If they played the drum, a great calamity would befall them, perhaps even death.
However, ' ' beforeness' ' and ' ' afterness' ' are not accidents that befall the parts.
The consequentialist is concerned with the harms and benefits that befall the moral community (agents and patients).
Such a fate has befallen the present volume, a minor but inevitable fault.
The remainder of the book relates the puzzling new adventures that befall them on this alien planet - including a meeting with the narrator's doppelganger counterpart.
For them, one might assume, the perpetrator lost his dignity by his own deeds and is therefore responsible for the calamity that befalls him later.
Many industrialists found it almost impossible to concede that harm befell their employees as a direct consequence of their employment.
It often befalls the paediatric cardiologist to initiate counselling while providing the expert information concerning the abnormality and its optimum management.
