Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] happen [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reader should not reject them outright if it so happens that they do not correspond to his own personal impressions . |
| 2 | But it so happens that we can compare the situation during the years 1070 to 1123 with a similar train of events at Canterbury just a hundred years later . |
| 3 | Now it so happens that we can make the same substitution of forms in an otherwise completely different sentence , producing an exactly parallel change of meaning : |
| 4 | Moreover we can discuss the meaning of what is being said even if it so happens that there are no trees in the park , or if all the trees happened to be the same age and none of them was an oak . |
| 5 | It so happens that I have an appointment with the PM this evening . |
| 6 | Well it so happens that I did intend you to do a paramount of talking this afternoon , so it 's quite convenient in a way that we are being recorded . |
| 7 | Now it so happens that I am in some small way , relatively well qualified to stand here in Lynda 's place . |
| 8 | ‘ Look , Mr Burns , it so happens that I was blessed with a pretty good voice . |
| 9 | It so happens that I can remember the firsts serious poem that I wrote and published , which was actually when I was in my mid-twenties . |
| 10 | Try to pick out the sense of what I am saying For instance , it so happens that my grandson , Henry now works in the Marconi laboratory . |
| 11 | I speak from the heart here , as it so happens that my sister is to be married this month and my mother is trying her hardest to organise the wedding that we ( never mind my sister and fiancé , these things are family affairs ) , want . |
| 12 | General Francis said it so happened that he owned the fishing rights on a fairly respectable stretch of water . |
| 13 | It so happened that it turned out a good thing that it did n't get posted , but that was just a lucky chance . |
| 14 | It so happened that it fell to the lot of Geoffrey Holton and Chris Protheroe to do the donkey work in the Lusaka accident , but it could have been any of the twenty or so investigators in AIB . |
| 15 | It so happened that there was a vacancy in the mission field in Ireland at that time . |
| 16 | It just happens that I do which is really why I was interested in doing the book . |
| 17 | It just happened that I was doing it in a unique way through the business world of women . |
| 18 | So I set out to have a go at the Station side , but it just happened that there was also a scratch side called the C.N. Lowe 15 . |
| 19 | ‘ … one was a female pauper of very advanced age who had laboured for many years under a complication of incurable disorders , and her situation was so desperate as to have precluded her from being received into the House had it not happened that she was the first patient presented . |
| 20 | It also happens that they are ugly , deadly places , far more hostile to life than any part of a nuclear power station . |
| 21 | It often happens that we wish to change the status of the bistable outputs with successive lock pulses . |
| 22 | ‘ It often happens that one who at first was listening gladly becomes exhausted and now opens his mouth no longer to give assent but to yawn , and even involuntarily gives signs that he wants to depart . |
| 23 | it often happens that someone is sent here who is unsuitable . |
| 24 | Talking of restrictions , it often happens that your client wants to develop a property that is subject to old restrictive covenants in a manner that would be a breach of covenant . |
| 25 | It sometimes happens that you want to find a particular book but you have forgotten , or never knew , the name of the author . |