Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NZRFU rather prides itself on its official-player liaison , of treating its players handsomely , and it rather hopes that they in turn would treat the NZRFU with courtesy , if not affection . |
| 2 | One thing is certain , that the last Lord Derwentwater , not long before his death , was frequently at Keswick , but according to Green it is not equally certain , that he then ( as is affirmed by some ) inhabited the house upon the island ; on the contrary , it rather seems that his being at Keswick , was only on visits from his family place at Dilston . |
| 3 | It eventually got that they were typed and put into cellophane covers which made it a lot easier . |
| 4 | A drop of soap trickled into his eyes and he rubbed it only to find that he had created more pain . |
| 5 | Not only is it little consolation , he wrote , it is actually a further cause for despair , for it only shows that everything is far too late , that the glass was a dream of lateness and the work on the glass was a fantasy of lateness and the belief in the glass was the madness of one who has lost all sense of the meaning of lateness . |
| 6 | The reader should not reject them outright if it so happens that they do not correspond to his own personal impressions . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 : |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It so happens that I have an appointment with the PM this evening . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Now it so happens that I am in some small way , relatively well qualified to stand here in Lynda 's place . |
| 13 | ‘ Look , Mr Burns , it so happens that I was blessed with a pretty good voice . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | General Francis said it so happened that he owned the fishing rights on a fairly respectable stretch of water . |
| 18 | It so happened that it turned out a good thing that it did n't get posted , but that was just a lucky chance . |
| 19 | It so happened that it fell to the lot of Geoffrey Holton and Chris Protheroe to do the donkey work in the Lusaka accident , but it could have been any of the twenty or so investigators in AIB . |
| 20 | It so happened that there was a vacancy in the mission field in Ireland at that time . |
| 21 | But the agency does have the job of approving materials and devices ( as well as drugs ) intended for the treatment of disease , and way back in the late 1960s it rightly concluded that none of the artificial hearts available was fit for the task for which it had been designed . |
| 22 | Sometimes I do n't seem real to myself , it suddenly seems that it is n't my reflection only a foot or two away . |
| 23 | The Labour party should be pleased about that , but , because those industries are its old power base , it naturally regrets that it no longer has trade union members coming from that source . |
| 24 | [ This is not to say that the adjective must be ascriptive ; nor is it to require that the adjective should be restrictive — see Chapter 7 ; it merely states that there is no interaction between the properties as such . ] |
| 25 | It merely means that he has selected the best presentation of the subject for your assistance . |
| 26 | It merely indicates that it is the duty of ‘ every person responsible for public records … to make arrangements for the selection of those records which ought to be permanently preserved and for their safe-keeping ’ . |
| 27 | Accordingly he submitted that if the jury accepted that the first appellant had murdered the deceased , then it necessarily followed that they should have acquitted the second appellant . |
| 28 | If " Jones is a man " is true , then , of course , it necessarily follows that something falls under the concept man , i.e. " For some x , x is a man " is true also . |
| 29 | If the Union must have a security structure of its own , it necessarily follows that it has needs which are not covered by Nato and interests which go beyond the mutual defence guaranteed by the North Atlantic Treaty . |
| 30 | And if so , then , given that such statements are sometimes true , it necessarily follows that there is more than one entity in the world . |