Example sentences of "happen [be] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is happening is that women have shown their competence in practice and this has helped to change machista attitudes . |
| 2 | An outcome such as 4 raises A's utility to and B's to Intuitively , what is happening is that A 's loss of utility from the reduction of her own income is being more than compensated for by the knowledge that B 's income is also falling . |
| 3 | The Unionist MP Ken Maginnis , a former UDR member , said : ‘ What I hope is not happening is that people who — as I would have had in my time — had montages for lawful and necessary purposes will be made scapegoats . ’ |
| 4 | A lot of the times what is really happening is that people are being put into artificial jobs . |
| 5 | Our assessment has always been , and continues to be , of a very … complex kind , because what is happening is that people are getting feedback from us all by working with us . |
| 6 | What seems to be happening is that Valerie is adopting a " Jamaican " persona in which irritation may be shown more freely ( but also , perhaps , less threateningly ) to a person 's face . |
| 7 | Little did we know that G P T did n't actually write the software properly , and what was happening was that people writing new numbers in were knocking out the old numbers , alright ? |
| 8 | What actually happens is that Carol answers her own question — in London English , with " don " remember when it was " . |
| 9 | And what happens is that females , females have pouches that produce eggs but they only hold a small , they only hold a small volume . |
| 10 | Briefly , what happens is that chapters 1 and 2 of Book III take Aragorn , Legolas and Gimli from the 26th to the 28th February ; chapters 3 and 4 lead Pippin and Merry from the 26th February to the 2nd March ; chapters 5–7 return to Aragorn and his companions and ‘ leapfrog ’ them past Merry and Pippin again to the 4th March ; while in chapter 8 these two sub-groups of the fellowship meet again on the 5th , for Merry and Pippin to bring their story up-to-date again in recounted narrative . |
| 11 | So , what probably happens is that women at the bottom of the social heap in the United States , having poor health care , high stressed lives , crime , drugs and all these kind of problems , probably have more spontaneous abortions , therefore the sex ratio away from males towards females , whereas women at the top of the social scale , low stress lives , good health care , better maternity erm medicine , stuff like that , retain more foetuses , therefore you 'd expect them to have more males , and this is what seems to happen . |
| 12 | What happens is that negotiations take place . |
| 13 | Sugar , in his sworn statement , said : ‘ Venables said what usually happens is that people would meet Clough in a motorway cafe somewhere , and that Clough would be handed a bag of money . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ He said what usually happens is that people would meet Clough in a motorway cafe somewhere , and that Clough would be handed a bag of money , ’ said Sugar . |
| 15 | I 'm sure a lot of Councillors were gob-smacked , and what happened is that Councillors were caught on the hop . |
| 16 | sort of like what happened is that Robert was sort of like , the three of us sort of chipped in and bought it between us and stuff like that you know , so that all three of us would get the benefit of it |
| 17 | I think what happened was that Nick had been hanging around waiting to get hold of her . |
| 18 | What happened was that farmers , seeking more land , encroached into the flood plain where the river had split into a number of channels . |
| 19 | I think what was in the village news it arose out of those children 's survey down there and what happened was that Mrs did n't think we 'd er put in perhaps as politely as we should . |
| 20 | How that happened was that Darren , the apple of her grandmotherly eye , was kicked out of the Rainbow Crche for spitting and language , so she dragged him all over till she found the butis . |
| 21 | ‘ He told me that what actually happened was that people would meet Mr Clough in a motorway service station and that Mr Clough would be handed a bag of money . |
| 22 | What happened was that speakers gradually and variably began to use open [ α : ] in environments where [ a : ] had formerly been used : the process was one of substitution rather than change sensu stricto . |
| 23 | I think the danger is , though , that what will happen is that hotels will shed staff |
| 24 | What will happen is that staff will go behind the bike sheds . ’ |
| 25 | But what does happen is that people are directed away from blighted homes we know that that happens , it happens all the time , as soon as a home 's name is mentioned social workers , quite honourably believe that there 's no sense in putting down people 's names , no no sense in sending people there and you would expect nothing different from them so it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy . |
| 26 | Instead what seems to have happened is that groups of adults have sat around in various political and educational ivory towers , deciding in an arbitrary and subjective manner what they think a 14-year-old should be able to achieve . |
| 27 | The reason this has not happened is that Eurotunnel 's fares fed into the model are not based on its costs . |
| 28 | However , what actually has happened is that accidents for the 16–19-age-working groups have increased , so the comparison is hardly reassuring ( Guardian 19.8.89 ) . |
| 29 | What had happened was that O had been at home , not sleeping , thinking about Boy at six in the morning , and he had called up and said , ‘ Are you watching TV , ’ to which Boy had replied , as the man had heard , ‘ Yes , ’ and then O had told Boy to turn over to the boxing ; he 'd just said , ‘ Get up and change to the third channel . |
| 30 | What seemed to have happened was that Scotland 's economic cycle had gradually moved out of synchronisation with the national one . |