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 | His pet tortoise just happened to choose the ‘ Matter Does n't Matter ’ chamber as a suitable spot for hibernation . |
| 13 | A software crash generally happens when you try to do something in the same way — i.e. the crash is repeatable . |
| 14 | The crash also happened just as NMW was expanding into other markets . |
| 15 | I tell residents this but the work never happens . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The vorticity intensification process will be strongest where the vorticity already happens to be large . |
| 19 | Beccaria just happened to think it was . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Yet a good deal of this diversification probably happened in the last 70 million years , during the Tertiary . |
| 26 | With a real war now happening , do the changes imposed on the defence industry ( or under active consideration ) still look sensible ? |
| 27 | Many situations where the glider is very low and flying slowly are insoluble quite a time before the accident actually happens . |
| 28 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 29 | But this jealousy actually happened because it was a question of making a decision without actually thinking through the consequences of it . |
| 30 | And if a commercial building which suffers multi-million pound damage also happens to be a ‘ prestige ’ target , then so much the better . |