Example sentences of "happening [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed one of this form of revisionism 's characteristic positions is to stress localised events happening as a result of localised pressures rather than as responses to larger national happenings or , especially , to articulated ideological movements . |
| 2 | I know that he feels great distress at what is happening as a result of Government inaction on this matter . |
| 3 | All this is happening against a background of spending cuts imposed by local authorities upon their colleges so that the growth in demand has not been matched by an increase of the capacity of the further education system in Wales to meet this demand . |
| 4 | This is a very brief overview of some of the aspects of Homoeopathy and a view of the world which may help to shed a little light on what is happening with a person 's health . |
| 5 | Right great and what happens what seems to be happening with a base and an acid or an acid and a base ? |
| 6 | FRS 3 will also effectively kill off extraordinary items — the ASB is adamant that any geographical or political event happening within a company 's environment should be counted as part of normal business risk — and reduce what ASB chairman David Tweedie has seen as the abuse of earnings per share . |
| 7 | You expect me to know all the details of what is happening in a legion of divisions ? ’ |
| 8 | He had a powerful impression that the programme was happening in a vault . |
| 9 | What 's happening in a blast furnace ? |
| 10 | Although they have chosen to deal with personal dilemmas , the songs in Mama Mozambiki can also be seen as metaphors for what is happening in a nation struggling to overcome years of civil war fuelled by South African destabilization . |
| 11 | Although they have chosen to deal with personal dilemmas , the songs in Mama Mozambiki can also be seen as metaphors for what is happening in a nation struggling to overcome years of civil war fuelled by South African destabilization . |
| 12 | Was it really happening in a world where women can be lawyers , prime minister , soldiers or just about anything ? |
| 13 | If you do not understand what is happening to a patient or the rationale behind any action you are asked to take , be sure to find out . |
| 14 | Locality , class , race and gender are central in serious crime happening to a person . |
| 15 | At one point he inserts the comment , ‘ you will want cause and effect ’ , as a prelude to a ludicrously far-fetched explanation of what has been happening to a character in one of the text 's interstices ( Pynchon 1975a : 663 ) . |
| 16 | Others will talk about themselves as ‘ he ’ or ‘ she ’ and describe what is taking place as though it were happening to a character in a television play . |
| 17 | It 's er just what 's been happening to a lot of folk , sinus trouble . |
| 18 | Do you know if this was something that was happening to a lot of people , at that sort of time in nineteen thirties ? |
| 19 | 3.17 In Bayley v Bloomsbury Health Authority ( Kemp & Kemp , Vol 2 , para E3-012 , Henry J said , in making an award to a student nurse who had suffered a prolapsed lumbar disc at the age of 20 , that there was a world of difference between such an injury happening to a victim at that age as opposed to the age of 33 , the age of a plaintiff who had suffered a comparable injury in a case to which he had been referred . |
| 20 | Frau Geller murmured something to her companion about it never happening to a woman unless she 'd been asking for it . |
| 21 | It is not difficult to form a physical picture of what is actually happening at a re-entrant such as a crack , especially if we consider the matter upon a molecular scale . |
| 22 | And yet this is happening at a moment when the leaders in question stand exceptionally low in public esteem . |
| 23 | All of these changes were happening at a time when the rapid expansion of television was encouraging even greater isolation . |
| 24 | All this was happening at a time when the Canadian Northern Railway was creating , in effect , a third transcontinental railway , built on much more economical lines than the exceptionally expensive and high-quality GTP . |
| 25 | All this was happening at a time of deep recession worsening by the day with unemployment rising to two and a half million , redundancies up by forty percent in the first four months of ninety one . |
| 26 | Ernest Bevin was in the chair when Vyshinsky inquired what was happening concerning a peace settlement with Japan and proposed that the assembled foreign ministers should proceed with it . |
| 27 | This is a very central issue for any sociology of the global system in so far as it makes the difference between a dismal chronicle of inevitability , which is absolutely not my intention , and an attempt to illuminate what is happening by a theory of what makes it happen and , by implication , what could make other things happen in other ways . |