Example sentences of "it [be] a [noun] of his " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is natural that the surrealist should deal in super-abundance , quite apart from it being a reflection of his youth . |
| 2 | It 's a test of his imaginative sympathy . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is a mark of his abrupt nature . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ It is a part of his malady . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I am told it is a result of his ‘ re-structuring ’ at the clinic . |
| 15 | As it is a list of his own making , it is not much of an excuse . |
| 16 | The man was a raving sadist , she thought , and then realised it was a requirement of his job . |
| 17 | It was a ghostly hand holding a lighted candle , and the luckless man who beheld it knew that it was a portent of his death . |
| 18 | Well , it was a celebration of his life , was n't it ? |
| 19 | He had heard so much about it from the Queen Mother — who as a child had been there every year — and from so many other people that he had felt it was a part of his education that was sorely lacking . |
| 20 | It was a part of his creed never to give way to these emotions . |
| 21 | His embarrassment flattered her , because it was a sign of his bewildered love , but it irritated her even more , because it testified to his immaturity ; going with a boy the same age seemed like lowering oneself : she was only interested in older boys . |
| 22 | It was a sign of his distress that he did n't care what it cost , had n't even looked to see the list of seat prices posted up by the side of the window . |
| 23 | It was a measure of his upset that Karel did n't even notice he was repeating himself . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It was a fragment of his own mind , designed to journey to the edgewoods , to find his rescuer . |
| 26 | EG Vinnie throwing a scotch egg at him and Bobby Davison getting pissed and falling asleep in the restaureant only to wake up with flu and miss loads of games ( the papers said it was a recurrance of his knee injury ) ! |
| 27 | He did n't particularly like brandy , but it was a put of his image . |
| 28 | It was a phrase of his she 'd picked up . |
| 29 | The editorial policy that he pursued in Monde was ultimately no doubt as much a product of his natural inclination for popular front co-operative politics , as it was a consequence of his scepticism regarding the possibilities for the development of proletarian literature in interwar capitalist France dominated by a hegemonic bourgeois cultural tradition . |
| 30 | It was a condition of his bail that he should not approach Bridget Coffey , the complainant . |