Example sentences of "it be [adj] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | And would n't it be neat for his IRA friends to bait the trap for Fraser 's wife with her own brother . |
| 2 | Dr Neil tried to calm himself by a grave examination of the doll , as though it were one of his patients , holding the tiny wrist to take the pulse , only to see the laughter on her face , and for that to provoke him to further inward excesses . |
| 3 | Yeah , she er we went to the river shore , you know the bridge near o on our part of the road and he were behind the trees and er I was wo wo , it were one of his sons who were with us , you know , Tommy and he was shouting |
| 4 | Can I thank you for those generous comments that you say towards er , , I think they 're totally true , he 's worked extremely hard in making sure this council has a budget which balanced , and it 's due to his expertise and bullying tactics that we 've succeeded , and he should be fully congratulated for that , and I think it 's the determination of those who were elected in May as well , to make sure that we protected services and jobs , and , and make sure that we actually carried out the mandate which the electors elected us to do that we have such ach achieved what we have achieved today . |
| 5 | It 's indicative of his desperation that he 's prepared to sell Martin Keown , an England-class centre half , to raise some cash … but even that would be nowhere near enough to start re-creating the mid-1980s dream team . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh well ’ , we smile , ‘ it 's one of his funny days . ’ |
| 7 | but it 's one of his great problems |
| 8 | But he was a genius and it 's one of his best plays and most pertinent today . |
| 9 | and the inevitable happened it it got hit and the next time we saw it it was it was galloping across the field with it 's one of his front paws |
| 10 | Who knows perhaps it 's one of his days out |
| 11 | See it 's one of his hobbies and he goes to , he goes to er Bradshaws and he |
| 12 | Look at him it 's all on his gob ! |
| 13 | It 's disgusting at his age , I agree , but old people do it and no young people say they ca n't . |
| 14 | Yeah , yeah it 's not compatible or summat er it 's compatible with his telly when he has n't got the Sky on and if he 's got the Sky on he 's got to mess about I sat watching him for days messing with it and then I says to him have you got it on your V U channel ? |
| 15 | So it 's bad with his nerves and everything . |
| 16 | And this is n't just true of course , of our physical body , it 's true of his body , the church . |
| 17 | It 's full of his work and that of his friends . |
| 18 | It 's another of his ideas which he keeps trying to interest people in ; he has a manuscript on the subject ( ‘ The State of the Fart ’ ) which he also sends away to London to publishers now and again and which they of course send back by return . |
| 19 | It is essential for his reputation that he again walk as Manager into the Branch which he managed as if he had never been dismissed . |
| 20 | Even though in the passage above Gummer undermines his own argument ( through his use of the phrase ‘ at least among the articulate ’ , he implies that this consensus is confined to a certain section of society ) it is crucial to his thesis that the changes to be identified under the rubric of permissiveness should be viewed against the backcloth of an alleged Victorian moral consensus . |
| 21 | Before this , however , a major work of Freud 's must be examined , for it is central to his social philosophy and psychoanalytic sociology . |
| 22 | It is central to his thinking that for most communities , each code has its own symbolic value in terms of " we " and " they " . |
| 23 | By section 50C , a lawful user is permitted to copy or adapt a computer program providing that it is necessary for his lawful use and not prohibited by the agreement regulating the use ( for example , a licence agreement ) . |
| 24 | It is necessary in his judgment to relate the facts only in the barest outline . |
| 25 | It is close to his painted portrait of ‘ Francesco Giamberti ’ now in the Rijksmuseum . |
| 26 | possess any secret official code word , or password , or sketch , plan , model , article , note , document or information which relates to or is used in a prohibited place or anything in such a place , or which has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act , or which has been entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under Her Majesty or which he has obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who is or has been employed under a person who holds or has held such an office or contract — [ and who ] ( a ) communicates the code word , pass word , sketch , plan , model , article , note , document , or information to any person other than a person to whom he is authorised to communicate it , or a person to whom it is in the interest of the State his duty to communicate it , or ( aa ) uses the information in his possession for the benefit of any foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State , or ( b ) retains the sketch , plan , model , article , note , or document in his possession or control when he has no right to retain it or when it is contrary to his duty to retain it , or fails to comply with all directions issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or disposal thereof , or … |
| 27 | Whichever approach is adopted ( that of the SDPP or of the School Management Task Force ) the head has to decide whether it is practicable in his or her school to assume that the more that teachers are asked to do in the way of auditing , laying plans , implementing them and reviewing them , the more they will understand about the effectiveness of pupils ' learning . |
| 28 | The anxiety with which modern woman — the ‘ new woman ’ — was viewed in the last decade of the 19th century and the early years of the 20th century is central to an analysis of these images presented by the New Sculpture exhibition ; this is not so much the over-emphasis upon the image of the ‘ femme fatale ’ which Glaves-Smith decries in the catalogue , but those ‘ clear gender constructions ’ which he maintains are ‘ far more subtle ’ ( although it is unclear from his text just what these constructions might be ) . |
| 29 | Granted his contention that in the long-term or ideal equilibrium , wealth and power are inevitably associated with one another , it is coherent with his general model that he reduces class analysis to elite analysis , but again this is a problem which recurs in later elitists in more potent form . |
| 30 | What is missing from Wolff 's analysis , though it is present in his terminology , is the recognition of the public face , the mutuality of responsibility . |