Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transport only happens , apparently , when a motor is started . |
| 2 | ‘ However , nothing that we expect ever happens . ’ |
| 3 | Recharge normally happens in the winter or rainy season . |
| 4 | And then Clelia sighed heavily , and looked sadly at Clara 's Japanese wooden egg puzzle , which she had been trying all this while to do , and said , " How very dull for you , to hear all about my affairs , but I do so like to tell the story of my life , it makes me feel as though things hive re ally happened to me , whereas otherwise they seem not to happen . " |
| 5 | Dysart just happened to be the one she chose . |
| 6 | Unbeknown to Mark , one of the titled politicians present also happened to be an international banker and financial advisor to several US corporations . |
| 7 | good , that ties in with , you know , what we know actually happens in real life . |
| 8 | We described what we believe usually happens . |
| 9 | His delight first makes itself evident during his solo for Lise even though technical mistakes keep on happening . |
| 10 | The question of questions was at bottom this : the nineteenth century , with its partial proof of evolution and its axiom that miracles do not happen , enabled the chance of historical enquiry into the life and work of Jesus through the testing of ancient documents . |
| 11 | ‘ HOSTILE takeovers do not happen here , because of our culture ; they are against our way of doing business . ’ |
| 12 | It is unnecessary as regards persons whom the husband has not by his previous conduct induced to look to him for payment ; it is ineffectual as regards those who do not happen to see the advertisement . |
| 13 | The nemesis for this pure empiricism is that some ‘ megatrends ’ may be greatly exaggerated ; the outcome of some social and political conflicts may be wrongly estimated and some ‘ megatrends ’ may be omitted altogether , if they do not happen to slot into the chosen classification system . |
| 14 | Thus we should guard against any immediate and unreasoned reaction to the idea that they might ultimately be widened to encompass individuals who do not happen to be human . |
| 15 | The Blessed Sacrament Chapel , which gives emphasis to the necessity of private prayer , also speaks eloquently , as indeed do the different centres around the diocese for eucharistic adoration ; such initiatives do not happen by chance . |
| 16 | Because of this modern definition of miracles many people seem to think miracles do not happen very often today . |
| 17 | It becomes open to rational criticism , and to historical and other empirical checks , in ways which do not happen within the closed system of a community of fellow-believers . |
| 18 | Only too often Old Testament criticism , especially historical criticism , has been marred by the introduction of unjustified rationalistic assumptions ( e.g. that miracles do not happen ) . |
| 19 | If you happen to be a policeman , however , or a friend of one of the ‘ lads ’ , but do not happen to share their attitudes towards black people , you are in an even more awkward and complicated position ; how can you avoid being spoken for by those who ‘ represent ’ you in the text ? |
| 20 | The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner , but that they reflect a certain underlying order , which may or may not be divinely inspired . |
| 21 | Although these cases do not happen often , if you are assaulted or threatened by a client in the ES takes it very seriously . |
| 22 | If that was an isolated incident I am sure that the Minister will join me in apologising for it , but will he look at distribution methods to ensure that such incidents do not happen on any scale ? |
| 23 | Whole schools do not happen because the head alone has a greater view of the school , they occur because everyone 's view of the school is extended and embraced ( Southworth 1988:327 ) . |
| 24 | Significant moments in history do not happen without some kind of advance warning . |
| 25 | C&P has fully investigated the incidents and is taking steps to ensure they do not happen again . |
| 26 | They have been successful … the crime rate in the city is down by five hundred offences a month … there are only one or two displays now a week … but they do still happen . |
| 27 | Sometimes they break a bone without any known injury ; at other times fractures do n't happen when you might expect them most . |
| 28 | ‘ It will take a long time , we are just emerging from the dark ages , but things do n't happen if you do n't make them . |
| 29 | You see things in New York that do n't happen in London . |
| 30 | ‘ You see things here which do n't happen in London . |