Example sentences of "happen [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In London it 's only Annabel 's or Tramp — the rest do n't happen for the certain crowd , the newspaper-worthy crowd I 'm looking for . ’
2 This did not happen during the golden years of 1966–80 : over that period GNP grew by an average of 10.4% a year and the workforce by 4.7% .
3 It can happen during the growing period , during storage , on the farm , in the shops or in the home and is due to the presence of chlorophyll within the potato .
4 If the individual can always predict what will happen after the first drink then he or she is probably not alcoholic and may have no need of a 12 Step recovery programme and therefore can not be said to relapse if occasionally he or she gets drunk .
5 No we 've had er because this was erm a , a , a of erm concern here that we felt you know what 's gon na happen after the twelve months and I 'm pretty sure we had a circular round that said we would get two hundred pounds a week .
6 Many of us share some deeply felt worries about what will happen under the current procedures until the changeover takes place in 1993 .
7 What will happen under the Trevi proposals ?
8 And that will happen under the proposed N H S reforms , when the rather complex formula for allocating money within the N H S , is replaced by a much simpler formula .
9 The County Council 's environmental consultants had said of the inner northern routes , rather than damaging an irrepr irreplaceable sensitive landscape as could happen with the other routes , the inner northern route could be seen as a means of improving the landscape .
10 Not one of the little piece picking a little piece out , but an overall assessment and this was produced for the County Council by their environmental consultants and was specifically referred to in the County Surveyor and I think County Planning Officer 's joint report , and that er assessment said , rather than damaging an an irreplaceable , sensitive landscape as could happen with the other routes , the inner northern route could be seen as a means of improving the landscape .
11 This feeling of being addressed in a special , understanding way does not happen with the best children 's theatre , and greater credit could be given even to a young audience , with less recourse to pantomime-like delineation of character .
12 If we are to move towards transforming schools so that they deliver to young people a more appropriate and empowering kind of education than many of them currently receive , and if , as I have argued , this must happen with the committed participation of substantial numbers of teachers , then it follows that the promotion of integrity and self-respect amongst teachers is the most urgent challenge that education currently faces .
13 It becomes open to rational criticism , and to historical and other empirical checks , in ways which do not happen within the closed system of a community of fellow-believers .
14 Before moving on to the more advanced aspects of wave riding let us consider what should happen in the first attempts .
15 erm the paradox then says how can evolution possibly lead by natural selection to the selection of just that protein which best performs some function if , just by a random process of mutation it might never happen in the first place .
16 The Kerry babies story did n't happen in the 19th century .
17 We can now examine what should happen in the alternative situations outlined above .
18 Earlier statements that Japan must surrender all colonial possessions were reiterated but the precise fate of Korea was not clarified : Korea was to become independent at a future date but what would happen in the interim period remained to be decided .
19 This would happen in the following circumstances :
20 And that 's something that does not happen in the real world . ’
21 The answers to these questions are discovered from the diagram ( given certain simple diagrammatic transformations carried out by the system , which are structurally analogous to changes that would happen in the real world ) , rather than being computed in terms of abstract mathematical equations and specific numerical values .
22 The difference between the ego and id however is that if that is gon na happen in the real world , there has to be a cake there for you to eat .
23 That did not happen in the better days that have gone .
24 Nobody has convincingly worked out how such a distortion might occur , but the notion that odd things can happen in the solid state is firmly entrenched in many minds .
25 As yet , no one was prepared to worry about what might happen in the distant future .
26 Mr. Hughes : Had that happened , it would have been fine , but we know that it did not happen in the vast majority of cases .
27 This does not happen in the normal expansion of the universe in which the matter energy density goes down as the universe gets bigger .
28 Once that knowledge is gained , it can be used to explain events in the natural world , to make predictions about what will happen in the natural world , and thus to control that world and make it behave in ways that are , at least in theory , to the advantage of the controllers .
29 Sadly , the Great Central Railway were unable to confirm that this will happen in the foreseeable future .
30 Hare wondered whether geographers could get away with posing as being simultaneously earth scientists and social scientists and this is what did happen in the ensuing decade .
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