Example sentences of "[that] he [modal v] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to allow that he may be right about one thing . |
| 2 | A horse is the same in that he may be fit for one type of work but not another . |
| 3 | If the designer is working on a project where a food and beverage manager has been appointed , he should always be involved from the inception of the project , in order that he may be aware of the development of the facility . |
| 4 | However , it is important for the designer to be aware of the nature and extent of the possibilities that are in principle available so that he may be able to exploit some of them when it seems appropriate . |
| 5 | They teach him the dynamic techniques of his art in order that he may be able to apply them , perhaps in a life-or-death predicament , on the streets . |
| 6 | We ask that they may know of your daily provision of all kinds of needs , and especially for Rob 's studies , that he may be able to learn and think with Your mind at all times . |
| 7 | A man can not be said to be truly willing unless he is in a position to choose freely , and freedom of choice predicates , not only full knowledge of the circumstances on which the exercise of choice is conditioned , so that he may be able to choose wisely , but the absence from his mind of any feeling of constraint so that nothing shall interfere with the freedom of his will ( Scott LJ in Bowater v Rowley Regis Corporation [ 1944 ] KB 476 ) . |
| 8 | When you apply for a job , your prospective employer will ask you to produce this card so that he may be satisfied of your eligibility to practise . |
| 9 | Hawking leaves the impression that he may be interested in God largely as a means of drawing an audience towards scientific ideas . |
| 10 | But we need to know a lot more about for example his housing costs , his rent and rate rebates that he may be entitled to and so on , before we can really say erm that we can make a proper comparison erm and different countries have different priorities . |
| 11 | I agree with the hon. Gentleman that every conceivable thing that can be done should be done to ensure that the applicant — the hon. Gentleman was right to say that he may be old and slightly confused — is assisted in filling out the forms . |
| 12 | The Transport Secretary , John McGregor , has hinted that he may be prepared to make concessions on rail privatisation to fend off a Conservative backbench rebellion . |
| 13 | And Saints hope the Bulldogs will let them keep their prize guy until late February so that he 'll be available for the second and third rounds of the Challenge Cup . |
| 14 | She speaks again , chattily this time , about her friend Cal and how nice it 'll be to see her again , and she hopes that he 'll be polite and help with the washing up . |
| 15 | Erm , I think I will give up being Chair this time , I 've done it too long , too long , and I 've had it John as Co-Chair during the year and I hope that he 'll be able to carry on as , as Chair Person , I think really I 've done it , done it for long enough erm , and we 'll have to ask , we hope , we hope the Treasurer just taken over will carry on |
| 16 | He says that he 'll be able to have that one it work and I 'll work for him tomorrow . |
| 17 | He seemed so nice and dependable — just the sort of person one would like for a brother — and it hurt her to think that he might be double-faced . |
| 18 | Edouard was worried that it might be difficult for Grégoire to adjust to St-Cloud , and that he might be homesick . |
| 19 | He was unarmed and I hoped that he might be one of the interpreters . |
| 20 | For ‘ proposing to carry lemons with us to Sky [ sic ] that he might be sure to have his lemonade ’ , Johnson ticked off Boswell — on two counts : that he , Sam , did not wish to be viewed as someone who could not do without his preferences ; and that it was ‘ very bad manners to carry provisions to any man 's house , as if he could not entertain you . |
| 21 | Bob was always evasive about Tessa , which made Jannie suspect that he might be serious about her . |
| 22 | They will not tell you a lot about what 's going to make him tick as an adult , except that he might be good at a particular academic subject . ’ |
| 23 | He was pleasant enough in general , though most people who met him formed the vaguest of ideas that he might be dangerous in some unspecified way . |
| 24 | Yes , and why had n't that occurred to her before — that he might be married with children ? |
| 25 | It is true that an inability to legislate upon certain matters might render a constitution prone to crisis but on others it would be far from necessarily fatal and at least one judge , in a common law country , has recently acceded to the proposition that he might be prepared to disavow the power of the otherwise unlimited New Zealand Parliament to enact law providing , for example , for human torture . |
| 26 | As he set off from Washington to campaign in Cleveland , Chicago and New York , he hinted strongly that he might be prepared to send American ground troops to join the UN peacekeepers who have gone to Macedonia to try to stop the Balkans war from spreading . |
| 27 | He hinted , at least , that he might be prepared to table a Government amendment on Report to cover the possibility of making the sale price known . |
| 28 | I hoped that he might be prepared to congratulate it on its 30 per cent . |
| 29 | But you 've actually got you 've manoeuvred him there in such a way that he might be prepared to accept that . |
| 30 | And , while her heart raced that there was a hint in what he 'd just said that he might be prepared to sightsee with her that afternoon , ‘ You must be parched ! ’ she apologised . |