Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] be [verb] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | In part , that may be explained by his own view of women formed from those days in Neptune : they should be independent , take their strengths from their inner self and not rely on men , except for moral support . |
| 2 | This may be seen in his pollution of air , soil and ocean and in his scant disregard for the balance of nature or the needs of future generations and his tendency , without restraint , to use animal creation for his own ends . |
| 3 | The sociological strain is weak in Malinowski 's writing , and this may be connected with his unique absorption in a single exotic culture . |
| 4 | One patient might attend the ward as a day-patient , another may be seen with his partner for marital therapy , another may continue in individual problem-orientated therapy , and so on . |
| 5 | What is clear , though , is that the bereaved have a special place in God 's kingdom and this should be reflected in his church so that bereaved people can feel that they have at least one known place where they can feel at home . |
| 6 | The issue was whether he was the person he claimed to be , and the Court of Appeal held that this must be tested by his appearance in court where cross-examination could be fully informed by the recollections of several people in England who knew the missing heir before his emigration . |
| 7 | Before the Brownings left Florence she had enquired of Mr Browning how things stood and had been told very ill , but that this must be kept from his wife until she was in the warm south and better able to stand the inevitable end of it all . |
| 8 | This must be found in his powers to prevent a breach of the peace , or in his powers to prevent an obstruction to the highway . |
| 9 | If a patient has a psychiatric disorder this must be included in his list of problems , although sometimes the secondary effects of the illness are more important problems than the illness itself . |
| 10 | The dismissal of the Foreign Minister Argaña in July for publicly stating that the ruling Colorado Party would never give up power [ see p. 37651 ] did not dispel fears that the government 's undertaking to hold free elections in 1993 would be broken by his " stronista " ( Stroessnorist ) wing of the Colorado Party . |
| 11 | Now usually someone will be reading the Sunday papers , another will be bowling at his five-year-old son . |
| 12 | Wölflinn 's writings are strong on observation ; this can be understood from his choice of terms to describe tendencies in form ; linear as against painterly , plane surface as against recessional depth , closed against open form , composite clarity against fused clarity , or absolute clarity against relative clarity . |
| 13 | An example of this can be seen in his youthful discovery of the biblical poems of the Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf . |
| 14 | Whether these should be equated with his ‘ heirs ’ , who held land worth £4. 6s. 8d. in Elesborough , his widow , who lived at Whaddon and was a prominent landowner , or someone quite different , is not clear . |
| 15 | What else might this twenty thousand pound earner have , that would be included in his gross package . |
| 16 | The first can be encapsulated in his term expanded negative reproduction . |
| 17 | ‘ Things like that will be going through his mind . |
| 18 | The same could be said for his successor . |
| 19 | Man is a god in ruins , thought Emerson , and perhaps at the end of the twentieth century much the same could be said of his world , a still beautiful but ravaged paradise which , regardless of the tenets of sustainable development will not be passed on to the next century in better or even the same condition , in fact , almost certainly in worse condition as a result of meeting the needs of another billion or so people . |
| 20 | The same could be said of his father Denethor , to whom Gandalf again makes the point that even unhandled the Ring can be dangerous : ‘ if you had received this thing , it would have overthrown you . |
| 21 | The best that can be said of his success on that occasion is that it postponed the period of uncertainty that a split in the party would bring . |
| 22 | ‘ And you do n't think that can be related to his murder ? ’ |