Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] happen " in BNC.

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1 Yet such direction rarely happens in a vacuum .
2 But then today that kind of interview rarely happens .
3 The auto industry just happened to be a convenient sector in which to show his determination to change ( Doner , 1987 ; Oman , 1989 : pp. 164–166 ) .
4 McInally 's agent just happens to be Denis Roache .
5 I think Alone In the Dark just happens to be one of those games .
6 If it is one of tantrums then the chart should go where the action usually happens — in living room or kitchen , for example .
7 Is it just to remain an afterthought , a theorization of a practice past , or is it to become a political intervention in a practice still happening ?
8 ‘ Do You Really Want To Hurt Me ’ was total '80s pop , all glamour , gold , harmony and , as they used to say in them days , like punk never happened .
9 I think in terms of public order and violence on the streets , then it 's to court disaster to wait until the disruption actually happens .
10 Our route just happens to take us that way . ’
11 The growth rate is modest , because Matisse was fully appreciated in the Seventies and the massive revaluations that were widely applied in the Eighties had in his case already happened .
12 Why had the promised Advent not happened ?
13 His pet tortoise just happened to choose the ‘ Matter Does n't Matter ’ chamber as a suitable spot for hibernation .
14 A software crash generally happens when you try to do something in the same way — i.e. the crash is repeatable .
15 The crash also happened just as NMW was expanding into other markets .
16 I tell residents this but the work never happens .
17 You 'd think there 'd be fear that the ploughman would suffer damage among the horse 's hoofs , but such was the bond between them that nothing of the kind ever happened . ’
18 If the population already happens to be dominated by genes for pathway 1 , selection will favour other genes for pathway 1 , and penalize genes for pathway 2 .
19 The vorticity intensification process will be strongest where the vorticity already happens to be large .
20 Beccaria just happened to think it was .
21 Credit was given in the claim to the cost of whatever property the plaintiff would have purchased in any event had the accident not happened .
22 Yet , if this is so , why did the accident not happen earlier ?
23 I 've actually seen them only once — Lawrence and I wandered in there one morning– the torch beam just happened to fall on a clutch of them sitting tight on the wall , right by my ear .
24 Michael had had a farm across the border , a lonely ruin near a place called Hackballs Cross , where it was said that men with guns had been known to train , and where certainly only the barest minimum of farming ever happened , enough to get the EC grants and little more .
25 It is impossible to imagine such an accident ever happening to the meticulous and super-observant John Gould , but Darwin was no ornithologist , and , as a naturalist , he had had little training in the disciplines of collecting or identification .
26 ‘ Before the band ever happened I was driving around Hammersmith roundabout and I saw ‘ Nude picture of Patsy Kensit ! ’ on a sign , and I remember being slightly jealous , thinking .
27 But if , by any chance , the reporter 's wife or husband also happens to be an Environmental Health Officer somewhere else , and happens to know that he or she is going off to do an interview , and say , ‘ Hey .
28 Yet a good deal of this diversification probably happened in the last 70 million years , during the Tertiary .
29 With a real war now happening , do the changes imposed on the defence industry ( or under active consideration ) still look sensible ?
30 Many situations where the glider is very low and flying slowly are insoluble quite a time before the accident actually happens .
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