Example sentences of "so it is that " in BNC.

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1 So it is that we must also support voluntary action and volunteering as essential in a healthy democracy in a civilised society .
2 So it is that tomorrow , ITV will screen a profile of the man who spent the first eight years of his life in Abyssinia ( now Ethiopia ) and graduated to serious eccentricity via an English prep school ( where he was beaten ) , Eton ( where he learned to box ) and finally Oxford ( where he was a boxing blue and acquired the dramatically-bent nose which for six decades has lent drama to what would in any case have been a distinguished face ) .
3 So it is that the crossing is made without further ado , ‘ opposite Jericho ’ ( 3.16 ) .
4 Sometimes the newcomers have settled in without doing the original inhabitants any great harm — and so it is that the rabbit and the fallow deer have become accepted additions to Britain 's fauna .
5 So it is that my magazine is being put into a state of hibernation .
6 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 .
7 So it is that the new churches are bound to be and look different to the old .
8 So it is that we can apply to research of different disciplinary provenance general criteria of appraisal approved by the wider culture of intellectual enquiry .
9 So it is that when Mr Major explains that he has , by devaluing the pound , given British industry an exceptional chance to improve its exports , he insists that ‘ this did not come about as a deliberate act of policy ’ .
10 And so it is that propliners operators have an essential specialist role to play in modern commercial aviation .
11 So it is that the prospects for four political-reform bills are suddenly looking good .
12 So it is that , despite much talk of changing the electoral system and the laws on financing political parties , Japan has so far seen no Italianate reaction to corruption scandals .
13 So it is that even events from the distant past " were written down for our instruction " in order that in the present and for the future " by encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope " .
14 So it is that the fetish of masculinity is fashioned in men-only milieus — we look to footballers , boxers , soldiers and miners to find our real men .
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