Example sentences of "thing happening [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Odds against the same thing happening at the count on February 20 ? |
| 2 | where branches are silouetted against the colours of the sunset they must be rich and strong enough to help intensify the sense of the light coming through then , but not so rich that they seem to close , or start to compete with the same thing happening in the ripples that form their reflection . |
| 3 | I remembered , however , that my father had told me of this sort of thing happening in the past , and the sands had always returned over the following few weeks and months . |
| 4 | So hopefully that 's going to stop this sort of thing happening in the future . |
| 5 | There 's a whole range of things from the Foreign Office downwards where they have made mistakes costing many millions of pounds and we shall certainly be wanting to take evidence from this area of activity just to see what went wrong and how it can be put right and how we can prevent this sort of thing happening in the future . ’ |