Example sentences of "happen a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When this happens a new fang quickly grows to replace the lost one . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As it happened a political upheaval in Indonesia in 1965 – 66 ( in which American contacts with the military in Indonesia may have played a part ) brought an unexpectedly early end to the confrontation with Britain . |
| 7 | Sometimes you will be directly addressed by the characters — this is something which happened a great deal in Greek and Elizabethan theatre ( for example , look at the speech by Chorus in Act 4 , scene 1 of Henry V , which draws the audience into the atmosphere before a battle enormously effectively ) . |
| 8 | But this , as he would say , is a long story , and happened a long time ago . |
| 9 | After all , these things happened a long time ago . |
| 10 | Historical events that happened a long time ago . |
| 11 | I do n't know when this story started but it certainly happened a long time ago . |
| 12 | She swallowed hard and began , ‘ Well , the Big Bang happened a long time ago . |
| 13 | But then , all this business happened a long time ago . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't see the relevance of something that happened a long time ago . |
| 15 | It happened a long , long time back in the town of Posen . |
| 16 | ‘ It happened a long time ago , my dear , when we were quite small , romping in the wood . |
| 17 | In Central Japan , a naturally unfolding experiment has revealed that the key to the host 's defence is learning , which can happen a great deal faster than was previously thought . |
| 18 | If we were in fact to promote trickle transfer that would happen a great deal more than it does currently . |
| 19 | The hungry sheep seem to look up in vain to their religious leaders and , if this was the whole reality , it is surprising that the Reformation did not happen a good deal earlier . |
| 20 | ‘ And all we shall have to do is to stick together and confess that this dreadful accident did happen a little bit earlier and we all felt devastated but there was a full house and we all felt we owed it to the public that the show should go on . |
| 21 | As though all this had happened a long time ago . |
| 22 | Once I noticed the familiar gap in a row of houses like the space left by a drawn tooth , but I could not be certain that it was the result of bombing and if it was it had happened a long time ago . |
| 23 | The hurt itself may have happened a long time ago , and may even be something that you have forgotten all about . |
| 24 | ‘ The theme of the story was that something very sinister had happened a long time ago which had left the planet looking entirely different from anywhere you could see on Earth . |
| 25 | They reminded Lucien of something that had happened a long time ago , but he could n't remember what . |
| 26 | It seems to have happened a little bit quicker than planned , ’ he joked . |
| 27 | In order for this to happen a decentralised partnership between residential workers and social service teams is required , which ensures joint participation and influence in child care decisions . |
| 28 | But for that to happen a Great Russian culture had to be identified and fostered . |