ocurrir
happen ; occur ; occur ; take + place ; come about ; go on ; transpire ; come to + pass ; play out ; go down.
Everything that happens in the couple's tiny, shrunken, enclosed world is addictive, unglamorous, and boringly awful.
Various desirable features will be incorporated into a package which may not occur to the new user as being of importance.
In DOBIS/LIBIS, this occurs only when entering multiple surnames.
This substitution takes place only in the online public access catalog.
In the next chapter we look at how this development came about and the directions it has taken.
How she ached to be a poet and by some wizardry of pen capture the mysteries going on out there.
The 2nd is the fact that most information seeking transpires with little help from librarians, who have consistently failed to establish themselves as primary information professionals.
The most devasting consequences predicted in 1980, such as the loss of small presses, have not come to pass.
The author discusses access, censorship, and privacy, looking at how these issues are played out in legal debates over copyright law.
If anything is going down here it's woman-hatred, not man-hatred, a veritable war against women.
atento a lo que ocurre alrededor
with an ear to the ground
If we want to market to teenagers, we need someone with an ear to the ground who really knows what they want these days.
averiguar lo que ocurre alrededor
put + Posesivo + ear to the ground
The article is entitled 'The library buzz: the School Library Journal puts its ear to the ground in Oregon and Texas'.
cambio + ocurrir
change + take place
The author examines changes likely to take place and warns local library and information services of the need to adapt to reflect these changes = El autor exmamina los cambios que probablmente sucedan y advierte a los sistemas bibliotecarios y de información locales de la necesidad de adaptarse a ellos.
catástrofe + ocurrir
disaster + strike
Because any library is susceptible to a variety of potentially serious disasters, it is unreasonable to wait until disaster strikes.
como ocurre en estos casos
as is the way with these things
As is the way with these things there were two conflicting criticisms levelled at the joint code.
como + ocurrir + en el caso de
as + be + the case for
Some library material may be not be borrowed at all, as is the case for undergraduates who wish to borrow reference material.
cuando a Alguien le ocurre Algo, Otra Persona sufre las consecuencias [Usado para expresar la influencia que alguien tiene sobre otro]
when + Alguien + sneeze, + Otro + catch cold
When the Library of Congress sneezes, we all catch cold.
esto no ocurre en el caso de
the same is not true (for/of/with)
The same is not true, of course, of the humanities or social sciences, where the method is less likely to be successful.
hacer que ocurra
cause to + happen
By virtue of Bush's lack of leadership, he said, the president more or less caused it to happen.
lo mismo ocurre con
the same goes for
The same goes for other common abbreviations such as St and Saint.
mantenerse atento a lo que ocurre alrededor
keep + Posesivo + ear to the ground
The article 'Keeping your ear to the ground' discusses the skills and knowledge information professionals need to have in today's IT-rich climate.
¡Ni se te ocurra!
Not on your life!
I believe that if I were to ask my colleagues, 'Shouldn't we be collecting blogs?', they would rightly reply, 'Not on your life!'.
no decir a Alguien lo que está ocurriendo
leave + Nombre + in the dark
It is not a case of politicians and officials being 'in the know' while business and the general public are left in the dark.
ocurrir en el futuro
go into + the future
My third and fourth points concern two things that go into the future that will cause us to think freshly.
ocurrirse a Alguien una idea
hit on/upon + an idea
And so the editors hit upon a wonderful idea - they would take those articles that were too long to be included in the printed version of the journal and publish them on the web.
ocurrírsele a Alguien una idea
think up + idea
The committee thought up the idea about a decade ago, when fund-raising cocktail parties failed to raise sufficient money.
ocurrírsele a Alguien una solución
come up with + a solution
Using Microsoft technology, she came up with a solution that satisfied all our requirements in a very short period of time.
ocurrírsele a Uno
come into + Posesivo + mind
come to + Posesivo + mind
it + occur to + Nombre/Pronombre
cross + Posesivo + mind
According to Coates, this results in headings whose first component is the most likely to come into the mind of the searcher.
Other questions come to mind: Will there still be paper books printed? Will libraries still carry these.
It occurred to him that the library might subscribe to his boyhood home town newspaper.
While he supports the fight for gay marriage, the 70-year-old star recently confessed tying the knot never crossed his mind.
ocurrírsele la idea
come up with + the idea
The working group also felt that the new service ought to have a distinctive name and came up with the idea of AID (advice and information desk) later changed to Aid in order to avoid misinterpretation as Artificial Insemination by Donor!.
ocurrírsele un plan
come up with + a plan
In other words, they want us to start from scratch and come up with a plan for a full-service center, which might then be used as a model for the other regional centers.
ocurrir todo a la vez
happen + all at once
If you are lucky this will not happen all at once!.
pregunta + ocurrir
question + pop into + Posesivo + mind
The question that popped into my mind, is that I don't believe any of our users ever saw our card catalogues as an integrated point of access to all the information they needed.
¿qué ocurre si ?
what if... ?
One of the most frequently asked questions is 'What if I need to cancel my registration?'.
ser algo que no ocurre con frecuencia
be a rare occurrence
be a rare sight
Scientists once thought that deep-sea volcanic vents were a rare occurrence.
A full-sized spare wheel is an increasingly rare sight in the boot of today's car.
ser lo último que + ocurrir + a Alguien
be the last thing of + Posesivo + mind
Till now the comfort of fans has been the last thing on the minds of many clubs.
si no ocurre ningún imprevisto
all (other) things being equal
Some of the modern evidence supporting the law of demand shows that, all other things being equal, when the price of a good rises, the amount of it demanded decreases.
tener que ocurrir
be bound to happen
It was bound to happen, and the formula for success has been laid down.
todo ocurre por algo
everything happens for a reason (and a purpose)
'Everything happens for a reason,' several of them told me last fall, when I was suffering through a string of losses = "Las cosas no pasan así porque sí," algunos de ellos me dijeron el otoño pasado, cuando atravesaba por una serie de pérdidas.
todo ocurre por una razón
everything happens for a reason (and a purpose)
'Everything happens for a reason,' several of them told me last fall, when I was suffering through a string of losses = "Las cosas no pasan así porque sí," algunos de ellos me dijeron el otoño pasado, cuando atravesaba por una serie de pérdidas.
