Example sentences of "[adv] happen to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the fields below happen to be large , they may get down safely , but a safe landing is often due to luck rather than to good judgement . |
| 2 | But these just happen to be his , he ca n't ‘ prescribe ’ them ‘ for art ’ ; what he wants to say must come to terms with what the form allows him ; art refuses to be imposed upon , to be dictated to , and Dostoevsky 's dictum will stand . |
| 3 | Earthworms are the main item in a badger 's diet and cow grazing pastures just happen to be a good source of earthworms . |
| 4 | As with the intertidal communities , coral reefs flourish in regions that just happen to be especially favoured . |
| 5 | What is in question is the comfortable argument that socially acceptable forms of work organisation always just happen to be those that are the most efficient . |
| 6 | You know , just happen to be passing when they 're going out of school . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I just happen to be the exception . ’ |
| 8 | Fil continues : ‘ We just happen to be in this bit … ( much laughter ) … of no money and knowing what it 's like to have no prospects . |
| 9 | And they just happen to be two of the best tracks . |
| 10 | And they just happen to be attached to a saint ! |
| 11 | I was received as a thief , a well-mannered rapist , bucketless car-washer , double-glazing runner , not to mention corrupt informant that some of them tiles is loose , Ma 'm , and we just happen to be in the area with a long ladder so why not call it eighty quid ? |
| 12 | Very often , these mutually unintelligible and exclusive ethnic cultures just happen to be the same as the groups which common sense tells us are ‘ races ’ . |
| 13 | Endless ads have been Green or organic , from the guy who rips his plans up to wreck the countryside and earns himself a beer , to the couple in the deodorant ad who just happen to be frolicking naked in the forest with camouflage make-up . |
| 14 | We just happen to be more lucky at laying hands on them than most . |
| 15 | It helps if you play for Swindon Town , or just happen to be a Formula One motor racing champion , but could we persuade Peter to add a Television Presenter to his collection ? |
| 16 | And some of them are good fun pop in their own right they just happen to be done in a foreign language and with different cultural influences . |
| 17 | They will doubtless say we are lucky , but we just happen to be house-owners with a steady income , like millions of others . |
| 18 | They just happen to be transmitted differently . ’ |
| 19 | and you just happen to be taller and heavier than James |
| 20 | Frederick Campbell , when District Judge at Tangalla , also noted that cattle stealing prosecutions were identical : ‘ For example , no two parties ever happen to be together , and witness the removal of a stolen animal , one sees the removal at one , and another at another place , whilst a third sees the removal of the flesh . ’ |
| 21 | It is beyond chance that all of these species also happen to be animals ; plants , perhaps inhabiting the same regions as these animals , have disappeared without even the briefest of epitaphs . |
| 22 | Where the shareholders also happen to be the directors , and a close personal trust and confidence is involved , the courts have been willing to look at the settlement of arguments on the basis of equity rather than strict legal principle . |
| 23 | But it has become difficult to convince those hypochondriacs who also happen to be cat owners that there is no danger . |
| 24 | If they also happen to be living alone , we can make all the difference to the monotony of their existence by arranging to take them out regularly . |
| 25 | If they themselves also happen to be immigrants they can be deported . |
| 26 | It thus seems likely that the junctions which are recalled may be simply the large congested ones , ones which also happen to be risky . |
| 27 | Most ‘ carers ’ simply happen to be those nearest relatives who find themselves in an unwanted , unsought and very stressful situation . |
| 28 | He drops , or there happen to be dropped , sore words like ‘ Napoleon ’ and ‘ axe ’ into his discourse . |
| 29 | Products tend to be misplaced or even completely lost or they get in the way but somehow they never happen to be available when wanted . |