Example sentences of "it [adv] happen [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it only happens since we put clocks forward . |
| 2 | She supposed it was magic , probably it only happened when you swung your head up in a certain way , she would test that tomorrow , and as she dropped asleep it lay alongside the tickets of paper with the numbers she had written , and the tar bubbles and the sun that made red horses and brown splotches when she closed her eyes . |
| 3 | It so happens that this troublesome question , or complex of questions , is not raised by the piece in Eliot 's selection that I shall take to represent Pound 's criticism at its irreplaceable best . |
| 4 | It so happens that this rate is exactly the output of the building industry , averaged over the previous three years . |
| 5 | It so happens that the Roman collections , which cover a geographical area from Britain to the Middle East and North Africa , fall within the interests of several departments of antiquities . |
| 6 | ‘ Look , it so happens that a number of people have dropped out of the scheme for one reason or another , and there 's now a place for you at the end of the team . |
| 7 | It so happens that the names Upehull , Upsall and Upshall occur in the records of one very small village — the first in a lay subsidy roll of 1327 , the second in a manorial court roll of November 1550 , and the third in a number of documents down to the latest twentieth-century electoral rolls . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It so happens that Couvelaire spends one or two weekends a month in his old family home in Biarritz . |
| 11 | It so happens that another growing tendency in contemporary thinking has been undermining the whole approach which leads to it . |
| 12 | ( If it so happens that yellow wallpaper does take away your appetite , then for you it is relevant . ) |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It so happens that amongst the Nuristan Kaffirs in a remote mountain valley of Afghanistan , ‘ horns ’ have this aggressive manly sexual connotation . |
| 16 | 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 : |
| 17 | It so happens that in this example , ( 1 ) and ( 3 ) are false . |
| 18 | ‘ It so happens that SUPPLYKITS also needs more cash . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The reader should not reject them outright if it so happens that they do not correspond to his own personal impressions . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It so happens that other chemists , supporting more conventional organic ‘ primeval soup ’ theories , have long accepted that clay minerals would have been a help . |
| 25 | For it so happens that the developed societies over-value certain kinds of mental operations , like logic . |
| 26 | It so happens that I have an appointment with the PM this evening . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Now it so happens that I am in some small way , relatively well qualified to stand here in Lynda 's place . |
| 29 | ‘ Look , Mr Burns , it so happens that I was blessed with a pretty good voice . |
| 30 | 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 . |