Example sentences of "[conj] it [adv] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 But it just so happens that the Alu family is particularly well equipped to spread by this route .
3 Which in itself was no lie , but it just so happened that she 'd never been allowed to join the other children in such frivolous pastimes , she reflected with a touch of resentment .
4 The Council declared that the Church of Christ is to be found here , but it no longer says that it is not to be found anywhere else as well .
5 In 1660 the Company of Royal Adventurers had been formed to look for gold , but it very soon realized that the switch to using slaves in the West Indies to grow sugar had transformed the trading situation , and that the Dutch had done very well out of the new developments in the British West Indies .
6 A man could not become completely impoverished , but it only rarely happened that anyone grew rich . ’
7 Because it so rarely happens that we all treasure it when it does .
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