed . |
| 11 | The user prepares a document using Berthold fonts and sends it to a bureau for output on an imagesetter which just happens to be running Hell-Xenotron 's Bridgit . |
| 12 | A random development , culturally reinforced , which just happens to be love rather than something else ? |
| 13 | The only thing they have in common is that they are all outgoing , extrovert , self-confident , irrepressible and generally sparky personalities — which just happens to be a pretty good recipe for attractiveness in a woman , as well as being the ideal make-up for sales . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Whereas normally people would have , in the O U P , U K , which just happens to be 6 out of 31 . |
| 16 | Fresh from the USA , the Expo makes its UK debut in Scotland from 5–7 March 1993 , which also happens to be the European Year of Older People . |
| 17 | Of interest is the Gothic cathedral in Magdeburg , the market square in Halle and the Bauhaus museum in nearby Dessau ( which also happens to be the birthplace of Händel ) . |
| 18 | We 'll never know if we do n't try it at Czerny 's tempo which also happens to be Beethoven 's for his Scherzo . |
| 19 | I 'm going to multiply it by another number which also happens to be a hundred to the power a half . |
| 20 | It does grow less from the time her grown-up children leave the home and this crisis , which often happens quite early in life , often disturbs her very badly ; but still she does not see herself thrown into total idleness and her role of grandmother brings her fresh possibilities . |
| 21 | Make sure nobody 's let one off and I do n't know about it which often happens . |
| 22 | One of the supreme blessings for the spiritual director is to watch his client surpass him … which frequently happens . ’ |
| 23 | Which occasionally happens , some of them are difficult to get rid of . |
| 24 | One of them , Mr Bob Monkhouse , the entertainer , said : ‘ Nothing ever happens here and we never see the police unless our burglar alarm goes off unexpectedly . ’ |
| 25 | Nothing ever happens there . ’ |
| 26 | Please have an article on this situation , not in London , not in Manchester , but a small town where people believe , rightly or wrongly , that nothing ever happens . |
| 27 | Er n nothing ever happens up there that 's why people are so disillusioned with politics altogether . |
| 28 | The intersection is on your route home , and you do it every day , and nothing ever happens . |
| 29 | Nothing ever happens on Just Like Home — that 's the name of the planet I live on . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's the kind of place that no one ever hears of , where nothing ever happens . |