Example sentences of "[that] happen [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we arrive at six , the first thing that happens is roll-call to make sure that everyone is here , ’ says Kendall . |
| 2 | Everything that happens is by design and purpose . |
| 3 | Obviously it is not to be encouraged when you 're walking along with a bird on your glove , because the first thing that happens is the bird takes off . |
| 4 | Everything that happens is caused by something before it . |
| 5 | The first thing that happens is an inversion of proportion , dramatic as Alice 's through the mirror : little things grow big , and big things disappear . |
| 6 | And the next thing that happens is an E sound . |
| 7 | The next thing that happens is it 's announced a masterpiece . |
| 8 | So the first thing that happens is data gets er , imported into the spreadsheet here , and second thing that could happen is er , the unwanted records get deleted . |
| 9 | The only thing , time that happens is , that is you hear about , |
| 10 | And the big thing that happens is you you suddenly in the middle of differentiating start integrating or in the middle of an integrating start differentiating or you start doing taking you 've had enough of this so you start doing little short cuts like erm differentiating sine three X just as if it was sine X |
| 11 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
| 12 | Nature , Sickert insisted , is not going to sit still and wait till you have got what is there — all the most interesting things that happen are of the most momentary description . |
| 13 | And the next time I saw that happen was when erm Colin who was the coloured guy during the gulf crisis met erm our m John . |
| 14 | All that happened is that the electric field drew some charges to the surface of the dielectric which caused then some additional charges to appear on the surface of the conductor . |
| 15 | ‘ All that happened is that I over-reacted , ’ he said at last , after a very long pause . |
| 16 | Oh and the fourth thing that happened is the timbers , core samples were taken out of the timbers and they were sent for erm dendrochronology . |
| 17 | ‘ Under Reagan , everything bad that happened was either my fault or Nixon 's fault or Congress 's fault or some foreigner 's … |
| 18 | The last time that happened was with an Irish judge in the 1830s . |
| 19 | All that happened was that individual kings and individual magnates or magnate families sometimes came into collision . |
| 20 | All that happened was that the right to require his actual service was waived . |
| 21 | The next thing that happened was six years after the Select Committee . |
| 22 | Perhaps disappointingly , after all this thought to protection from viruses , we have not been seriously attacked : the worst that happened was an attempt to lead us into an adventure game . |
| 23 | The Edwardian and Progressive eras were rife with ideas of how film could develop but of all the possibilities the only thing that happened was that the showmen hung on to what they had discovered . |
| 24 | All that happened was a marked decline in the preferential finance made available by parastatal Kenyan banks ( Commonwealth Secretariat , 1985 : p. 26 ) . |
| 25 | All that happened was that her sexual needs became painful instead of grumbling and Alexander became unreal in her mind in a bad way . |
| 26 | All that happened was a series of complaints when the results of the overall programme began to affect spending in a particular field . |
| 27 | But er one of the paradoxical things that happened was that immediately men are faced with , for example , someone standing beside them with a stopwatch , |
| 28 | The only thing that happened was that Dad came into the kitchen where Oliver was crying because someone had broken the jar in which he kept his stick insects and said , ‘ What 's the matter , old chap ? |
| 29 | Yeah , the reason that happened was that there was no-one servicing holidays erm and they came to us for an allocation and and we gave it to them . |
| 30 | Everything that happened was just too pat , too convenient . |