Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would be free to pursue his own work , but must make himself available to students of composition . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He wanted to be able to draw his own conclusions , without Naseby 's helpful commentary . |
| 5 | The Prime Minister would be able to appoint his own Cabinet . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was rare for the painter to be able to do his own engraving , and conversely few engravers were artists in their own right . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Now he 'll be able to use his own crop to make paper — which is made at this plant in Scotland . |
| 10 | He will be able to finance his own stockholding of goods . |
| 11 | Would he himself ever know with certainty , be able to postulate his own thoughts as rationally ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |