Example sentences of "it be [adv] his [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yes , but it 's not his day to bring bread |
| 2 | It 's just his way to talk to them , that 's how he , that 's how he boxes . |
| 3 | So when he maintains that because we are , Truth or God is , or that God is the sum total of life , it could be argued that he is not presenting us with some kind of cosmological argument for the existence of God and that it is not his purpose to argue from the world to God . |
| 4 | Although he protests that it is not his job to pass moral judgements on anyone , he does draw the line at advertising some occult products such as polished pebbles , or some cults such as the Moonies . |
| 5 | It is not his duty to die at a general 's whim . ’ |
| 6 | Whereas it is n't his place to apologize is it ? |
| 7 | But if his ‘ true nature ’ is to be romantically on the rise , and to have ‘ ideas ’ , it is also his nature to occupy the middle ground . |
| 8 | Siome news in brief — the fatal accident inquiry into drug deaths in Glasgow has just ended with the sheriff telling the parents of the victim that while he understood their feelings of helplessness and grief , it was n't his function to hold the general inquiry into the misuse of drugs . |
| 9 | It was n't his job to try and get Gesner and Therese to sing together . |
| 10 | Graham Rowell was only concerned with how he was going to treat a condition or an injury ; he said it was n't his job to worry about how it could have been prevented in the first place . ’ |
| 11 | He was glad that it was n't his job to catch the Whistler . |
| 12 | It was n't his place to mind , she 'd felt like telling him . |
| 13 | It was n't his brief to find him . |
| 14 | And though it was not his way to wait passively for things to come to him , in this he found himself helpless , unable to act . |
| 15 | It was not his way to speak sharply — that was his wife 's department — but he could not conceal the fact that he thought Anna was both wrong and behaving badly . |
| 16 | It was not his way to admit that he had made a mistake . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ It was not his idea to pick the seals up . |
| 18 | It was not his responsibility to deal with terrorist opposition . |
| 19 | Mr Wilcock told the bench that Mr Smith was not a cruel man , and that it was not his intention to cause his animals suffering . |
| 20 | But if his defence is that it was not his intention to cause fear of violence or to provoke its use , his conduct might still come within the ambit of the subsection by virtue of its latter part . |
| 21 | Not only is this virtually impossible ( and improbable ) in cases of injury — fatal or otherwise — to employees or the public , but in cases of financial irregularities it is always open for the suspect(s) to plead that it was not his intention to defraud shareholders , indeed even though he engaged in what appears to be financially irregular practices , his intention all along had been to improve shareholders ' financial interests , but unfortunately due to unforeseeable circumstances , matters went sour . |
| 22 | By voicing his pragmatic policy , Longuet is breaking with decades of French industrial policy by saying it was not his role to build strategic industrial sectors for France . |
| 23 | But he asked nothing ; it was not his habit to woo men from their clan allegiance , or try to make dishonest use of a man he wished to employ honestly . |
| 24 | Quite evidently it was not his habit to discuss his business affairs with strangers . |
| 25 | Somehow it was not his business and certainly it was not his business to pander to it . |
| 26 | Instead of sending in his officers to haul out the occupiers , Alderson argued that this was a civil issue , there had been no breach of the peace and it was not his job to suppress dissent . |
| 27 | But a judge in Eberswalde said it was not his job to set an example . |
| 28 | The inquiry would show the American at the listening-post in the basement apartment did not move because it was not his job to move . |
| 29 | Pilger was not at all convinced that the NoS sales target was viable , but it was not his job to worry about that . |
| 30 | It was not his place to serve anyone but the Captain and if he ever found out it would mean punishment . |