Example sentences of "he [modal v] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may be taken as an example of a first type of critic , the advocate . |
| 2 | If he finds it necessary to copy , to study the work of other painters , or any way to seek for help out of himself , he may be sure that he has received nothing of that inspiration . |
| 3 | Sometimes the teacher is absent from the group , as Gustave Moreau was absent from the painting exhibited by the Fauves ; or , like Tom Taylor of the Group of Seven , he may be dead . |
| 4 | By then , however , Patrick has been informed , by an office placeman and fuddy-duddy who believes that trendiness has ruined everything , that smelly Simon , though he may be obnoxious , is not Jewish . |
| 5 | ‘ He may be a lord but he 's no gentleman , ’ said Mr Eames Loftily . |
| 6 | But do n't forget he may be thinking of messing around with you . ’ |
| 7 | He may be mad . |
| 8 | Can any man who identifies himself with the British world of letters , however independent and tolerant he may be , write a fair-minded book about Pound ? |
| 9 | As courts began dealing with charges of theft and public order offences , a qualified referee was told he may be jailed for his part in the looting of a Blackpool jewellers . |
| 10 | As the part requires an actor of substantial proportions , the obvious choice would be someone like John Candy or John Goodman ( of David Byrne 's True Stories and Channel Four 's Roseanne ) — though he may be simply too nice to play Ignatius , and is anyway busy perfecting his bowling technique for his upcoming appearance as Fred in the live-action version of The Flintstones . |
| 11 | He was apparently found to be running a temperature , but after a long season of competing in the best company , he may be past his best . |
| 12 | It is because God is not subject to such things that He may be said not to suffer , at least in the way human beings do . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | On the penultimate page of Black Skin , White Masks Fanon declares that one of the things that he , the man of colour , wants is ‘ that it be possible for me to discover and to love man , wherever he may be ’ . |
| 15 | For instance , the manager of an airline , however committed he may be to an efficient seat reservation system , may be obliged to withdraw seats already allocated in favour of a minister and his train of attendants . |
| 16 | He may be like a banana tree or a coconut tree , half human in appearance , revolting in every way , but caring for him is still a woman 's duty if he 's her husband . |
| 17 | Disgraced he may be , yet is not dethroned , And keeps the rags of Lordship once he owned . |
| 18 | ‘ He may be coming back , you know , ’ Any said , ignoring or not noticing Ted 's remark . |
| 19 | He may be the principal dancer at the Bolshoi Ballet but , when it came to fashion , Yuri Vasyuchenko was trailing way behind . |
| 20 | He may be surprised at encountering an opponent in this weight division who stands 5ft 8in and has something special in body punches . |
| 21 | He may be tempted to poach some of his promising-looking freshmen to strengthen Goldie , or even the Blue boat . |
| 22 | ‘ He may be ugly , but at least he writes good songs . ’ |
| 23 | He may be right . |
| 24 | Labour showed some chagrin that the Tories had stolen a march on them by ending conscription , but even Aneurin Bevan , the shadow Foreign Secretary and a unilateralist at heart , accepted the need for the British nuclear deterrent , making his famous remark that to abandon it would ‘ send a British Foreign Secretary , whoever he may be , naked to the conference table ’ . |
| 25 | As part of the deal he may be forced to sell assets worth $2 billion within the next three years . |
| 26 | Mr Kohl seems worn out , as well he may be , after the helter-skelter dash to unity last year . |
| 27 | He may be willing to use his new powers as executive president to brush aside resistance . |
| 28 | If that seems to be the Russian price for full German unity , and if Mr Kohl 's instincts tell him it is also his price for winning the next German election , he may be tempted to go for it . |
| 29 | Narain Dutt Tewari of Uttar Pradesh could be a contender if he wins the state election being held alongside the parliamentary one ; but he may be beaten by the BJP . |
| 30 | He may be shy at first , but after a while he will get over that : he is not half so shy as he was , of course not . |