Example sentences of "[adv] it happen " in BNC.

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1 How long it happens for
2 And so it happens in Court 13 .
3 And so it happened that Jenny came to live with Winnie Bailey , rejoicing in her new flat and the modern kitchen where she had full scope for her passion for cooking .
4 And so it happened .
5 The officer waited out in the corridor and so it happened that , on leaving , one of the nurses in a hurry to get home said : ‘ You could take her flowers if you 're going back in . ’
6 So it happened that both Polybius and Posidonius were involved in exploring the lands of the West , and more conspicuously the lands of France and Spain — with the consequences which I hope to illustrate in my next lecture .
7 The less it happened the more important it became .
8 Thus it happened that in November 1989 , more than six years after the matter had first come to light , he was charged with two offences of offering an advantage to Mr. Turner , contrary to the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance ( Laws of Hong Kong , 1987 rev. , c. 201 ) .
9 Think of some of the actions which have led you to form instant opinions about others , either favourable or unfavourable , and you will realize bow quickly and easily it happens .
10 Clearly it happens to er underline the fact that the United Kingdom economy is in much better shape when compared to the economies of our principal European competitors .
11 Now it happens that when some substances crystallize they find it easier to do so if some kind of irregularity is present .
12 Now it happens that everyone 's instinctive belief that the best site is at the ‘ centre of gravity ’ of the sources and markets is incorrect in this problem — the best site tends to be at the source or at a dominant market in many cases : this point failed totally to emerge .
13 Now it happens that this particular part of the beaver 's brain , because of its position in the total wiring diagram , is involved in the beaver 's dam-building behaviour .
14 Now it happens all the time , and there is absolutely no way at all with the best will in the world , and I 'm sure that we all mean it , that we get on the phones at nine o'clock , and we get on the phones at eleven o'clock , you just do n't work like that .
15 Exactly the same thing had happened in pop music and now it happened to art — hype , control , block-buying .
16 Now it happened that a few days earlier Jones had called up Lee R. Phillips , an attorney associated with Brigham Young University , in order to file a patent arising from his muon-fusion work .
17 How often it happens
18 so many so very often it happens but for me too I shall go just half an hour
19 Quite frequently it happens that mystics are deeply influenced by philosophy , even though they tend to decry ‘ the meddling intellect ’ .
20 Well it happens , and it 's made possible because he does it by his spirit .
21 Well it happens does n't it ?
22 Erm well it happened some time between about two and six
23 he 's given me a life line , so jolly well it happened and enjoy life .
24 she said well it happened to me , it 's the chemicals on the skin of the fruit and the tomatoes , that 's what brought your spots on and after a couple of days or whatever they went away .
25 Well it happened .
26 ‘ Eight months ago it happened ! ’ said Gabriel .
27 ‘ The thing is I would rather it happened here than against Southend when we start the League on Saturday . ’
28 Sometimes it happens spontaneously .
29 Sometimes it happens that after a number of successive doses like this , the patient will have the beginnings of an aggravation : the medicine should be stopped for two to four days ( or a few hours in acute disease ) and in order to continue treatment you want to give the remedy now in a more diluted form : from the first cup ( not the bottle ) take one teaspoonful and dilute it in another cup , and one teaspoonful of this solution should be given to the patient .
30 ‘ Those extensive powers are conferred upon the court for the beneficial winding up of the company , for sometimes it happens that the liquidator is unable to obtain from unwilling persons the information which he requires .
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