Example sentences of "so it [be] [conj] [prep] " 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 | So it was that during a week long break from filming Neighbours in October 1987 Kylie boarded an airliner and left the sweltering sunshine of Melbourne for the cold and rain of an English autumn . |
| 3 | So it was that at 18 , from 1778–9 , William went to ‘ Lancashire-north-of-the-Sands ’ , and he loved it . |
| 4 | So it was that at 9 o'clock sharp the following morning , Aj , our warden in charge , arrived to show us what needed to be done . |
| 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 | And so it was that on the first Monday after New Year , about midnight , we found ourselves on an icy road in County Cavan heading for the checkpoint , having just driven up from Dun Laoghaire , where we had disembarked from the Holyhead ferry . |
| 7 | So it was that on a golden autumn evening , towards mid-September of 1937 , I came to write my -30- to a career of journalism cum radio , and sat watching the flatness of the prairies give way to rising foothills as the twin-engined CPR ‘ Dominion ’ crawled westward up the slopes of the mountain . |
| 8 | And so it was that on a beautiful morning in May , two to three years after her return from Trantridge , Tess Durbeyfield left home for the second time . |
| 9 | A picture as they say is worth a thousand words and so it was that on the afternoon unemployment broke through the three million barrier I chanced a glimpse of the private feelings of John Major . |
| 10 | And so it was that into the middle of this semi-digital world was launched the page printer . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So it was that by the time Hugh and Twoflower entered the courtyard of the Broken Drum the leaders of a number of them were aware that someone had arrived in the city who appeared to have much treasure . |
| 13 | So it was that in indicating my reasons for preferring the West Country for my motoring , instead of leaving it at mentioning several of the alluring details as conveyed by Mrs Symons 's volume , I made the error of declaring that a former housekeeper of Darlington Hall was resident in that region . |
| 14 | So it was that in our context ‘ the Holy Spirit said , ‘ set apart for me ’ some sixteen dear brothers and sisters ‘ for the work to which I have called them . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | So it was that in 1972 the knowledge that consistency paid off , that concentration was necessary , that racing went to the prudent as well as to the bold began to pay off for Emerson . |
| 17 | So it was that in the Autumn of 1983 , just after we bought this house we decided to plant a small spinney to hide a development of new houses on our north border . |
| 18 | So it was that in October 1976 , the Pistols signed to EMI Records . |
| 19 | So it was that in 1932 , James took the journey from the colony to the metropolis with his sights set on becoming a novelist . |