Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] it happens " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus free enterprise — the pursuit of fair profit , the generator of wealth and employment , the backbone on which social welfare is possible — can be viewed , at least by corporate officials , as the primary ethic for and of an industrial society , and conformity to this neutralizes any obedience to the law merely because it happens to be the law . |
| 2 | Just write it all as it happens . |
| 3 | So when it happens what happened when it happ When that happened to you , what did you do ? |
| 4 | The ‘ new conservatives ’ have made it worse by arguing , incorrectly as it happens , that since the children of the élite for the most part ( and for both genetic and environmental reasons ) become the élite , then the elaborate process of selection may as well be shortened and a plain hereditary principle reintroduced . |
| 5 | In the nineteenth century , it was possible to see female castration as a cure , just as it happens these days that women request cosmetic surgery to make their genitalia look ‘ more tidy ’ . |
| 6 | Madam chairman , er just as it happens er I 've I 've been in conversation with Mr assistant |
| 7 | Yes , yeah , but again as soon as it happens let us know . |
| 8 | There 's a local telephone number , which I 've already had occasion to use , unsuccessfully as it happens , and , I think , Anne , you were also involved in that significant problem , on er on that there is a loc er no plumber . |
| 9 | Even if it happens that I have made a firm decision to commit suicide , and have been wondering for weeks how to cheat the insurance company , the failure to jump would accord with my intention only by chance . |
| 10 | I hope that the succeeding chapters will go at least some way towards building flesh and sinew , face and character — even if it happens to be , as on Tafahi island , a North German face and character — on to the dry , lifeless bones of economists ' figures . |
| 11 | Erm well as it happens it 's er that , this is something I wanted to bring up with you . |
| 12 | Well as it happens , this . |
| 13 | And so it seems self-evident that the subject of language should also draw on a cognate disciplinary source even though it happens in this case to have the different name of linguistics . |
| 14 | Make sure you 're there when it happens . |
| 15 | One way to endure severe abuse is not to be there when it happens . |
| 16 | You were there as it happens . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't know that I wish to be tossed anywhere as it happens . |