Example sentences of "be his [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She glanced at the other two and , not waiting for a reply , she went on , ‘ He 's so caring , he treats them as if they 're his personal friends … ’ |
| 2 | The ravages committed by man subvert the relations and destroy the balance which nature had established between her organized and her inorganic creations ; and she avenges herself upon the intruder , by letting loose upon her defaced provinces destructive energies hitherto kept in check by organic forces destined to be his best auxiliaries , but which he has unwisely dispersed and driven from the field of action . |
| 3 | If not , they are free to treat him in what they believe to be his best interests . |
| 4 | The doctors are then faced with a situation in which the patient has made no decision and , he by then being unable to decide for himself , they have both the right and the duty to treat him in accordance with what in the exercise of their clinical judgment they consider to be his best interests . |
| 5 | One side of his wardrobe would be his best ties ; then the crocheted ties he wore every day . |
| 6 | When the author of The Three Midshipmen reflected that his three heroes , supposed to be his former schoolfellows at ‘ dear old Eagle House ’ , had in a few years ‘ crossed swords with real red-capped or turbaned Mohammedans , fought with true Greek romantic pirates , hunted down slavers , and explored African rivers with voracious sharks watching their mouths , hungry crocodiles basking in their slimy shallows , and veritable negroes inhabiting their banks ’ , this rhodomontade , appealing to the eager youth of the mid-Victorian period , was entirely justified . |
| 7 | Still with Renault in 1982 he won the opening two rounds in Argentina and Brazil , after the disqualification of Piquet and Rosberg , but , sadly , they turned out to be his only successes . |
| 8 | Irving Moss now had what he believed would be his final instructions . |
| 9 | It is likely that he chose a group of men to be his special disciples — apostles — because at that time a women would not have had the freedom to become travelling evangelists — to go round preaching and teaching . |
| 10 | Then the reports began to flood in … a fair-haired , blue-eyed toddler of about the right age , always in the company of a Greek couple much too old to be his natural parents . |
| 11 | Kepler 's theory I take to be his three laws of planetary motion . |
| 12 | The primary determinant of service was still land , in the sense that a lord normally drew the core of his following from the area where his estates lay , although the men who looked to him for lordship would not necessarily be his own tenants . |
| 13 | The primary determinant of service was still land , in the sense that a lord normally drew the core of his following from the area where his estates lay , although the men who looked to him for lordship would not necessarily be his own tenants . |
| 14 | Some of the objectives should be his own proposals . |
| 15 | The book consisted of eighteen chapters ; each defended his actions in what purported to be his own words . |
| 16 | He found the ordinations , three times a year , to be his happiest moments . |
| 17 | He faced growing opposition , even among those who had been his closest supporters , particularly when he failed to honour an undertaking made in 1979 to his party supporters that he would relinquish office in 1990 after the first 10 years of independence . |
| 18 | Whatever may have been his public faults … he had many private virtues . ’ |
| 19 | Petrol , food and a few tools had been his biggest expenses so far , and if the budget started to tighten he 'd have to stop buying food and see what he could find in the woodland around him . |
| 20 | Most remarkable , however , are his two houses in the Gothic style . |
| 21 | His best-remembered books are his Scots novels : — The Ayrshire Legatees — the story of an Ayrshire Minister and his family in London ; The Annals of the Parish and The Provost — novels depicting social life in 18th century Ayrshire ; The Entail ; Sir Andrew Wylie ; and Lawrie Todd . |
| 22 | ‘ Because of course the chef is well paid — as are his immediate underlings . |
| 23 | These users are his immediate descendants and he is their parent . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , on the only example on pottery , from the Nene Valley , the monster appears on the broken edge of the sherd ( fig. 14.40 ) and all that is visible are his sprouting whiskers and one foot . |
| 25 | ‘ The men are his ex-Security Policemen . |
| 26 | ‘ Who are his other friends ? ’ |
| 27 | You see I am very careful in settling the Chronology of his Poems ; such a Genius is a Curiosity ; and one wou 'd willingly know which are his first Productions . |
| 28 | Of his eight symphonies written over this period , two ( No 25 in G minor , K.183 , and No 29 in A major , K.201 ) are works of outstanding maturity , and are his earliest symphonies to take their place in the standard modern repertory . |
| 29 | Although I welcome the way in which my right hon. Friend has responded to pressure from those of us who are concerned about the future of the volunteers in the Territorial army and elsewhere , and I especially welcome his statement about the future of the Army Cadet Force and the support it receives from the reserves , what are his particular plans for the three reserve battalions of the Royal Anglians ? |
| 30 | Belgian Bertrand Gachot , Emmerson Fittipaldi 's nephew , Christian Fittipaldi from Brazil , and another Brazilian , Rubens Barrichello , who joins Eddie Jordan 's Formula One team next season , are his latest successes . |