Example sentences of "it [adv] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | It thereby implicitly recognises that culture does indeed have a meaning different from that of beef or grain . |
| 2 | A man could not become completely impoverished , but it only rarely happened that anyone grew rich . ’ |
| 3 | It only afterwards transpired that the seedy man was not a reporter but his tutor , with whom he was not otherwise acquainted . ’ |
| 4 | Because it so rarely happens that we all treasure it when it does . |
| 5 | It just so happens that Irish national — popular consciousness interprets the presence of the British state in Ireland as a form of aggression and hence feel justified in repelling the British from Ireland . |
| 6 | It just so happens that Berlin has expressed interest in a loan show . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It just so happens that some people get taught or pick up techniques without too much problem ( because of circumstances and the people they interact with and learn from ) but some individuals simply do not get exposed to the right experiences to learn these things in quite the same way . |
| 9 | But it just so happens that the Alu family is particularly well equipped to spread by this route . |
| 10 | It just so happens that a framed photograph of Clarence Winchester in his 50hp Caudron biplane at Hendon circa 1915 adorns the Collectair office wall ! |
| 11 | It just so happens that for the past sixty years it has been . |
| 12 | It just so happens that if multiply this term by X plus two you get rid of the X plus two at the bottom do n't you ? |
| 13 | It just so happens that Paul had to make his visit there before going on to be decapitated somewhere else . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It just so happens that , before I came to this debate this morning , I was flicking through a pile of press cuttings when I came across one from The Journal ( Newcastle upon Tyne ) , a north-eastern regional newspaper . |
| 16 | It just so happens that this region includes the heartland of Charles the Bald 's kingdom . |
| 17 | ‘ It just so happens that I am . ’ |
| 18 | He was going to leave it tonight it just so happens that I 'm courting tonight |
| 19 | It just so happened that in Axelrod 's original tournament about half the entries were nice . |
| 20 | It just so happened that Mandy turned up at the afternoon surgery . |
| 21 | ‘ It just so happened that the Rachel killing was at that time . ’ |
| 22 | They seldom leave their home state of California : it just so happened that both were attending an international conference in Rome . |
| 23 | Although President Nixon may have come to the White House committed to ending the war in Vietnam , it just so happened that his way of ending it was to escalate it . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It just so happened that he , you know , he was alright , and the car was a right-off . |
| 26 | It just so happened that Geoff Mitchell , the PE master at Eaglescliffe , coached the decathlon at Middlesbrough and Cleveland Harriers . |
| 27 | It not infrequently happens that ambiguous readings are related in such a way that in certain contexts one reading entails the other . |
| 28 | It not infrequently happens that an exactly appropriate lexical partner that would complete a paradigmatic relationship is missing , but a lexical item exists , with virtually the required meaning , but of the wrong syntactic category . |
| 29 | Does not that demonstrate that low taxation , low inflation and good industrial relations are the basis for strong investment , including inward investment ; and does it not also show that the future of this country is excellent under this Government ? |
| 30 | Is it not absolutely clear that the ’ next steps ’ agency approach of the 1980s proved extremely successful in improving accountability , promoting a better service to the public and giving agency employees greater job satisfaction ? |