Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike his father , a pugnacious Laudian , Swan had Puritan leanings , and these may explain his temporary displacement around the Restoration . |
| 2 | He may prefer his own assessment of the patient 's interests , and ignore that of the parent or guardian . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , Martin Strett , Oldham 's rugby union signing from Orrell , may make his senior debut against Bramley on Sunday . |
| 4 | The baby may make his public debut on Miss Diamond 's BBC1 programme Good Morning With Anne And Nick next week . |
| 5 | A worker may be required to live in tied accommodation as a condition of employment or he may make his own decision to do so . |
| 6 | Graham Taylor may survive his tabloid execution to haunt his tormentors |
| 7 | But there again , not everyone cares to lead from the front , like Thatcher.He may lack his own philosophy , but he is a shrewd party manager . |
| 8 | At this stage an author who is arguing that the study of social policy in Britain has been strong on criticism and value judgement but weak on analysis should make his own position very clear . |
| 9 | If the letter then comes back through the dead letter office , the plaintiff 's solicitor should make his own application to set aside any interlocutory judgment he has signed . |
| 10 | Here the world of the mind that I build will not be same as another man builds ; each one of us must build his own world of I and Thou . |
| 11 | Accordingly , the bidder should treat his own shares ( and those of persons connected with him ) as a separate class and should not cast his votes on the resolution approving the scheme . |
| 12 | The individual Jew must make his own pact with the Almighty , and pray directly to Him , not through an agent . |
| 13 | He should win his fair share of races . |
| 14 | The first , a deep and strong desire , was that he should win his own mandate from the people . |
| 15 | BARNSLEY midfielder John Gregg must count his lucky stars that he can follow in his family 's football tradition . |
| 16 | ‘ The experience was certainly salutary , ’ wrote Niki , adding that what he learned was that he should trust his own judgement , that engineers get carried away and some drivers do n't understand their cars . |
| 17 | His qualities , nevertheless , are those of the successful hunter/warrior : he must demonstrate his ideal manliness through self-assertiveness , forceful oratorical skill , athletic prowess , and ceremonial expertise ( Maybury-Lewis 1971 : 198 ; also see Seeger 1981 : 183 on the Suya leader whose temperamental characteristic is that of ‘ uncontrolled belligerence ’ ) . |
| 18 | Now he is attempting to win a third title in the middleweight division but first he must win his European title fight against the tough Dutchman John Neslo today . |
| 19 | Now he is attempting to win a third title in the middleweight division but first he must win his European title fight against the tough Dutchman John Neslo today . |
| 20 | For Ville de Paris to make the final , Pajot must win his last two races while New Zealand loses hers . |
| 21 | They must go ; and he must do his best to see that all of them — even he himself — put what had happened out of mind , for ever . |
| 22 | Then the judge must do his best for the community as a whole , frankly and honestly , not pretending to " discover " some law beneath the surface of statutes or precedents that only he can see . |
| 23 | ‘ The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the verandah of the missionary compound , Government station , or planter 's bungalow , where , armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda , he has been accustomed to collect statements from informants , write down stories , and fill out sheets of paper with savage texts . |
| 24 | This desire to accommodate the life of the spirit in everyday activities is finely illustrated by the Latin instructions in a fifteenth-century manuscript as to how a devout layman should regulate his daily life , from his rising with all swiftness and signing himself with the cross , to his final return to bed when he must go to sleep in the uncertainty , salutary from a penitential , if not somnific , point of view , as to whether he will survive until the morrow . |
| 25 | Stirling was told that a new operation was being planned and that he must bring his entire force back to base . |
| 26 | The new US approach fell short of outright recognition for Bazin 's government , but involved urging exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to meet with Bazin , whereas the earlier US position had been that Aristide should choose his own Prime Minister prior to his return to the country . |
| 27 | After any other party has been heard the judge should give his formal ruling . |
| 28 | The third , ‘ How I See Philosophy ’ ( 1956 ) , distinguished philosophical arguments from deductive demonstrations of theses and instead illustrated how to treat philosophical problems on the model of psychoanalysis ; the patient must acknowledge his own difficulties and dissolve his problems by coming to view things in new ways . |
| 29 | New books from Reed , and a stageshow on tour throughout 1993 should keep his high-flying profile afloat . |
| 30 | A refinement was therefore suggested , namely that he should keep his first wife and merely add a second . |