Example sentences of "[that] he [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He managed to dodge the GDR 's National People 's Army ( NVA ) for nine years ( no mean feat ) but now fears that he may yet be called to the colours in the west , as the proposed change in the law merely states that all those who have not yet done their time and who are under the age of 32 will be eligible . |
| 2 | If it had not been so , if I had found that — ’ grinding his teeth with menace ‘ — well , suffice it that he may yet live his natural life out ! ’ |
| 3 | In their discussion of this incident Asikpasazade and Nesri refer to " Mevlana Haydar " as danismend " newly come from Persia " , so that he may well have arrived in the Ottoman lands at about the same time as Fahreddin Acemi . |
| 4 | If there is to be detailed discussion of constitutional change , does he accept that the politicians who represent constituencies in England and Scotland and Wales will need to be consulted , and that he may well find that opinions have shifted substantially since the House last discussed the issue ? |
| 5 | I made an offer to the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside that he may well recall . |
| 6 | It is also worth noting , however , that Gregory 's family was closely associated with Dijon , and that he may well have relished the prospect of a major cult close to his family estates . |
| 7 | Biddlecombe 's new beat is around the horse sales … his year 's of racing expertise is being harnessed at last … and the best news of all is that he may soon be back in the saddle |
| 8 | Preservation of the status symbol for the instructor ( who may feel that he may no longer be of service if the ultimate user becomes fully proficient in the handling of the system ) . |
| 9 | He will be surprised — I fear that he may even be disappointed — by the figures that we shall announce next week , which specify the output that we expect from housing associations in 1992-93 . |
| 10 | Lord Bullock further suggests that he may even have been reluctant to transfer this particular responsibility to the United States . |
| 11 | And i it may be , for instance , erm that he may even have to intervene at the modification stage if something was going seriously wrong . |
| 12 | Apart from the chance that the customer may default on his payments ( perhaps even go bankrupt ) , there is the risk that he may also sell , damage or even destroy the goods . |
| 13 | An examination of the client 's hesitance , however , indicates that he is not at all sure about the terminology and that he may simply be echoing the wording of the charge . |
| 14 | It may be suggested that he may simply qualify somewhat and say that it is wrong for others to tell such lies and not for him , and that there is no purely logical inconsistency here . |
| 15 | The patient might rehearse in imagination the most constructive alternative so that he may readily adopt it if a crisis occurs . |
| 16 | bases on which he arrives at a decision that he may sometimes find considerable difficulty in making a good case on paper for some action he may have taken , even though he feels , and subsequent events may prove , that action to have been perfectly correct . |
| 17 | It is possible that he may still be a candidate for the post of Speaker of the House of Commons . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm told that he may still have been alive when the murderer , or murderers , hammered the shaft through his neck and into the floor of the hut . |
| 19 | At the age of 21 — with real fears that he may never work again — Mike is a statistic that should shame John Major . |
| 20 | In one letter to Virginia Woolf , he described the plight of an author anxious and dissatisfied with the work he is doing , and aware of the fact that he may never be able to write anything again . |
| 21 | If , for instance , he is on the common law side , the case that he is asked to consider may turn on the Landlord and Tenant Acts , the Rent Acts , the Consumer Protection Act , the Food and Drugs Act , the Town and Country Planning Acts , the Arbitration Act , tax law , separation , bankruptcy , conflict of laws , carriage of goods , insurance , and many other topics that he may never have studied at the University or for his Bar examinations He will not be expected , and will not need , to have every detail of all these subjects in his mind . |
| 22 | So , at the point when the meditator ends in prayer that he may always keep this passion in mind , he presents to himself an image which might easily coincide with that on a rood-screen , or painted panel . |
| 23 | His manner of playing the piano has something so basically individual about it , and at the same time so masterly , that he may really be described as the perfect virtuoso . ’ |
| 24 | Often the only paid member is the chairman , suggesting that he may really be in charge . |
| 25 | Such an interpretation is not inconsistent with Katib Celebi 's brief account , particularly if it is remembered that by his time the Seyhulislam had long since been the Mufti of Istanbul and that he may therefore have concerned himself with trying to sketch the history of the office only in so far as it related to that city . |
| 26 | It has even been darkly insinuated by Paolucci ( in Beccaria , 1963 ) that he may merely have been used as a front by his radical friends , the Verri brothers , who were too much in trouble with the authorities at the time to risk writing it themselves |
| 27 | Chris disapproves strongly of artificial methods of rearing , even if it means that he may only get one or two fry from a brood . |
| 28 | The child knows that he may only win the object or activity back by compliance . |
| 29 | Any actuarial calculation must therefore be discounted to allow for the chance that he may only live for a shorter period . |
| 30 | We must allow Jesus in the Eucharist to come out of isolation so that he may once again lead and save Christian society as its head ’ . |