Example sentences of "[conj] [be] it so " in BNC.

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1 Or is it so high that it is too cool for crops to ripen ?
2 Nor is it so regular that we can trust to it altogether to fix the exact date of any given work .
3 This is not so much because John Hart , the Malvern College schoolmaster , and his nine colleagues would have otherwise found themselves paying a hefty tax bill on the concessionary school places given to their sons eight years ago ; nor is it so much because of the thousands of other employees who would also have faced tax bills for other concessionary benefits .
4 Nor is it so today , but that is often the situation perceived by the outsider .
5 But is it so terrible ? ’
6 But is it so easy when you 're on someone else 's patch ?
7 But is it so easy to conceive of a pain which is not hurting you ?
8 It 's impossible that Evelyn could be … but was it so impossible ?
9 He knew that if he had had the courage he would have vowed then and there never to go back , but such courage was not his yet , but was it so bad for a man who could make no sense of how he had come to be where he was to rest his fate on the unknown course of an eagle 's life ?
10 But was it so ?
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