Example sentences of "it [be] that [art] [num] " in BNC.

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1 IF New Scientist has a wish for 1983 that is in theory achievable it is that the two cultures C. P. Snow described a generation ago should again become one .
2 So it was that the eight of us ended up , kit gleaming in the spring sunshine , awaiting the arrival of the man who would diagnose our ills , administer a local anaesthetic and set us on the road to perfect health .
3 So it was that the two embarked upon a strange relationship .
4 As their Lordships understand their reasoning , it was that the two sales were not legally interdependent and that there was no evidence to support the judge 's finding that the Perots had a special interest in buying the two adjoining properties .
5 We 'd arrived too late to enjoy whatever it was that the Sixties had ; and we were left the warm dregs to mull over .
6 I think what happens all the time , I understand why , if you put true you me , you you put it was that the one thing that sales people always desperately want is something new .
7 Thus it was that the 30 mph ( 50 km/h ) speed limit in built up areas led to a 50 per cent reduction in pedestrian deaths in London by 1935 .
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