Example sentences of "he [vb mod] be [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However that same landlord may be introducing tube wells , tractors and high-yielding varieties of seeds , and therefore wish to get rid of the large number of inefficient workers to whom he may be partly responsible for housing , clothing , looking after their aged or sick , and also to whom a sizeable proportion of the additional benefit from these improved inputs would accrue . |
| 2 | He may be just naive and well meaning . |
| 3 | He may be rather reluctant and could need stronger riding initially until he is underway . |
| 4 | He may be completely landless , or it may be that his plot is n't big enough and he has to spend part of his time , or part of his family has to spend part of their time , working for somebody else to get in some extra money or possibly renting land from somebody else . |
| 5 | At such moments he may be most culpable vis-à-vis a responsible sexual politics ( lesbian , gay , and feminist ) , but most revealing about the ‘ nature ’ of sexual desire . |
| 6 | If there is enough snow to make a really big snowman , he may be as tall as Mr A. on the first day , but as he melts , he will shrink to be as tall as Miss B. and then as small as the smallest child , until he finally disappears . |
| 7 | For all I know he may be as fresh and innocent as the dawn 's early dew . ’ |
| 8 | He may be as tough as a dinosaur , but he 's as gentle as a lamb . |
| 9 | If you are not called in , you will be asked to leave the ring — do n't despair , another judge may like your horse or he may be more suitable for another type of class . |
| 10 | Now he knows I am here he may be more careful , or he may act more quickly than he had planned . ’ |
| 11 | He may be so anxious to please you that he tries extra hard to be good . |
| 12 | Or he may be so sick he ca n't get up . |
| 13 | However , if the draftsman wishes to make time of the essence of some but not all of the procedural steps he should be particularly careful to make it clear which steps carry strict time limits and which do not ( as the draftsman failed to do in Bradley ( C ) & Sons Ltd v Telefusion Ltd ( 1981 ) 259 EG 337 and Art & Sound v West End Litho [ 1992 ] 1 EGLR 138 ) . |
| 14 | Miracle Squares I think there 's a lot of thought gone into it you know , it ca n't be easy to re er to , to just dream up a game erm , I like the one about you go to the last supper and the waiter spills soup on your trousers , the waiter , ha tell you else about the Marx brothers an'all , the waiter is er the king of Snowdonia and it 's Groucho Marx , the , they 've got this massive hall , and er these big steps leading down into it you know and as , as they 're coming in there 's somebody at the top and Ann says who 's , who 's walking in and they walk down the stairs you know and Mr and Mrs and the king has you know and he says oh the king Snowdonia is about to arrive , he should be here any minute now , he should be here dead on this time you know , he gets these big fanfare trumpets up da , da , da , da , the king of Snowdonia , and there 's nothing and all of a sudden it flashes to Groucho Marx and then he 's in bed with |
| 15 | He should be less modest . |
| 16 | I usually keep him in when I wash his clothes and I got them special for the cold weather so he should be all right . |
| 17 | In this he should be fully aware of the options available . |
| 18 | He should be quite easy to trace . |
| 19 | He apologised in advance if he should be too expert , but Jessica conceded graciously she had nothing against technique per se , it just got in the way of animal passion sometimes . |
| 20 | He should be too ashamed . " |
| 21 | He should be as prepared to place a bet on completion before this date as on completion after it . |
| 22 | He should be as prepared to place a bet on completion before this date as on completion after it . |
| 23 | I wish nothing more for Pen than that he should be as fine as his father . ’ |
| 24 | That 's what I ca n't forgive — that he should be so gormless ! ’ |
| 25 | Yet , although making war was a fairly routine element in the life of an active nobleman , it was very rare indeed that one was killed ; partly because , in the face of danger , a noble could don his expensive and effective armour , his helmet and coat of mail ; and partly because his opponents did not try to kill him — if he should be so unfortunate as to be at their mercy they preferred to capture him and ransom him . |
| 26 | He stood in the middle of the room and stared mistrustfully round him , wondering why he should be so favoured . |
| 27 | Paul left for the north again with a light heart , aware of surprise that he should be so glad to be returning after arriving , at first , so unwillingly . |
| 28 | ‘ He should be so lucky . ’ |
| 29 | Maybe they felt his concentration had just waned a little bit late on but he 's er he 's had a good game he should be very pleased with his contribution . |
| 30 | It was an exquisitely warm afternoon in Aswan-just the sort of day for which the swallows fly so far , When the Shah walked slowly down from the plane , looking drawn and exhausted , Sadat stepped forward to kiss him on both cheeks — despite advice from his officials that he should be more circumspect with the fallen King . |