Example sentences of "it [be] his [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But his mother says that without the compensation her son had hoped for , it 's his long term future she 's worried about .
2 It 's his big TV break and comes five years after he left school with just one O-level .
3 It is his fifth comet discovery .
4 It is his first gallery exhibition in this country for more than five years and follows the exhilarating survey which took place at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1989 .
5 At the start a group of actors and friends are preparing a surprise party for the director , Michael Manx ( Stephen Moore ) , but it is his older brother Alfred , played by Finney , who strides on to the set first .
6 He recounted how it was his standard lunch time practice in the 60 's to rush to places such as Ifton Colliery , St. Martin 's , near Oswestry to photograph their railways and to chat to some of the characters who operated them .
7 It was his first Government office in his 14-year House of Commons career .
8 It was his first London teaching job and he was working in the Humanities department : ‘ It was right in the beginning I suppose and there was about two months before I actually started . ’
9 Throughout shooting , Crawford was on the set all the time , even when not needed , because it was his first film musical and he was eager to learn .
10 It was his first Pipeline Masters .
11 It was his first League goal for the club , and — as so often in his career — his timing was impeccable .
12 It was his fifth Test century of the year , and he passed 1,000 runs for the year in his eighth match .
13 It was his second Cabinet job .
14 It was his favourite eating place in Baghdad .
15 He owned the journal for another twenty years and it was his main periodical warhorse , supported by several others he established : Gardening ( Illustrated ) ( 1879–1919 ) , Farm and Home ( 1882–1920 ) , Cottage Gardening ( 1892–8 ) , and Flora and Sylva ( 1903–5 ) .
16 It was his third mercy mission to Romania and he plans to join another convoy in December .
17 It was his third whip offence of the season .
18 It was his third warrant sale scare in six months .
19 The American looked shattered at the end — it was his third career defeat at the hands of 21-year-old Ivanisevic and easily the most decisive .
20 Oh dear , and he 'd thought it was his own animal magnetism .
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