Example sentences of "it be [art] [noun] [prep] 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 | and I think it 's a friend of his . |
| 4 | You could say it 's a return to his earlier mode , but ramified by increased stamina . |
| 5 | The story is of a civil rights leader who was born 25 years ago and it 's a day in his life . |
| 6 | The man who wrote the music and compiled the volume of verse says it 's a testament to his love affair with the area |
| 7 | It 's no criticism of his book to say that his view from within remains , as mine did from without , unmistakably English . |
| 8 | As for the great Largo e mesto itself , here it 's the intensity of his phrasing that gives so sharp an edge to the sorrow . |
| 9 | He , He went into hospital and they said erm that it 's the muscles of his heart that were affected they could n't do anything more for him ! |
| 10 | It 's the race of his life and he should get the result of his life . ’ |
| 11 | Tonight it 's the story of his uncle and as he stands around in the hall , he talks about his Uncle Rocco who was stationed in Ipswich . |
| 12 | It 's the secret of his success . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's the feathers off his hat , ’ I said . |
| 14 | It 's the culmination of his development in the theatre since the mid-Sixties brought his unforgettable Lear with Paul Scofield ; his Theatre of Cruelty season ; and the sledgehammer , operatic impact of his Marat/Sade . |
| 15 | Allan says it 's the pressure of his work but the truth is he does n't find her appealing any more . |
| 16 | It 's the basis of his feelings of nationalism . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It is a tribute to his determination over his 22 years that he has achieved where so many before him have failed . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It is a mark of his abrupt nature . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ It is a part of his malady . |
| 30 | It is a stain on his inner ideal of himself , his honour ; and the conception of personal honour is the centre of Conrad 's moral system . |