Example sentences of "his [noun pl] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a person criticizes the criminal justice system and uses as an example the handling of his case , are his opinions to be considered opinions ‘ regarding such crime ’ ? ’ |
| 2 | His father was a small Nottinghamshire landlord who was glad for one of his sons to be quartered on the Church . |
| 3 | Greatly did the Cid rejoice when he saw him alive and sound , and he ordered his chains to be taken off ; and then he left Alvar Fañez to look to the spoil , and went into Valencia with a hundred knights . |
| 4 | Political correspondents were told initially that the Prime Minister believed his activities to be ‘ unorthodox but in order ’ . |
| 5 | He was tried with the other regicides , but his trial was marred by inhumane treatment towards him ; he was in paroxysms of pain due to an attack of kidney stones but the court refused his requests to be allowed to urinate . |
| 6 | In practice the resolute supporter of Party A is not likely when he lists his preferences to be thinking primarily of any eventual cooperation between his party and Party B. His chief concern will be the success of as many as possible of Party A's candidates , and it will be to all of them that he gives his higher preferences . |
| 7 | He detests travelling alone , he is impossible to clip unless doped , he loathes vets and injections ( ‘ We can just about get a needle into a vein now he 's sixteen … ’ and he has to be sedated for his teeth to be rasped . |
| 8 | It is otherwise where the employee can be considered to be part of the " brains " of the company , ie sufficiently senior for his acts to be regarded as those of the company . |
| 9 | He was a man who liked his cases to be neat , to be finished in broad brush strokes . |
| 10 | Nor is he happy for his skills to be compared with those of a stand-up comic despite his highly persuasive double act with Ken Dodd , who later presented him with his own tickling stick . |
| 11 | He doubted whether Mapleton intended his words to be offensive . |
| 12 | then we may be sure both that the sergeant means his words to be perceived as an order , and that the private will perceive them as such . |
| 13 | If a person writes a book or magazine article denying that he has committed any crime , are his words to be interpreted as his opinion regarding the crime ? |
| 14 | But when a lawyer asserts that A can sue B , what he means is that A can sue B , successfully ; if he meant his words to be taken literally , they would not have been worth the uttering . |
| 15 | He will venture to suggest , with the greatest possible respect to Mr. Justice Blank , that his lordship perhaps did not intend his words to be understood in their widest acceptation . |
| 16 | Where the defendant is aware of the contents , however , as he generally will be with prosecutions under this section , the prosecutor must show that the defendant was aware that others might find his words to be threatening , abusive of insulting . |
| 17 | She had not been brutal enough to mention the office rumour and Ayling had not expected his words to be interpreted that way . |
| 18 | Whether they had much bearing on the ambition of Otto and his successors to be emperors may be doubted . |
| 19 | He opened his eyes to be caught by the early morning sun , and to see that Bicker and the Myrcans were already awake and fixing breakfast . |
| 20 | Yet , while he considers his relationships to be ‘ personal ’ and not a matter for newspaper talk , he played the public role of superstud for years . |
| 21 | He died before the end of April 1416 and was buried in Ringwood , Hampshire , in accordance with his directions to be buried there should he die within the province of Canterbury . |
| 22 | In 1989 , Lance Bombardier Steve Cummins , the soldier killed in Ulster , wrote it to his parents to be read at his death , and marked ‘ Anonymous . ’ |
| 23 | George comes from a large family and the home situation is acknowledged by his parents to be stressful because of overcrowding and financial difficulties . |
| 24 | I mean , it 's perfectly natural for his parents to be like that . |
| 25 | An independent inquiry into the death of Ashley Kriel , and for his killers to be brought to trial . |
| 26 | I was first introduced to his etchings in the very printing studios in London to which Green sent many of his plates to be editioned . |
| 27 | He chose Abraham and his descendants to be the channels of his mercy to a fallen world . |
| 28 | Marcus , thus present occasionally at Jack 's house , where he evidently felt his visits to be a matter of duty , inevitably encountered the women , who treated him with suitable respect and awe , and Jack , who was nervously affable , and even on two occasions Gildas to whom he nodded politely . |
| 29 | My father trained his dogs to be obedient and some were trained as gun dogs . |
| 30 | On receiving notice of the payment in , the plaintiff may either ( i ) lodge his bill of costs for taxation , or ( ii ) if he so opts or in any event where the amount recovered does not exceed £100 but exceeds £25 , ask for his costs to be assessed under costs Appendix C to the 1981 Rules ( see Costs Appendix C ) to which will be added the plaint fee ( Ord 38 , r 19 ) . |