Example sentences of "it so [verb] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reader should not reject them outright if it so happens that they do not correspond to his own personal impressions . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It so happens that I have an appointment with the PM this evening . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Now it so happens that I am in some small way , relatively well qualified to stand here in Lynda 's place . |
| 8 | ‘ Look , Mr Burns , it so happens that I was blessed with a pretty good voice . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | General Francis said it so happened that he owned the fishing rights on a fairly respectable stretch of water . |
| 13 | It so happened that it turned out a good thing that it did n't get posted , but that was just a lucky chance . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It so happened that there was a vacancy in the mission field in Ireland at that time . |