Example sentences of "[noun pl] do [adv] happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Changes do n't happen overnight but the feedback I get is there 's now greater visibility of managers and supervisors . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ The soundalike things do n't happen very often . |
| 5 | These things do n't happen . ’ |
| 6 | Fortunate that things do n't happen all at the same time . |
| 7 | She thought again , Things do n't happen like this — not to people like me . |
| 8 | Marsden explained that hospital social workers had negotiated their role in discharge in the 1970s , when the Freeman Hospital had been built — ‘ discharges do n't happen without social services input ’ — and had then spread the same working practices to Newcastle 's other two acute hospitals . |
| 9 | " Miracles do n't happen , so God does n't exist . " |
| 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 | Because of this modern definition of miracles many people seem to think miracles do not happen very often today . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ HOSTILE takeovers do not happen here , because of our culture ; they are against our way of doing business . ’ |
| 14 | The major Western degenerative diseases do n't happen in an instant — like infective diseases — but appear to creep up on us slowly as a result of years and years of bad eating . |
| 15 | Although these cases do not happen often , if you are assaulted or threatened by a client in the ES takes it very seriously . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Sometimes they break a bone without any known injury ; at other times fractures do n't happen when you might expect them most . |