Example sentences of "that he [modal v] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Any person who feels that he may be affected by the suspension should contact their local office . ’ |
| 2 | When a detained person is charged with or informed that he may be prosecuted for an offence he shall be cautioned in the terms of paragraph 10.4 above . |
| 3 | Questions relating to an offence may not be put to a person after he has been charged with that offence , or informed that he may be prosecuted for it , unless they are necessary for the purpose of preventing or minimising harm or loss to some other person or to the public or for clearing up an ambiguity in a previous answer or statement , or where it is in the interests of justice that the person should have put to him and have an opportunity to comment on information concerning the offence which has come to light since he was charged or informed that he might be prosecuted . |
| 4 | Worryingly for Eileen Delaney Pickle has vanished again today … raising fears that he may be caught in a trap once more . |
| 5 | He was , he informed us in his speech to the senate , fully aware that he may be accused of being naive . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've got an open mind on my future but I would love to stay on , ’ confessed Butcher , who has conquered fears that he may be forced into premature retirement through knee trouble . |
| 7 | Detectives are hoping that he may be trapped through a gold bracelet found at the scene of his latest crime . |
| 8 | … The proceedings in the present case are for the direct purpose of handing the appellant over so that he may be dealt with on these charges . |
| 9 | The well-known flash so-and-so Eric Johnson is so happy with his TA100R that he 'll be appearing in Trace Acoustic adverts . |
| 10 | The thought that he might be dealing with a supernatural force did not enter his mind . |
| 11 | One person on his own could not constitute a procession , but if a person were to march on his own , having publicised the fact widely in advance , it would seem that he might be said to be organising a procession if , Pied Piper like , he were to draw a crowd of supporters and followers . |
| 12 | It has been held by the Court of Appeal that the privilege against self-incrimination can be invoked in this context where , accepting the facts as alleged by the plaintiff , there is a reasonable apprehension on the part of the defendant that he might be prosecuted in the United Kingdom . |
| 13 | The background to the document has to be sought in Stirling 's fear that he might be absorbed into some top-heavy bureaucracy like Combined Operations or SOE . |
| 14 | It was somewhat surprising , then , that McIlvanney felt uneasy being approached for this profile , apparently for fear that he might be invited to ‘ pontificate , when I really do n't think I have that much to say ’ , It sounded like false modesty , but after he 'd relented , I remembered the long-standing ‘ pin-down ’ policy employed to prevent hubris in sports writers . |
| 15 | Chrzanowski ruled out inviting Jaruzelski to a Sejm meeting , but told the press that he might be summoned by a special committee , set up as a result of the resolution , to investigate ways of compensating people for wrongs inflicted for political reasons under martial law . |
| 16 | Separate allegations against Gates — suggesting that he might be implicated in illegal efforts to supply US arms and technology to Iraq via third countries such as South Africa and Chile — were also believed to have been made to congressional investigators and federal law enforcement officials . |
| 17 | That night he prayed devoutly that he might be upheld in the purity which he had so far , maintained , in spite of the temptations and evil example which encompassed him on all sides . |
| 18 | How do you know she 's left you ? ’ asked Pascoe , still suspicious that he might be listening to the self-deceiving euphemism of murder . |
| 19 | Looking at Saul Quatt , Theda could not help feeling that his fondest hope was likely to be that he might be struck by a thunderbolt ! |
| 20 | Because of this , he was less concerned that he might be considered by society at large as an unskilled ‘ yokel ’ — even if he was aware of the opinion of the world outside . |
| 21 | If my lover was having sex with someone else and it was just a one night stand or something insignificant , it would be far less important to me than some sort of emotional thing that he might be having with someone else . |
| 22 | There was a reasonable chance that he might be released from St Elizabeth 's : Eliot himself suggested a private sanatorium , to be followed by a retreat in California or New Mexico . |
| 23 | Liking Julia as he did , admiring her stringent intelligence , her honesty , the unexpected humility that would never let her give advice unless she was asked for it , and her unfailing reasonableness , it had never occurred to him that he might be falling in love with her . |
| 24 | For the first time since he was a professor at Cambridge , he began to hope , though with modesty , that he might be chosen for the work . |
| 25 | He evidently hoped that he would be recalled to power by popular acclamation and that the parties would be unable to work without him . |
| 26 | Their complaint was that the accountancy expert was going to interpret the agreement , which was a matter of law , and that he had announced that he would be assisted by a law firm . |
| 27 | The Jury said that he would be charged with the theft of the ring , and was going to be hanged but the ring had cost eleven pence and one halfpenny . |
| 28 | But for all those virtues , it would be ridiculous to expect that he would be enlightened by an account of gauge invariance or symmetry-breaking . |
| 29 | He remembered writing of Paula 's death , — of how he could not live without knowing the truth , and how , if he gave himself into the hands of the great Whale , he knew that he would be reunited with her in death . |
| 30 | The disadvantage is that he would be based at and he would still be working a twenty four hour shift system at . |