Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | It so happens that Couvelaire spends one or two weekends a month in his old family home in Biarritz . |
| 34 | It so happens that another growing tendency in contemporary thinking has been undermining the whole approach which leads to it . |
| 35 | ( If it so happens that yellow wallpaper does take away your appetite , then for you it is relevant . ) |
| 36 | As we shall eventually see , it so happens that the latter point is probably correct , but it is not a conclusion that follows directly from the results of the Terman project , for the following reasons . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | It so happens that amongst the Nuristan Kaffirs in a remote mountain valley of Afghanistan , ‘ horns ’ have this aggressive manly sexual connotation . |
| 39 | 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 : |
| 40 | It so happens that in this example , ( 1 ) and ( 3 ) are false . |
| 41 | ‘ It so happens that SUPPLYKITS also needs more cash . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | It so happens that the descendants of the original Indians whose raft capsized were also in charge of another raft that capsized at about the same point in the river . |
| 44 | It so happens that for some distance the Gill itself forms the boundary between that estate and the Manor of Coniston , although it is possible that the boundary between the two manors was rather ill-defined at that time . |
| 45 | The reader should not reject them outright if it so happens that they do not correspond to his own personal impressions . |
| 46 | The old sunset-defying British Empire stands out even better , and it so happens that the main fossiliferous parts of it fall on a non-equatorial great circle , thereby providing ample ammunition for the polar wanderers . |
| 47 | It so happens that other chemists , supporting more conventional organic ‘ primeval soup ’ theories , have long accepted that clay minerals would have been a help . |
| 48 | For it so happens that the developed societies over-value certain kinds of mental operations , like logic . |
| 49 | It so happens that I have an appointment with the PM this evening . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | Now it so happens that I am in some small way , relatively well qualified to stand here in Lynda 's place . |
| 52 | ‘ Look , Mr Burns , it so happens that I was blessed with a pretty good voice . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | It so happened that the novelist 's wife had a younger brother at this Academy who knew Ivanov . |
| 56 | It so happened that the UN Secretary-General , Perez de Cuellar , was himself a Peruvian . |
| 57 | ‘ It so happened that No 5 Air School was not far away from the mine where Churchill hid during the Boer War , ’ Clifford recalls . |
| 58 | It so happened that Hugh was the man who had been producing Tony Newley and he said to me after listening to those tracks that this was the most exciting thing to come into his room since Tony Newley which I thought was quite amazing since , some time later , David was quite infatuated with the work of Newley . |
| 59 | It so happened that this entailed doubling back a considerable way of the route , but , so Mr Charles assures me , my father accepted the request as though it were a perfectly reasonable one , and in general , continued to behave with immaculate courtesy . |
| 60 | 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 . |