Example sentences of "and it be [adv] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewis Silkin succeeded as Minister and it is largely through his influence that New Towns in Britain gained their significant role in post-war planning . |
| 2 | And it is there in his conducting of Debussy 's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune , which the English Wagnerian Reginald Goodall once singled out as conducting that managed by some unique alchemy simultaneously to catch a sense of fire and ice , sultry heat and marble calm . |
| 3 | King Edgar was criticised for inviting heathens into the country , some of whom were possibly poets , while Æthelred evidently patronised the skald Gunnlaug , and it was probably during his reign that the surviving manuscript of Beowulf , with its story of pagan Scandinavia , was written . |
| 4 | Speaker of the Long Parliament , and it was probably through his influence that ( after a short stay at St Alban Hall , Oxford ) he became secretary to the parliamentary commissioners in the Isle of Wight in 1648 . |
| 5 | It was the Voice of Reason , and it perched on the opposite shoulder from the Voice of his Conscience , and it was frequently on his side . |
| 6 | One warm-up race at Goodwood ( for which Dancing Brave was such a certainty that the bookmakers returned no starting price ) , and it was off to his appointment with greatness in the Arc . |
| 7 | There was a smile on his face and it was still on his face when he stopped as if seized up and fell headlong in the passageway . |
| 8 | His eyes never left Lamarr Dean , but his right hand closed on the Spencer and it was down at his side as he walked over the few steps to the bar . |
| 9 | For the first 11 of those paddling years he never heard of the BCU and it was only through his activities with the Air Training Corps and their involvement with the Devizes to Westminster Race that he got drawn into the position of race Publicity Officer which he has held since the late 70s . |
| 10 | Her husband Reggie was not a strong believer , and it was only at his persistent insistence that Joyce sought medical advice on the eye cancer which eventually led to her death . |
| 11 | Bickford himself fell seriously ill before his fuse could be manufactured in any quantity , and it was only after his death in 1834 that a factory was established in Tuckingmill which continued to make various types of fuse , seldom departing very far from the original specifications , for almost 130 years . |