Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] [that] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It duly emerged that the Iraqi incursion amounted to a four-pronged attack , partly in the south near Basrah and partly farther north along the frontier , to the east of Baghdad , in what later evolved into the ‘ central front ’ . |
| 2 | This time , things proceeded in a more civilised manner and the arrangements concluded at the imperial conferences were enshrined in the Statute of Westminster 1931 , s.4 of which provided , amongst many other things , that for the future , no Act of the imperial Parliament should extend to any of the six Dominions listed above unless it expressly stated that the Dominions in question had requested and consented to the |
| 3 | In Wyatt v Kreglinger and Fernau [ 1933 ] 1 KB 793 the restraint was contained in a letter dealing with the plaintiff 's retirement rather than in his contract of employment and it effectively said that the defendants would pay him a pension if he refrained from working in the wool trade . |
| 4 | Auguste failed to see the hidden tensions and passions behind these simple manoeuvres ; to him it only signified that the banquet had acquired a reality . |
| 5 | Now it so chanced that the king of the country passed through Marko 's village , and he saw the golden-fleeced ram and set his heart on it . |
| 6 | It so happened that the novelist 's wife had a younger brother at this Academy who knew Ivanov . |
| 7 | It so happened that the UN Secretary-General , Perez de Cuellar , was himself a Peruvian . |
| 8 | It so happened that the first person to come a cropper on the steps was the warden Jane Cartwright , who was a good deal younger and more agile than those in her care . |
| 9 | It so happened that the string hung on a sprig of an elder that grew out of the mote , and this confirmed them that ‘ t was the Devill . |
| 10 | It so happened that the Missions to the Adult Deaf and Dumb of Ireland were seeking a missionary , and Maginn applied for the position . |
| 11 | It so happened that the firm I had been working for ( manufacturers of rubber-coats , ground-sheets , etc. ) had closed down the Glasgow Office and factory , and I was without work . |
| 12 | It so happened that the mainspring of my clockwork mouse had broken that very morning . |
| 13 | It so happened that the dresser at the Shield gave notice , and Dinah decided that she herseelf could teach Lilian to make herself useful in that and other ways . |
| 14 | The forces of evil must have been working smoothly that day because it so happened that the spot he chose was the position within yards of the epicentre of terror that had frightened the railwaymen so many years earlier . |
| 15 | It so happened that the very train that ended Mr Cubbage 's life was carrying the delayed mail and in one of the mail bags was a letter from Coleen agreeing to Mr Cubbage 's proposal of marriage and saying that she was coming home to her lover . |
| 16 | It so happened that the results were incredibly good — 29 out of 30 pupils passed in the English Language paper , 27 in English Literature … |
| 17 | It so happened that the Gulf War in Kuwait was filling our attention , and so I switched on a video tape whenever something attracted me and I found that I would be most likely to record the daily sessions on the BBC 's Newsnight with Peter Snow discussing the disposition of troops over the battle zone using a visual aid which is now known as the sandpit . |
| 18 | It so happened that the summer was an exceptionally hot one , the yield of tomatoes in the region was unusually high , and " taking advantage of this wonderful opportunity , two thousand 2 kilo cans of crushed tomato were manufactured and despatched at once to the Savoy Hotel . " |
| 19 | It so happened that the last person I asked , over coffee in his room , was the biology master . |
| 20 | It so happened that the crossing sweeper had blood of the same group as this rich Brahmin lady . |
| 21 | It so happened that the local station was still waiting on the True Brit for recognition of a tidbit passed on to that paper six months ago about a rural dean and a lady elephant-tamer . |
| 22 | Now if it so happened that the A sixty one was seen as a marginally shorter route , then the model would have sent all the through traffic along the A s sixty one and none along around the bypass . |
| 23 | It swiftly transpired that the document handed to the fathers for discussion was not that drawn up by the Preparatory Commission , but one revised by members of the Commission who were also members of the curia . |
| 24 | The Grammar School at Wigan was almost equidistant between London and Glasgow , and it naturally followed that the bulk of the passenger traffic passed in the middle of the day . |
| 25 | As it happened , it merely meant that the monster had sprouted two heads . |
| 26 | It merely said that the president had never told it to question Kenya 's one-party system . |
| 27 | To some , however , it merely appeared that the C C P were pragmatists and that by nineteen fifty were sacrificing ideological objectives for economic and political expediency . |
| 28 | It just seemed that the Ferrari superiority was such that racing must be terribly boring for all the rest of the drivers . |
| 29 | ‘ For example , we recently looked at one that had come in where it just happened that the course staff needed two dozen luxury executive residential homes to accommodate them , with a lovely view of the 18th , of course . |
| 30 | From Maslyukov 's statement it already appeared that the proposed rules on referendums on secession required a vote in the whole Soviet Union , not just in the republic concerned . |