Example sentences of "[vb -s] happened in " in BNC.

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1 This structural awareness can be as hard to handle as any decision to try to publish the account , for what has happened in the past and what is expected now from the insider is tied up with an understanding of how the institution of policing prefers to present a restricted image for outside consumption , as I have described above .
2 Does he know what has happened in Tranent ? ,
3 It has happened in France , Cameron felt like saying , and then the thought of the gulf between France and Scotland came over him so dauntingly that he suffered a backwash of despair .
4 His name has been moderately conjured with by British academics , but there have been few attempts to systematize his work for the classroom , as has happened in the United States .
5 Among serious writers and readers in the United States ( as distinct from shallow and modish Anglophiles mostly around New York ) , it is taken for granted that Pound 's caustic dismissal of us in 1929 was justified , and that nothing has happened in the forty-five years since to alter that picture significantly .
6 What has happened in the past half century , apart from the advance of technology , has been the erection of a firm framework of regulation , the appearance of specific safety technologies , such as industrial hygiene , and the advance of the idea that safety can and must be managed .
7 Look what has happened in the last few days .
8 All that vast enlargement of educational opportunity which has happened in the century since then and continues to accelerate has not robbed their vision of its truth nor their example of its value .
9 It is no more partisan than my description of what has happened in the universities . )
10 A lot has happened in the seven months since Ford unveiled its new Escort range — and not much of it in accordance with its £1 billion master plan .
11 A quick scan to see if anything has happened in my department .
12 This has happened in at least two cities , Halle and Karl-Marx-Stadt , where young party leaders have replaced their ‘ old guard ’ predecessors .
13 Nothing that has happened in Czechoslovakia or in the wider world since that time has diminished the willingness of the Czechoslovak people to accede to this wish .
14 Given what has happened in Britain , certain enterprises could lend themselves to being sold to the Polish public who , surprisingly , might have few difficulties putting up hard cash to buy shares .
15 In the past five years that has happened in fewer than 15% of the cases ; not a single officer has been found criminally liable .
16 This is only the fifth time this has happened in 20 years : the others were in 1970 , 1973 , 1974 and 1981 .
17 It is that time when I gather up all that has happened in my day , and all that is going to happen today .
18 We only start to talk about sacrifice with our children when something seriously wrong has happened in the relationship , when the mother or father says bitterly : ‘ Do n't you understand what I have given up for you ?
19 His own development proposals were regarded as alien and imposed from outside , again as has happened in developing countries .
20 Describe what has happened in a story and predict what may happen next .
21 But if the average size of a household has fallen at the same time ( this has happened in the UK ) then the income of each person in a household may have risen .
22 Whatever the reason , such additional matters are fully covered on other programmes and attention to them , or even comment on what has happened in the House , distracts from , and reduces time for , the proper reporting of Parliament .
23 What has happened in the modern period is a deviation , not a development : a deviation that is failing economically , socially , environmentally .
24 A salesman whose last two months ' returns fall below the required norm may be thought to be failing , until one knows that this is the first time that it has happened in five years .
25 More unhappiness and depression is caused because the person who is suffering spends too much time regretting or resenting what has happened in the past or anticipating fearfully what may occur in the future .
26 Nothing has happened in the interim to alter substantially the conclusion of Mr Attlee 's Engine Room that
27 Notwithstanding this debate , what precisely has happened in terms of environmental change in the Sahel in the last two to three decades ?
28 Liverpool seems unique , not simply because of the scale of its problems but also because of the consistent pattern of political conflict that has characterized so much of what has happened in the city and in its relations with central government .
29 In case anything noteworthy has happened in Vienna these last few weeks , relevant to our enquiry , that is . ’
30 Perhaps the best way of illustrating just how this operates in practice and how far-reaching its effects can be in terms of building up the involvement of an entire school community in a philosophy and policy for the future is to show what has happened in one Lincolnshire school .
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