Example sentences of "it [be] a measure of [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a measure of their commitment to the cause of good design that their paramount concern is to make a page whose information can be readily absorbed , rather than to devise one for which the reader might need sunglasses . |
| 2 | It is a measure of what , this time , was at stake . |
| 3 | It is a measure of her individuality that Greenberg , long one of her husband 's critics , is such a big fan of hers . |
| 4 | In fact , it is a measure of his poverty both that he is unaware of it and that he can define himself only in negative terms . |
| 5 | It is a measure of his success in launching this new functional approach that we now take it so much for granted that we forget , and even find difficulty in appreciating , the novelty which it represented at the time . |
| 6 | The Department owes a great deal to Noel Thomas and it is a measure of his success as Chairman that when at the end of the 1989 academic year he handed over the hot seat to Angus Easson , the latter 's first task was one of consolidation . |
| 7 | He also received an honorary degree at Harvard University — it is a measure of his popularity , perhaps , that when he was at a reception there with E. M. Forster the students and teachers ignored the novelist and crowded around the poet . |
| 8 | It is a measure of our changing standards that 3.5 metre boats such as the Dancer , Mountain Bat and Invader are regarded as large boats today . |
| 9 | Pushing her back into her chair , he gave her back her glass and it was a measure of her distress that she actually reached out and took it . |
| 10 | No actual creature had all the limbs and segments of the ideal one ; and their divergence from it was a measure of their height in the scale — crabs come above lobsters . |
| 11 | It was a measure of his upset that Karel did n't even notice he was repeating himself . |
| 12 | He was a happy and contented member of a new kind of club , and since the last thing Ken wanted to do was join a club , it was a measure of his new triumph that he became part of this one . |
| 13 | Meester Northcliffe , ’ he trilled — and it was a measure of my disorientation that I took this further name-change in my faltering stride . |
| 14 | It was a measure of my despair that I dared to be so disdainful . |
| 15 | ‘ If you had n't known before , it must surely have occurred to you then , that it was a measure of my besottedness that I let you get away with it . ’ |