Sentence examples for it merely happened from inspiring English sources

"Club officials said they had no policy prohibiting blacks before the Cane joined; it merely happened there were none," the Post reported at the time.

Underneath it, though, here was a man with no particular mission in politics, who merely happened to have a deep well of talent for its more artisanal side.

The lawyer for an off-duty prison guard accused of killing a school bus driver during an argument said yesterday that his client had merely happened upon a gun battle and had tried to stop it.

That success had happened; it had not followed; and he didn't deserve any praise for what had merely happened.

It's a super-concentrate of 1973, one that's been boiled away until anything that merely happened to be around then, rather than defining the age, has evaporated.

Clyde merely happened to be in the way.

Ireland merely happened to offer an extreme case, where "everyone knew".

The actors merely happened to be Irish-Americans playing charismatic characters in movies.

He had the misfortune to be an excellent composer who merely happened to be Czech.

Whether Pollock was actually influenced by Van Gogh, or merely happened upon a similar way of doing things through a similar artistic sensibility, is not clear.

The men, who were arrested, said that they did not know each other beforehand and had merely happened to be defacing the painting at the same time.