Example sentences of "happen [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A simple fade-to-black ( a common technique used in the Sixties ) gives the artists a few vital seconds to reposition themselves before the fade-up suggests action happening the following morning . |
| 2 | Now the tragedy is of course , is it 's happening the other side of the table as well is n't it ? |
| 3 | Most of the , what has happened I think , over the last two and half years , that I 'm aware of , erm , is basically happening a long time before that , I , I ca n't say yes or no . |
| 4 | Right , now , the next item is the press and we have a press officer , yeah , like to , perhaps say what 's been happening a little bit and , and you know talk about the next time . |
| 5 | When this happens the authoritative directive does make a difference . |
| 6 | Where this happens the intervening cause is known as a novus actus interveniens and breaks the chain of causation between the defendant and plaintiff . |
| 7 | ‘ It generally happens the other way round : it 's the mother who 's possessive of the son . |
| 8 | It often happens in rapid speech that a nasal consonant disappears when it comes between a vowel and another consonant ( for example , this may happen to the in ‘ front ’ : when this happens the preceding vowel becomes nasalised ( some of the air escapes through the nose ) . |
| 9 | They may feel at the time very sincere about their forgiveness but if that is all that happens the old feelings of misunderstanding and bitterness can swiftly recur . |
| 10 | When this happens the thin walls of the tubes are able to buckle , the helical fibrillae can then straighten themselves out and so the cell is enabled to elongate under the tensile load by something like 20 percent . |
| 11 | The comparison can be taken further ; as with child abuse in the home , people either believe it happens the whole time or not at all . |
| 12 | In a year , it 'll add up to over a hundred thousand pounds — if that happens the social services department says it 's budget will be so stretched it may be forced to make cuts in other areas . |
| 13 | The effect of this is to slow the molecules down and as this happens the kinetic energy associated with moving particles is converted into potential energy . |
| 14 | Because when my government does see the pattern — you 're quite right they do n't want to see it right now and my D-G is n't helping them — but when these people do the next thing , and it 'll have to be something big — they 're up against a deadline on Berlin they 've already escalated it from forged documents to drugging people to shooting them God knows what comes next well when something new happens the lone psychopath theory will be dead , dead , dead . |
| 15 | When this happens the naked crab can sometimes evict the other by direct aggression . |
| 16 | When this happens a new fang quickly grows to replace the lost one . |
| 17 | Bladder control at night sometimes happens a long time after control in the day , and as with daytime training , it 's best to wait until a child shows signs of being able to develop control . |
| 18 | The process happens a precise number of days after flowering , and , if this has not occurred or been finished when the fruit is harvested , it will not ripen a jot more , whatever a street vendor swears . |
| 19 | Fact : whenever the NME staff get all babyish and gooey over a band , I get suspicious because it happens every other week . |
| 20 | It happens every single day . |
| 21 | There is as it happens an Anglo-Saxon proverb analogous to Lord Acton 's , but still significantly different . |
| 22 | look what happened the communist just fell , fell on his face without a one shot |
| 23 | As it happened the new ramp section was only just rescued from a bulldozer in the nick of time as the skate scene said a final goodbye to Andover skatepark . |
| 24 | She did n't even know at what point friendship had turned into love , and if she had realised it when it happened the new bud of feeling might have blossomed crazily into hopeless longing and tongue-tied need … or perhaps it would have frosted away and died . |
| 25 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , my son , who was only a very small boy when you last saw him , happened the other day . |
| 26 | What happened the other day was wrong . |
| 27 | When the moment came , it happened the other way round . |
| 28 | ‘ I hope you do n't think I would use what happened the other night in any way to try and influence you . |
| 29 | And a perfect example happened the other day — Kidlington School was burnt down . |
| 30 | I emphasize this to make clear that what happened the following weekend was as unforeseeable as a plane falling on your house . |