Example sentences of "he [modal v] [adv] be [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or he may secretly be under guard in Dracula 's castle . |
| 2 | I think he may still be in love with this English girl , Madeleine . ’ |
| 3 | Often the only paid member is the chairman , suggesting that he may really be in charge . |
| 4 | He must still be in dere … ’ |
| 5 | As long as a son holds on to the mother as a love-object he must ineluctably be in conflict with the father , just as , conversely , as soon as he accepts the paternal authority and identifies with his father to constitute his superego he must suppress his fundamental parricidal antagonism and with it his incestuous fixation . |
| 6 | Owen , feeling at last that he ought to retire from contra matters — — but remembering what he had sworn ‘ on the altar of God ’ — hoped that he might still be of use to North ‘ against another group of Godless communists . ’ |
| 7 | He has one fitted here as well as at the office , so he need never be in doubt about agreements he reaches or deals he makes . |
| 8 | He would routinely be in contact with the office and with , for example , Bruce Kent and Joan Ruddock . |
| 9 | ‘ Although it may be too early for Stuart Pearce at the present time , he will surely be in contention at some stage in the future . ’ |
| 10 | He will also be in charge of reform of the civil service . |
| 11 | He will also be in touch with all the local voluntary services for the elderly and disabled , whose help he can raise . |
| 12 | Given a good performance today he will clearly be in line for a place at Wembley . |
| 13 | He will immediately be under pressure . |
| 14 | A may not terminate the contract on the ground that B has committed a breach by not opening a confirmed credit — but he may insist that B opens a confirmed credit within a reasonable time and , if B does not do so , he will then be in breach of contract . |
| 15 | He will still be in hospital when the replay is held next Monday at Villa Park . |