Example sentences of "[pers pn] is a [noun] to his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stuart was only 17 years old and it is a tribute to his strength and personality that he was still conscious when the rescue team arrived , one and a half hours after I left him to go for help . |
| 2 | It is a tribute to his determination over his 22 years that he has achieved where so many before him have failed . |
| 3 | Perhaps Andrew 's quirkiness preferred the persistence of the myth rather than the inside story , but with his death the truth must be told , since it is a tribute to his generous nature . |
| 4 | Aquinas is right ; and it is a credit to his genius to have put animals so neatly into a perspective consistent with Wittgenstein 's analysis . |
| 5 | It is a key to his selection process , a key to the training he undertakes , a key to his overall process of management . |
| 6 | Presumably there is justification when a doctor urges his patient to give up a fixed term employment because it is a danger to his health , but what of the tutor who insists that his student give up a vacation job because it will interfere with his studies ? |