Example sentences of "he [modal v] be [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to allow that he may be right about one thing . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He may be mute for some minutes and have difficulty in naming objects and carrying out commands for a little while thereafter . |
| 4 | The police believe he may be responsible for three robberies which took place in the Thames Valley region in one afternoon . |
| 5 | A horse is the same in that he may be fit for one type of work but not another . |
| 6 | The buyer will be entitled to damages only and he will still have to pay the purchase price of the computer , although he may be able to set-off a sum representing the damages . |
| 7 | Shiva thought he should be grateful for all this , though he was not . |
| 8 | And Barbara , fed up with the Doctor 's taunts , gives him a piece of her mind , telling him he should be grateful for all their help . |
| 9 | Northants have signed up Mark Bowen but mainly for their Sunday League matches so he should be available for most of the Seasider 's Saturday games . |
| 10 | After the rest he should be involved in some activity which does not require too much physical effort . |
| 11 | For a start , the resident sound engineer did n't like it , because he had n't been consulted about its introduction and he maintained that he should be responsible for all sound equipment . |
| 12 | He knows so much about these things that he must be involved in some way , but he lets you have bits and pieces of information because you pay him . ’ |
| 13 | actually I think he 'll be alright with most of 'em , the problem he 'll have is wi with racket and croquet , the , the others I think he 'll be okay on it |
| 14 | The board thought , ‘ we 've got to give Larry Gains a title ; give him an Empire title and he 'll be satisfied with that . ’ |
| 15 | He says if he does n't stop drinking he 'll be dead in five year . |
| 16 | He 'll be dead in three weeks . ’ |
| 17 | He 'll be alone with all his sex neurosis and his class neurosis and his uselessness and his emptiness . |
| 18 | He might be pretentious in other ways , but he was not posing at the keyboard . |
| 19 | But he might be right about this . |
| 20 | He was pleasant enough in general , though most people who met him formed the vaguest of ideas that he might be dangerous in some unspecified way . |
| 21 | Lately , he had been of a mind to trace his son Arnold Thomas , but until such a day as he might be fortunate in that respect , he had no one except the lily-livered David . |
| 22 | On 17 May Marshalls wrote to the debtor confirming these terms , and mentioning that he might be entitled to legal aid with regard to litigation . |
| 23 | He would not treat them as sources of law past that point , but his general responsibility when he believes that law has run out is to make the best new law he can for the future , and he might be concerned with past legal doctrine for special reasons bearing on that issue . |
| 24 | The debtor 's affidavit evidence is in sharp conflict : he was given no advice on whether he might be eligible for legal aid , Mr. O'Connell was aware of his dire financial circumstances , the costs implications of the course recommended were not discussed , and he did not receive the letter . |
| 25 | It was true she 'd avoided him , had gladly left him to Merry , but it had n't occurred to her that he might be aware of that . |
| 26 | Home care for the stroke patient may be chosen because the patient 's doctor feels that the necessary rehabilitation can be done at home , or might be best done at home ; the patient may be more comfortable , and therefore more co-operative to treatment if he remains among familiar surroundings ; he might be liable to excessive stress if parted from his close family , friends or a beloved pet ; or it may be a temporary situation , in which the patient is waiting for a bed in a specialist rehabilitation unit to become available . |
| 27 | A builder will therefore not be liable under the Act for damage caused by a defect in the building because it was badly built , e.g. because the foundations were inadequate , though he might be liable under some other legal provision ( e.g. negligence or the Defective Premises Act 1972 ) . |
| 28 | And if he could be sure of that , there must be other things that he knew about himself . |
| 29 | She would have thought the better of him for it as well , Lugh knew he could be sure of that . |
| 30 | He knew that he was searching for sixteen points of comparison before he could be sure of positive identification . |