Example sentences of "to be [adj] [verb] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted to be able to draw his own conclusions , without Naseby 's helpful commentary . |
| 2 | Mr Vernon Malcolm , managing director of the company which supplies parts for Nissan , said most of his employees were paid at least £3.40 an hour , but he needed to be able to set his own rates of pay rather than having them imposed by government . |
| 3 | Exceedingly self-reliant , each man seemed to be able to do his own thinking and to be purely democratic and independent in his ideas and purposes . |
| 4 | It was rare for the painter to be able to do his own engraving , and conversely few engravers were artists in their own right . |
| 5 | He had enough private means to be able to follow his own highly original path of historical research and reflection , so that his first book , The Age of the Gods ( 1928 ) was the result of fourteen years of research . |