Example sentences of "[pron] so happen " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It so happens that this rate is exactly the output of the building industry , averaged over the previous three years . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , as it so happens , various people have wished me congratulations ; very kind ; though did n't recognise most of them , I must say . ’ |
| 4 | A girl sits down with a man and he says , ‘ What you need is a good romance and it so happens I 'm very romantic ’ — that 's marketing . |
| 5 | As it so happens , Strand-on-the-Green was one of the very many places that felt the effects of the German bombing — in November 1940 , a German landmine landed in the area , destroying cottages on the north side of Thames Road . |
| 6 | Also , as it so happens , in August 1941 Winston Churchill had a meeting with President Roosevelt on board a British battleship , off the coast of Newfoundland , and that was followed by a further meeting at Christmas in Washington , when they agreed to send aid to Russia in the form of armaments , etc. , also they drew up the Atlantic Charter under which it was proclaimed that all peoples , in all parts of the world , would have the right to choose their own form of government . |
| 7 | By that time , as it so happens , it was apparent to many , and certainly Monty , that another war was becoming inevitable , so he applied all his energies into his career as an Army Officer . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ It so happens with the weather changing I bought a new windcheater and also a beret this morning . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As it so happens , I am actually innocent of the murders detailed in the extradition request before you . |
| 15 | It so happens that Couvelaire spends one or two weekends a month in his old family home in Biarritz . |
| 16 | It so happens that another growing tendency in contemporary thinking has been undermining the whole approach which leads to it . |
| 17 | ( If it so happens that yellow wallpaper does take away your appetite , then for you it is relevant . ) |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , it so happens I 'm going to town in the morning , ’ he said . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It so happens that amongst the Nuristan Kaffirs in a remote mountain valley of Afghanistan , ‘ horns ’ have this aggressive manly sexual connotation . |
| 22 | 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 : |
| 23 | It so happens that in this example , ( 1 ) and ( 3 ) are false . |
| 24 | ‘ It so happens that SUPPLYKITS also needs more cash . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Well it so happens I was not born in Nottingham , though my early memories are of Nottingham , right even from infant school , which er started at five years of age till about seven . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But it so happens , you might say well all these years retired I ca n't be much good at the job , you 'll be interested to know that I give talks to groups which include retiring tax inspectors . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | As it so happens , Columbus ' personal reactions can be reconstructed in some detail from documentary evidence . |