Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] he [modal v] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if the minister is right and a partner in the firm or indeed an assistant in the firm a acting as a tax advisor or financial planner , might come across something er tha that er if er he were acting as auditor he would be bound to report . |
| 2 | If Brian sued John for negligence he could be met with the defences of volenti non fit injuria and contributory negligence . |
| 3 | She could not bear to watch him bathed for fear he might be dropped . |
| 4 | Later on the same page he makes this challenging statement ‘ If any of us actually had the power to release souls from purgatory and refused to exercise that power except in return for a payment of money he would be considered cruel and unchristian — which indeed he would be . ’ |
| 5 | Pardoning them in return for a fine of £18,840 , he initially demanded that in the prologue to the official grant of pardon he should be styled ‘ sole protector and supreme head of the English Church and clergy ’ . |
| 6 | Firstly , if the defendant receives the information in the knowledge that it is being disclosed in breach of confidence he will be bound by an obligation of confidence ( see for example Albert ( Prince ) v Strange ( 1849 ) 1 Mac & G 25 , Schering Chemicals v Falkman [ 1981 ] 2 WLR 848 ) . |
| 7 | Myler , 31 , was seeing a specialist amid fears he could be advised to quit . |
| 8 | That would mean that even if the final decision rested with the Secretary of State he would be seen by all concerned parties to be basing his judgment on neutral , expert scientific advice . |
| 9 | ( 1 ) Before any third party is registered as the transferee of shares he will be asked to execute a deed of adherence binding him to the terms of the subscription and shareholders ' agreement . |
| 10 | The girls were now too close to their exam , too anxious to do more than lift their faces to him , but out of the tiredness and filth of lime he could be seen looking often at their heads bent over the lamplit pages in what looked close to melancholy and sunken reflection . |
| 11 | If the patient reader is not surfeited by all this playing with numbers he may be entertained by a calculation of the " expenditure " of a vote originally given to Paisley with a second preference for Bill Craig and a third for some other candidate . |
| 12 | He had n't dared take part in yesterday 's Armistice Day service in the city in case he 'd be seen by any of his IRA comrades . |
| 13 | In FI he 'll be remembered more as Mr Nice than as a great driver : he won his championship in a car that probably a half-dozen drivers would have driven equally competently and successfully , and in that one year lost the one man who could really push him to greater excellence , Ronnie Peterson . |
| 14 | Alternatively or in addition he may be co-opted on to other public bodies , such as hospital authorities , water authorities , etc . |
| 15 | Said that in future he 'd be obliged if I kept careful note of when Mr Meredith took out a horse . |
| 16 | Where a defendant is familiar with the trade in question he may be taken to have knowledge of the existence of a contract even though he can not identify the other contracting party and even though he may have no direct information about any particular contract at all . |
| 17 | In return he would be allowed to continue in office , with his term not due to expire until 1996 . |
| 18 | Two years later , at a meeting at the Soviet Ministry of Culture , Ortiz asked that in return he should be allowed to select an exchange exhibition to be shown in the West . |
| 19 | Failing compliance with these requests Sir Stafford Cripps should be informed that he no longer fulfils the conditions of membership of the Labour Party , and that in consequence he will be excluded there from . |
| 20 | His return to Scotland late in 1555 was reluctant , and seems to have been less concerned with the Protestant cause than a personal one ; in Edinburgh he could be reunited with Elizabeth Bowes and her daughter Marjory , whom he had met while a preacher at Berwick , and marry Marjory . |
| 21 | If Lindberg was to come to Tromsø he would be hung from a lamp-post , probably by his balls . |
| 22 | At the moment it looks as though Ezzoud , who won the Juddmonte International at York will take his chance and after that shock win over Sabrehill he must be fancied . |
| 23 | At the moment it looks as though Ezzoud , who won the Juddmonte International at York will take his chance and after that shock win over Sabrehill he must be fancied . |
| 24 | But on Thursday he will be given the chance to resurrect an international career which looked dead and buried , and urged to start knocking over Australian wickets in more orthodox fashion ! |
| 25 | The player was adamant that if he was to play for Huddersfield he must be allowed to live in Newcastle . |
| 26 | The war made severe inroads into his livelihood and at times he would be forced onto the hills to join the gangs doing the walling , but he hated being away from his family and they too suffered from the separation and besides the wages were not enough for all seven of them . |
| 27 | For the purposes of mens rea or the mental state of the accused , where his awareness is impaired by intoxicants he shall be taken to be aware of that which he would have been aware if not intoxicated , unless he shows either that his intoxication was not self-induced or that it was caused solely by the taking or administration of a substance in the course of medical treatment ( Section 6(5) ) . |
| 28 | When other ships were sunk by icebergs he would be telephoned by newsmen eager for him to imagine the fate of the victims . |