Example sentences of "it is a [noun] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is a tribute to his determination over his 22 years that he has achieved where so many before him have failed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is a mark of his abrupt nature . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ It is a part of his malady . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You wanted to wake up with him right there in the room and to turn to him and quote the next line of the film right back at him , to whisper it to him , make me almost believe that we are a pair of young lovers without any shame , and I do n't mean that in some tragedy queen way , but in order to say of Boy that truly I do think that it is a beauty like his that makes it all worth while , and I do feel that if we are fighting for anything , and if I was asked in a questionnaire what it was I was fighting for ( and believe me I do feel like I am fighting , more and more I think that ) , then I would answer , beauty . |
| 18 | It is a key to his selection process , a key to the training he undertakes , a key to his overall process of management . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | I am told it is a result of his ‘ re-structuring ’ at the clinic . |
| 21 | As it is a list of his own making , it is not much of an excuse . |