Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] it [be] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Greek tragedy , in most of Jane Austen 's novels , a leading figure in the drama realises with a sense of shock that the world is other than once imagined , and accepts that it is so . |
| 2 | When one thinks that it is so easy to simply discard direct mail , it is more difficult to ignore a telephone call , especially if the message is ‘ personalised ’ . |
| 3 | When one thinks , however , that coming up the Sacred Way one 's first sight of the building would be the corner , the long Gigantomachy stretching in front of one , the combat of the east abutting on it and the seated gods closing the composition at the end , one understands that it is so designed to suit its position ; as the formal archaic structure of the west frieze suits the highly decorated frontally approached entrance-façade . |
| 4 | IBM Corp reckons that it is so vital to its future to gain possession of it that it is betting the company on making a success of OS/2 2.0 . |
| 5 | I mean we 've tried to write down everything she does but it 's so varied I mean , telephone calls and she has to do telephone calls . |
| 6 | Perhaps it oversimplifies the situation to treat these as two quite different uses of such expressions as ‘ I believe that seems , rather , that it is built into the meaning of ‘ I believe that … ’ that it hovers between expressing tentative belief that what is specified by the following wording is so , and expressing belief or awareness that the speaker believes that it is so . |