Example sentences of "it can happen [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can happen while driving a car over a familiar route , and it can happen while reading predictable passages of text . |
| 2 | It can happen that the business side assumes a dominant role in the diagnosis of educational problems and the formulation of solutions and that education is less than whole hearted in its co-operation with business . |
| 3 | It can happen that when an assistant is helping somebody to get dressed , the person suddenly gets violent . |
| 4 | For it can happen that more cloth is produced than is used , and , as a result , also more machines , iron and coal than is necessary . |
| 5 | In some cases , it can happen that the correct voltage is obtainable simply by connecting a Zener across the output . |
| 6 | It can happen that the aggression is directed outwards . |
| 7 | Ideally this should be done before candidates are interviewed but it can happen that differences in preferences for candidates reveal different opinions between board members which the chairman can detect and deal with . |
| 8 | It can happen that the children of N form a continuum , C where tnR , and N = C , and f ( C ) is a smooth function of t . |
| 9 | Yet it can happen that the momentum of the previous plan ( or previous chief executive ) is still pulling in one direction whilst the new plan ( or chief executive ) wants to go in the other direction . |
| 10 | Occasionally it can happen that a peripheral device in your computer may fail and bring the whole installation to a halt , even if you do not use that particular facility . |
| 11 | It can happen that at the time of the sale the seller is not the owner ( and thus is in breach of the condition in section 12 ) but that he subsequently obtains that ownership , e. g. by buying the goods from their owner . |
| 12 | It can happen that the ownership of one person is subject to certain rights which someone else has over the goods . |
| 13 | It can happen that there is some doubt about someone 's title 7–11 to goods , e.g. a finder 's title . |
| 14 | I mean , you think you give birth and you 're forgotten , I mean your health visitor visits your baby , and then you 've got the baby blues , and we we are trying to do something to get them to help and warn people about when they are pregnant it can happen because it does start then , not after you 've had the baby , it builds up and them wham , it hits you ! |
| 15 | ‘ Clean your shoes , one shoe in the bedroom means ten years in the penitentiary , our Gladys was the maddest it can happen if you let it , clean your shoes , your shoes , mud sticks , six and tuppence , please , oh no you 're not getting away with that you 're not getting away with that , it can happen . |
| 16 | y y i it can happen and apparently sometimes does that the young man will receive a recycled wife who is in fact the mother of a daughter who has married his father and so he calls her the daughter-mother , her actual mother is his wife . |