Example sentences of "[pers pn] is a [noun] of [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Monsieur O'Hara , 'e is a man of his word . |
| 2 | She is a victim of her own propaganda . |
| 3 | Now , what I am about to teach you is an extension of your eidetic capability which you will find of great use in your intended career . |
| 4 | It is a measure of her individuality that Greenberg , long one of her husband 's critics , is such a big fan of hers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ It is a culture of our times — and I do n't feel happy ignoring it . ’ |
| 11 | Thus it is wretched to know that one is wretched , but it is a sign of our true greatness to know that we are wretched . |
| 12 | It is a sign of our growth as a movement that one magazine is no longer enough . |
| 13 | It is a question of your firm 's policy . |
| 14 | In Zeus 's other great sanctuary , at Dodona in the north , he seems likewise to have been without a temple until the fifth century ; perhaps it is a function of his ancient role as sky-god . |
| 15 | It is a mark of his abrupt nature . |
| 16 | And in March 1958 he travelled with his wife to Rome where he was to receive an honorary degree : it is a mark of his extraordinary fame that students lined the route to the university and shouted " Viva Eliot ! " as they drove by . |
| 17 | It is a work of his full maturity , enormously demanding technically and closely argued , combining orthodox sonata form , a sophisticated late-romantic idiom and elements derived from Romanian folk-music . |
| 18 | They are born with the ability : instinctively and automatically it is a part of their subtle mind structure . |
| 19 | It is a part of our history , that , and a part which we revere greatly . |
| 20 | It is a part of his search for perfection , according to Mr Ferguson , who is delighted at the way Schmeichel has adapted to life in England . |
| 21 | ‘ It is a part of his malady . |
| 22 | You might say that if this is a problem it is a problem of their own making , a problem that they could avoid simply by changing their habits and hunting by day . |
| 23 | Swannson already has a depot in Swindon but it is a condition of his O licence for that operating centre that maintenance can only be carried out in a restricted manner . |
| 24 | It is a reality of our professional lives . ’ |
| 25 | It is a fact of our lives that change is constant and that change is often feared . |
| 26 | It is not so much a failure of one or other particular party , it is a failure of our culture to recognize the significance and importance of science and to elevate it within the nation more continuously and more substantially than governments of either party have chosen to do during the past 25 years . |
| 27 | But the cult of ugliness can become just as fake as the cult of prettiness if it is a denial of its opposite . |
| 28 | It is a matter of their input systems being tuned to the contours of this physical and this social reality . |
| 29 | Such individuals , because of their active interests and state of mind , do tend to live longer than those who are not so active and aware , but whether this can be ascribed to homoeopathic treatment or whether it is a spin-off of their state of mind is a moot point . |
| 30 | I am told it is a result of his ‘ re-structuring ’ at the clinic . |