Example sentences of "[adv] it be that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And so it is that propliners operators have an essential specialist role to play in modern commercial aviation .
2 So it 's that Vibes question again .
3 And so it was that Osman Abdelal took me from the gas station and up to a small Arab village called Mazraa , clustered round the ruins of an old Roman aqueduct .
4 So it was that Huddersfield became the first club to win the Cup with a penalty .
5 And so it was that Ursula met Justin , the writer 's moody adolescent brother , and ran away with him .
6 And so it was that plans went ahead .
7 And so it was that Luch was taken up to the castle for the second time .
8 So it was that Riven found himself attacking a wooden post with a wooden sword that was slippery with mud , and being lectured by the unsmiling Myrcans .
9 So it was that Edward III was able to extend the areas directly involved in war and to benefit from this by using landing points on different parts of the French coast .
10 So it was that Edward Carrington became the driver , and so it was they turned up at Florence Drive to learn that Major Barrie of the Home Guard had gone with a lieutenant and two soldiers of the Eleventh Cameronians to escort the prisoner to Maryhill Barracks , on the other side of the city .
11 So it was that Henry Smith , who during his lifetime had been famous for avoiding any kind of malicious gossip and for his ability to reconcile opposing factions , was , after his death , at the centre of an international controversy .
12 So it was that Ms Wainwright found herself manhandling ( if that 's the word ) the seven-by-four polystyrene boards across the frozen Alaskan wastes , often in the teeth of gale force winds and in temperatures down to -40°C .
13 So it was that R. Kuhn , in Switzerland , administered compounds which had been prepared in the laboratories of J. R. Geigy S. A. to patients who were withdrawn , inactive , and depressed .
14 And so it was that Gladstone Murray , Ernie L. Bushnell and four others , including myself , staggered through the winter blizzard at just after 10 o'clock that evening and through the C.P.R. station to Eastbound Track No1 .
15 And so it was that Eliot was immersed in what he called ironically " show business " , and although he had reached an age where he performed his tasks more slowly , now more than ever his life was being conducted under pressure .
16 So it was that Levi worked his way down the last holes at Glen Abbey .
17 So it was that Uncle Albert closed his eyes , rested his chin on his hand , and began to have a Big Think .
18 And so it was that Mary had managed to borrow one of the most expensive ‘ sparklers ’ the Gorbals had ever seen .
19 Thus it is that fans of that period recall Mike Deakin and his wholehearted displays with pleasure and affection .
20 Thus it was that Britain and Spain produced two distinct political responses to the crisis .
21 Thus it was that Mrs Clamp found herself looking after my father while he insisted on looking after me .
22 Thus it was that Philip VI , who was not without military skill and experience , felt obliged to seek out and , if possible , defeat the English king and his Norman supporters .
23 Thus it was that Jones ' notebooks are signed by Phillips with the statement
24 Thus it was that Prince Richard 's latest appeal went unanswered .
25 Thus it was that Ira Dilworth paid tribute and bade farewell to Emily Carr with the borrowed lines from Thomas Hardy , and I am certain that none would object if I borrow them as my tribute to both .
26 Here it was that Foxwell and Farrer 's ‘ flag of Hope ’ metaphorically waved .
27 At this point we may ask how it is that speakers go about creating linguistically the persona which they animate at any one particular time .
28 Perhaps some modest help can be obtained from reconsidering how it is that practitioners of quantum mechanics actually go about their trade .
29 There are important developments on Pareto 's analysis in that Mosca identifies in a more concrete and specific manner how it is that elites arise , maintain themselves in power and are replaced .
30 This to-one-side posture of novelist and novel explains how it is that Raskolnikov and Marmeladov are pointedly at a loose end while Crime and Punishment is anything but pointedly sociological .
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