Example sentences of "it [be] a [noun] to his " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could say it 's a return to his earlier mode , but ramified by increased stamina . |
| 2 | The man who wrote the music and compiled the volume of verse says it 's a testament to his love affair with the area |
| 3 | Stuart was only 17 years old and it is a tribute to his strength and personality that he was still conscious when the rescue team arrived , one and a half hours after I left him to go for help . |
| 4 | It is a tribute to his determination over his 22 years that he has achieved where so many before him have failed . |
| 5 | Perhaps Andrew 's quirkiness preferred the persistence of the myth rather than the inside story , but with his death the truth must be told , since it is a tribute to his generous nature . |
| 6 | Aquinas is right ; and it is a credit to his genius to have put animals so neatly into a perspective consistent with Wittgenstein 's analysis . |
| 7 | It is a key to his selection process , a key to the training he undertakes , a key to his overall process of management . |
| 8 | Presumably there is justification when a doctor urges his patient to give up a fixed term employment because it is a danger to his health , but what of the tutor who insists that his student give up a vacation job because it will interfere with his studies ? |
| 9 | Ideologically , it was a return to his roots — to his obsession with the innate hostility of what he called " les féodalités " ( political parties , trade unions , special interest groups ) towards the state . |
| 10 | But had he not fallen in with it too readily and too rapidly simply because it was a testimony to his secure tenure , a declaration before the world that he was a king indeed , and his progeny fit mates for the royalty of Europe ? |