Example sentences of "so 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, administered compounds which had been prepared in the laboratories of J. R. Geigy S. A. to patients who were withdrawn , inactive , and depressed .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 . |