Example sentences of "happen that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It just so happens that Paul had to make his visit there before going on to be decapitated somewhere else . |
| 2 | In consequence , many Members who put their names down will have only ill-formed ideas about what they want and it frequently happens that Bills presented are ill-prepared or misconceived . |
| 3 | The poll asked : ‘ In building roads it sometimes happens that roads have to be built through or across sites of natural beauty or historical interest . |
| 4 | It so happens that Couvelaire spends one or two weekends a month in his old family home in Biarritz . |
| 5 | Oh yes , you get that , you get that kind of mimicry , but again you 'd expect it in , in , in both sexes I should think , unless it just happens that males for example normally are bigger and then it 's taken on a , a secondary characteristic which is a possibility . |
| 6 | Quite frequently it happens that mystics are deeply influenced by philosophy , even though they tend to decry ‘ the meddling intellect ’ . |
| 7 | It happens that Mr X 's preferred language is French , but even in that tongue he could not write or spell with any normal level of competence and his grammar was almost non-existent . |
| 8 | While it is not my intention to turn conventional theory on its head , it often happens that theories become accepted facts because people simply repeat them , without anyone ever questioning them . |
| 9 | It constantly happens that men with an unbroken record of success and public applause suddenly lay the burden down . |
| 10 | It just so happens that Berlin has expressed interest in a loan show . |
| 11 | It so happened that directors of the railway company who were house guests overheard this conversation and subsequently asked him if he would appear before the board and tell the story of his journey and travelling companion . |
| 12 | It so happened that Lady Thatcher was , at that very moment , engaged in a nasty altercation with the security men on the door of the Grand Hotel , having , in the excitement , forgotten to wear her conference badge . |
| 13 | It so happened that Hugh was the man who had been producing Tony Newley and he said to me after listening to those tracks that this was the most exciting thing to come into his room since Tony Newley which I thought was quite amazing since , some time later , David was quite infatuated with the work of Newley . |
| 14 | It so happened that Hazel had never seen a crow . |
| 15 | Well , it happened that Maureen and Aubrey were about to set off on a round-Britain motoring holiday . |
| 16 | It so happened that Clare and Mark were here tonight , but that was just chance . |
| 17 | And so it happened that Jenny came to live with Winnie Bailey , rejoicing in her new flat and the modern kitchen where she had full scope for her passion for cooking . |
| 18 | Because of the show 's alternation between historical tales and science fiction adventures , it happened that Barry Newbery wound up doing most of the stories in Earth 's past , while Raymond Cusick got the bulk of the sf material — an on-going process that tested his imagination to the limits . |
| 19 | It so happened that Mr. Allan Levy was appearing before him . |
| 20 | The armourers all slept in a long room on the first floor , with J. in a small room to himself at the end , and it so happened that Matthew occupied the corresponding small room immediately underneath on the ground floor . |
| 21 | All the same , if it happened that David made her with child , she would bear the child proudly , and be glad that she had brought him a degree of happiness . |
| 22 | It just so happened that Geoff Mitchell , the PE master at Eaglescliffe , coached the decathlon at Middlesbrough and Cleveland Harriers . |
| 23 | It just so happened that Mandy turned up at the afternoon surgery . |
| 24 | At this point it might well happen that blocks of shops and houses would be built down one side of the market place , taking the place of a number of stalls , and so creating the plan , described above , where the original open space is reduced to a broad main street , with a detached block of buildings down one side , behind which is a narrow back street , as at St Albans , or Kimbolton in Huntingdonshire , to speak of only two examples . |
| 25 | Miss Rene ignored Miss Belle 's remark and , turning again to Agnes , said , ‘ It should happen that Mrs Bretton-Fawcett had some bills outstanding and that she should at the same time require one or two hats for herself and an equal number for her daughter . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | How did it just happen that Harris could maintain his Offensive despite disastrous occasions like Nuremburg . |
| 28 | So it should happen that Mr Kirkley was at home when the guests arrived and was able to add to his surprise and not a little amazement when his daughter 's friend was delivered at his door by Raggie Aggie , for Aggie had long been a known character , she and her hand-cart , and now the pony-driven flat-cart ; and of course the fact that she was almost as broad as it was . |
| 29 | It may happen that individuals are taken over by the organisation and by groups within it , particularly where the corporate identity and image is a strong one . |
| 30 | Notwithstanding Bryden 's ( 1967 ) results , it may happen that subjects primarily attend to , as opposed to recall , information presented to the right ear in the absence of constraints to do otherwise ( Simon , 1967 ; Haydon and Spellacy , 1973 ; Levy and Bowers , 1974 ) . |