Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 4 ) At the hearing the arbitrator may adopt any method of procedure which he may consider to be convenient and to afford a fair and equal opportunity to each party to present his case . |
| 2 | He may need to be able to use apparatus , and generally speaking science teachers are accustomed to explaining necessary points about its use and keeping a close watch on safety . |
| 3 | Maybe he 'll have to be content with merely doing all the work , but there 's compensations in being indispensable , too . ’ |
| 4 | Sue can fetch up with some young twat if she wants to , but I think he 'll have to be desperate as well . |
| 5 | The wing fracture is a bad one , and he 'll have to be certain it has healed properly before the bird is released . |
| 6 | He 'll have to be quick . |
| 7 | ‘ But he 'll need to be slippery all right , with coppers and criminals after him . ’ |
| 8 | He might endure to be forsworn and dishonoured , but he would not endure to be defeated . |
| 9 | I thought he might want to be alone . ’ |
| 10 | Some pundits were , rather foolishly , speculating that he might prove to be better than all of them . |
| 11 | He might prove to be useful but would have to be handled carefully . |
| 12 | the resources which he could expect to be available to him for the purpose of meeting the liability should it arise ; and |
| 13 | He could afford to be casual about the odd Force Nine . |
| 14 | At this moment she is all mine and without Faustina , Mark thought , then added quickly , ‘ I wonder what Faustina is doing now , ’ for he could afford to be generous among the azaleas , with Sophia 's hand in his . |
| 15 | He could afford to be crazy . |
| 16 | Of course , he could afford to be amused . |
| 17 | He 'd have to be careful . |
| 18 | He would pretend to be asleep . |
| 19 | Then she quashed the thought ; naturally he would pretend to be surprised , to have no idea of what she was getting at . |
| 20 | Of course the answer is changing the myth would have made Moses Hebrew and not Egyptian , because if Moses had been the daughter of Pharaoh he would had to been Egyptian and that the Hebrews could n't tolerate because at a later stage their religion became strongly ethnic and racially divided , you really got to be born Jewish to be Jewish , so they could n't tolerate their , their founding fathers of not being anything but Jewish , so they altered it , they changed the records and they falsified the myth , but they left this glaring inconsistency in it , so the myth is no longer it 's er rewritten and this is one of the little bits of evidence and now of course erm if you do n't take psychoanalyst insights into the family romance seriously , that may not cut much ice for you , but if you erm appreciate the force of these unconscious stereotypes in creating this like this , it 's cert it 's a quite potent piece of evidence because you think well why should the , the Bible change the myth , why ca n't it just put up with the normal myth . |
| 21 | Local Liberal Party records bear him out in his assertion of this fixity of purpose and he would appear to be correct in his estimation that : |
| 22 | Of course he would like to be prime minister ‘ one day ’ . |
| 23 | Paddy began the week saying he would like to be Prime Minister . |
| 24 | If a Maestro was going to appear , however , he would need to be swift . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , but , madam , if the fellow is a tout — tout , is that the word ? — for one of the hotels here , is it not likely he would need to be ascending like us ? ’ |
| 26 | For what it is worth , every typist would have to have an error rate of about one in a trillion ; that is , he would have to be accurate enough to make only a single error in typing the Bible 250,000 times at a stretch . |
| 27 | He would have to be audacious . |
| 28 | Before rehearsals started , he got himself in trim by running every day , knowing that he would have to be ultra-fit for each night 's three-hour performance , appearing on stage for almost every minute of it . |
| 29 | But if he really loved her he would have to be prepared to let her go . |
| 30 | He would have to be careful . |