Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [modal v] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Said that in future he 'd be obliged if I kept careful note of when Mr Meredith took out a horse . |
| 2 | Under the gloomy strip lighting of a police interrogation cell he might be stripped of his self-possession , and confess . |
| 3 | During debates on gravel extraction he could be seen flicking through its pages . |
| 4 | During debates on gravel extraction he could be seen flicking through its pages . |
| 5 | An " accommodated " child is not in care and as a general rule he may be removed at any time without prior notice . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's right to hand him back to the government of the country to which he belongs in the expectation that he will be properly treated and if he has committed a war crime he would be tried accordingly , ’ Lord Aldington replied . |
| 7 | She could not bear to watch him bathed for fear he might be dropped . |
| 8 | As part of the deal he may be forced to sell assets worth $2 billion within the next three years . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Once accepted by the employee he will be discharged forthwith from any contractual duties including compliance with the restraint of trade clause ( see General Billposting v Atkinson [ 1909 ] AC 118 ) . |
| 11 | As co-ordinator of the council 's work he will be brought daily into contact with the council 's officers to whom he should become guide , counsellor and friend . |
| 12 | At his little desk by the window he would be tolerated as long as nobody important came in , but when Riddle 's visitor wanted to discuss real business it would be , ‘ If you do n't mind , Matthew … ’ and Matthew would have to go . |
| 13 | Secondly , the court may order him to forfeit his office if he is convicted for corruption under the Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act 1889 , and if he is convicted a second time under that Act he may be adjudged incapable for ever of holding a public office . |
| 14 | All Otis could do now was wait to see how much compensation he would be given . |
| 15 | Robert Bossu had pursued the dispute here to Shrewsbury in search of diversion in a time of frustration and inaction , a pity he must be denied the best of the joke that was so much more than merely a joke . |
| 16 | If a Netter Mob has a Boss he may be armed with a club at a cost of +1 point . |
| 17 | Although a useful county cricketer he will be remembered as one of the greatest county captains of all time . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In return he would be allowed to continue in office , with his term not due to expire until 1996 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The oddity which the fellow-curates remarked was that as he walked in the procession from the vestry up the aisle he could be heard whistling . |
| 22 | Is there a danger he could be considered mad ? |
| 23 | To worry that your brother might make an unfortunate marriage when at any moment he might be killed was something she found difficult to understand . |
| 24 | In the UK , if a talented person applies for a job he will be turned away if there is no vacancy ; in the USA a job is likely to be created to take advantage of that person 's talents . |
| 25 | Although as a general he may be faulted , in diplomatic skill and political understanding he towered head and shoulders above his Middle Eastern rivals , Muslim and Christian alike . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | On Sept. 27 former Washington D.C. mayor Marion Barry was resentenced to six months in prison for cocaine possession [ see p. 38330 ] , but would remain at liberty until federal authorities decided which penitentiary he should be sent to . |
| 29 | And with a mass of highly critical evidence built up against him , chief executive Venables faces a mammoth task in trying to persuade the court he should be allowed to stay on the board despite his sacking on May 14 . |
| 30 | If you took an ‘ a ’ away from his name he would be called ‘ Stan ’ . |