Example sentences of "[pers pn] happen [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since their interest in the past was primarily moralistic , precise knowledge of actual events and when they happened was not required . |
| 2 | People who foresee airplane disasters before they happen are said to have this gift . |
| 3 | Mass stranding of whales are quite common , as in East Anglia last autumn But why they happen is still a mystery |
| 4 | Their understanding of how they happen is the same as ours . |
| 5 | The damage done can be much worse than from a fire — while the chances of it happening are much higher . |
| 6 | The odds against it happening are astronomical , but if it does , then so are the winnings . |
| 7 | I could n't swear that a thalidomide sort of accident will never happen again , but the chance of it happening are much less . |
| 8 | FROM the political activists to the ‘ do n't cares , do n't vote ’ the team from As It Happens are out and about on America 's streets . |
| 9 | Why and how it happens is unknown . |
| 10 | How it happens is another matter , and apparently undecided . |
| 11 | Ten years as it happens is not a lot different to eight years . |
| 12 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 13 | We , we are er Chairman involved in Redhill proposals in so far as we have submitted erm a series of er points to the local authorities concerned and tomorrow er as it happens is the date for the pre-enquiry meeting , the enquiry is due to be held er in I think late spring May er time , I 'm not sure of the exact date |
| 14 | There was a small group of young people who , as it happens were also associated with the bed-and-breakfast on Iffley Road , erm and several of them had moved between this house and the bed-and-breakfast . |
| 15 | QUITE HOW it happened is open to public conjecture , but from being ‘ just another band ’ a few milliseconds back , the sumptuous , swaggering pearls of suave currently referred to as Suede today find themselves the red-hottest property on a lukewarm market . |
| 16 | On that day he had also invested two new abbots , both sons of important magnates , who as it happened were friends of Anselm . |
| 17 | It is perhaps instructive to look in some detail at one accident report to see if the question as to why it happened was answered as well as the question of what happened . |
| 18 | The the last time that it happened was er on it must be maybe twenty year ago or so . |
| 19 | Well the people that done it did n't get caught but the corridor on which it happened was fined for all the equipment . |
| 20 | To seek it happen is very moving . |
| 21 | I suppose the organization which fails to make it happen is best characterized by a lack of truthfulness and openness . |
| 22 | Truly ungrammatical sentences are regarded as not resulting from any regular grammatical process ( e.g. ‘ I 've seen it happen is two girls fight . ’ ) . |
| 23 | I knew it must in theory , but to see it happen was still a lovely surprise . |