Example sentences of "and it is [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it is for his gaffes as much as his gifts that old Colemanballs — the column Private Eye named after them — will be remembered . |
| 2 | It is this idea of social solidarity that provided Leon Duguit with the basis of his theory of law and it is to his work that we now turn . |
| 3 | The most observant reporter of saying things by means of deeds was the late Erving Goffmann , and it is to his work that I would like to dedicate the rest of this lecture . |
| 4 | I wrote to the Secretary of State for the Environment and was told that it was really a matter for the chief environmental officer of the local authority , but when I took the matter up with the local environmental officer , his response — and it is to his credit that he responded — was , ’ Well , it may be bad , but it is not really so bad that I must take any action . ’ |
| 5 | Ken Viljoen , then 21 , made the Springboks ' only hundred in the Tests , and it is from his diary that the authors have recreated the events of 1931–32 , on and off the field . |