Example sentences of "it so [verb] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It so happens that in this example , ( 1 ) and ( 3 ) are false . |
| 3 | It so happens that amongst the Nuristan Kaffirs in a remote mountain valley of Afghanistan , ‘ horns ’ have this aggressive manly sexual connotation . |
| 4 | It so happened that at that time , apparently unknown to the mother , the father had formed an association with another woman , and , as a result , had become the father of that other woman 's child . |
| 5 | It so happened that on this same 7th of September the inner circle of the royal council was meeting in a small room in Westminster to hear the report of the treasurer , the king 's old and loyal servant Henry Bowet , now bishop of Bath and Wells . |
| 6 | It so happened that on one of these Sundays my CO strolled by at the same time , and the AOC asked him why he had not seen Mahaddie for a pilot 's course . |
| 7 | Schroeder however does appear to equate unreasonableness with oppression but it is suggested that it was not laying down any principle to that effect : it so happened that on the facts in that case unreasonableness and oppression both existed . |
| 8 | This was a wire type recorder , and it so happened that during the very substantial impact a piece of structure cut across the take-up spool presenting the investigators with something like 11 000 lengths of wire about ten inches long on which the events were recorded . |
| 9 | It so happened that about this period the trend was towards vestments on more simple lines . |
| 10 | It so happened that in 1885 a Royal Commission had been set up " to investigate and report upon , the condition of the blind in the United Kingdom , the various systems of education of the blind … the employments open to and suitable for the blind and the means by which education may be extended so as to increase the number of blind persons qualified for such employments . " |