Example sentences of "he [modal v] be [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teacher supplying the push may be helping to launch the career of a future gold medallist ; but equally he may be setting a youth off down a path to nowhere . |
| 2 | If the patient 's foot tends to twist as he stands on it , he may be given a special ankle support to help hold it comfortably in position . |
| 3 | He may be given a seat on the tribal council , a position of power and prestige . |
| 4 | Mr Smith may be very depressed or he may be having a nap . |
| 5 | When Gandalf says to Frodo of his wound on Weathertop , ‘ your heart was not touched , and only your shoulder was pierced ; and that was because you resisted to the last ’ , he may be making a moral statement ( Frodo was rewarded ) or a practical one ( he dodged , called out , struck back , put off the Ringwraith 's aim ) . |
| 6 | The implication here is , that a man desists from killing animals out of fear that he may be killing a reincarnated soul , but while it may be possible to draw that conclusion , the principle of identity clearly goes much deeper than that , and in fact it could be said to contradict Tillich 's suggestion since that is no more than enlightened self-interest . |
| 7 | The former speaker , who will start his new duties during a lecture tour of America this summer , will start on a commission basis , but , if his efforts are successful , he may be offered a stake in a formal American venture . |
| 8 | In the 1965 Stormont general election Claude Wilton of the Ulster Liberal Party had polled 47 per cent , and some members of the NILP thought that he should be given a clear run in the 1968 by-election , in the hope of defeating the Unionist candidate . |
| 9 | ‘ If Wright is guilty of hitting Howells like Davis hit me , then he should be given a nine-match ban , ’ he said . |
| 10 | In 1790 , when the county of Cromarty was being contested , one of the freeholders serving in the army demanded , as the price of his support for the candidate favoured by Henry Dundas , that he should be given a company in a regiment stationed in Britain . |
| 11 | This may in certain cases require not only that the applicant be informed of the evidence , but that he should be given a sufficient opportunity to deal with it . |
| 12 | He may , however , begin to think that , being judged capable of running his own show , he should be given a department of his own . |
| 13 | If the matter is to be discussed with the miscreant partner at all he should be given a genuine opportunity to put his case to all the other partners . |
| 14 | I consider that this must also hold good for the right of establishment : in order for a national of a member state to be eligible to be regarded as exercising his right of establishment in another member state , it is not enough that he should be operating a fishing vessel registered in that state ; in addition , his activity must have other links with the territory of that State . |
| 15 | ‘ But he should be playing a bit forward — maybe he 's too concerned at the moment with his defensive duties . |
| 16 | That fella up at Cecil 's , I should he must be getting a fortune . |
| 17 | He must know what evidence has been given and what statements have been made affecting him , and then he must be given a fair opportunity to correct or contradict them . " |
| 18 | Then , realising that sooner or later he must be given a reason for her presence , she repeated the one she had given Stella . |
| 19 | Reid has had a memorable season and as the big autumn events loom up he must be relishing a crack at races like the Prix de l'arc de Triomphe and the Champion Stakes . |
| 20 | Manager Brian Horton says he 'll be lodging an appeal against the player 's three match suspension . |
| 21 | Next time you see him , he 'll be using a knife and fork like the rest of us . |
| 22 | And he 'll be using an invention from the great wartime aircraft designer Barnes Wallis . |
| 23 | I 'm sure he 's done his England career a load of good … he 'll be concidered a good footballer now he 's at Rovers ( even though he 'll be doing eaxctly what he was at Leeds ! ! ! ! |
| 24 | The organiser of a country show which failed to pull in the crowds says he 'll be holding a full enquiry into what went wrong . |
| 25 | And he 'll be do a very good show rather a shy man but he will And that will be that will be rather technical if I know Adrian , but if you if you like he 's that 's the time to come . |
| 26 | The Rambler 's National President is so angry , he 'll be leading a mass protest here in two week 's time . |
| 27 | He 's gon na try but he 's not sure if he 'll get up in time cos he 'll be doing an essay in the night . |
| 28 | I do n't think he 'll be making an escape bid yet ! |
| 29 | He 'll be walking a tightrope trying to keep the farm profitable and respond to those pressures . |
| 30 | On the lighter side of his subject , he 's made a study of gambling habits from a statistical view point , and during the Open Day he 'll be giving a lecture entitled ‘ Horse and Football Pools — Why you should Expect to Lose ’ . |