Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wainwright 's books must continue to be available to all who are prepared to accept his own work , as he wrote it , and as the product of his own generation ( and preferably bearing the cherished stamp of the Westmorland Gazette ) . |
| 2 | While not present at an event , the writer may have been able to use his own detailed sources which are no longer available — or the writer may have relied on hearsay . |
| 3 | He would be free to pursue his own work , but must make himself available to students of composition . |
| 4 | Would it even matter , if this rabble of which he had himself once been a part , managed to get their vote and fill the House of Commons with men who would pass Factory Acts galore , including that damnable Ten Hours Bill of Richard Oastler 's , so that no man would be able to control his own affairs ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He wanted to be able to draw his own conclusions , without Naseby 's helpful commentary . |
| 7 | The Prime Minister would be able to appoint his own Cabinet . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was rare for the painter to be able to do his own engraving , and conversely few engravers were artists in their own right . |
| 10 | A winner of two handicaps this season , Azhar is as tough as they come and should be able to hold his own in this stronger company . |
| 11 | Now he 'll be able to use his own crop to make paper — which is made at this plant in Scotland . |
| 12 | He will be able to finance his own stockholding of goods . |
| 13 | Would he himself ever know with certainty , be able to postulate his own thoughts as rationally ? |
| 14 | With MDI the skilled craftsman operating this machine would be able to write his own program to control the machine and enter it directly into the machine 's computer . |
| 15 | Be aware , then , that he simply will not be able to proof-read his own work , because he may think , for instance , that latter is the correct way to spell later . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | FATHER 'S LOVE Lucy 's disability helped convince Mr Stringer that he should strive to provide a home for the mentally handi-capped which he would be happy to see his own daughter live in . |
| 18 | MICK QUINN could be ready to stamp his own exit visa at Newcastle after being axed from the squad for tonight 's test at Birmingham . |
| 19 | Or was she relying on the unlikelihood of Tom 's being able to defend his own corner effectively ? |
| 20 | Not as if he were angry with Carrie but as if he were busy thinking his own thoughts … |
| 21 | Heseltine , in contrast , would have been obliged to seek his own mandate as soon as the Gulf war ended . |
| 22 | The tribunals are meant to provide simple informal justice in an atmosphere in which the ordinary man feels he is at home … an atmosphere which does not shut out the ordinary man so that he is prepared to conduct his own case before them with a reasonable prospect of success . |
| 23 | I think it is sensible to separate his many librettos into categories — not for the sake of ultimate classification , but because it helps to understand the nature of the finished works , in their full musical dress . |
| 24 | Peter takes little comfort from the fact that the exploration is now centred in an area north of the Doolough Valley , so that any future mining is likely to leave his own watershed unaffected . |
| 25 | Each child is likely to have his own particular patterns , but it 's not necessary , or desirable , or possible , to analyse each child 's errors as thoroughly as these examples do . |
| 26 | In his weakened state he is unable to control his own metaphors , to keep the various terminologies he deploys distinct . |
| 27 | Breach of the provisions of the Act involves the commission of an offence punishable by fine and may even in certain circumstances disqualify the firm from bringing proceedings to enforce its contractual rights — where by reason of the breach the defendant is unable to pursue his own claims against the firm or has otherwise suffered financial loss and the court does not consider that justice and equity require that the firm 's action should be allowed to proceed . |
| 28 | In the view of his friend , Hoccleve is unwise to trust his own judgement rather than the friend 's , but a programme of translation , with patronage in mind , is drawn up . |
| 29 | But it is this commercial work that he sees as fulfilling a far more important function — it is the means by which he is able to fund his own personal projects . |
| 30 | He is able to re-create his own world wherever he goes . |