Example sentences of "it be that [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it is that for Douglas MacBain it is a clearly defined aim to consider setting targets for numbers of churches to be planted in the coming decade and to work to facilitate this . |
| 2 | Thus it was that on Friday , 17 March the university press officer interviewed Fleischmann and Pons , who were even then in the process of revising their preliminary note , and the office had a press release ready by the Monday morning . |
| 3 | Thus it was that on Monday 6 March the summit took place at Brigham Young University involving administrators and scientists from the two universities . |
| 4 | Jimmy said he really enjoyed playing , but his slight worry about it was that at £13.99 it might prove expensive for the unemployed . |
| 5 | So it was that as March 1981 drew to a close , Branson telephoned Rodney Birbeck , the editor of Music Week — the trade ‘ Bible ’ of the British record industry — and invited him to lunch . |
| 6 | Thus it was that in March 1983 , IBM launched the IBM XT , a denomination that still stands today . |
| 7 | So it was that in October 1976 , the Pistols signed to EMI Records . |
| 8 | So it was that in death Simon Cormack returned to Oxford , to the Radcliffe Infirmary , whose facilities are a match even for Guy 's Hospital , London . |
| 9 | So it was that by Thursday morning Charlotte could detect within herself an ebbing of urgency , a slide towards fatalism , a creeping acceptance that Samantha 's absence might be as permanent as Maurice 's . |