Example sentences of "so [vb -s] that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He admits also that Buddhism displayed a tendency to participation as it spread out from India into other countries , though he fails to recognize the examples of participation which might be said to derive from the communal life of the sangha and so insists that it is the principle of identity that predominates . |
| 2 | The reader should not reject them outright if it so happens that they do not correspond to his own personal impressions . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 : |
| 5 | He does n't mean anything by it — it just so happens that he inflicts his pent-up frustrations on the person nearest to hand . |
| 6 | And it just so happens that I mentioned to one of my doormen that particular night that I could do with one of those machines to keep a careful check on my blood pressure . |
| 7 | ‘ It just so happens that I am . ’ |
| 8 | It so happens that I have an appointment with the PM this evening . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Now it so happens that I am in some small way , relatively well qualified to stand here in Lynda 's place . |
| 11 | ‘ Look , Mr Burns , it so happens that I was blessed with a pretty good voice . |
| 12 | He was going to leave it tonight it just so happens that I 'm courting tonight |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | With regard to the now unimportant four percent increase which then if you may made I 'm sure councillors deny it and if we are to believe the reason that we have to bring our rents to this level is because government policy so dictates that we shall do . |
| 15 | Not to do so means that they are not truly working in the best interests of the children . |
| 16 | Oh yes , now if by any chanc chance you do have a question in the exam where you 're asked you know instead of the wound being on top of the scalp , some clever so and so decides that you 're good at improvising and you 've got a wound over the top of the eyebrow , the eyebrow 's split , okay , so there would n't be much good of me going a minute , pull that there , trying like this round there |