Example sentences of "he [vb mod] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Her feelings for him may be guessed at from a text she wrote decades later , after Gustave 's death .
2 London 's influence was thus widespread , and the gardens attributed to him may be numbered in their hundreds .
3 Is there any distinction to be drawn between the words required to be spoken by a constable ( a ) acting pursuant to section 7(3) of the Act and ( b ) acting pursuant to section 8(2) thereof , after the suspect has been told , in the latter case , of his right to claim that the breath specimen taken from him should be replaced by a blood or urine specimen ?
4 " If there is anything in my suspicions , a letter addressed to him might be opened by someone privy to the forgery or fraud .
5 An argument for clemency toward him could be grounded in the belief that it would be a tactical error to declare Copernican doctrines heretical , because that might discourage Protestants from returning to the Roman fold .
6 What I owe him shall be paid in full , and I 'll make him count the coin over in his ruin .
7 Tyndale 's main problem for the rest of his life was to find a base on the Continent where there was a printing press , where its use by him would be tolerated by the authorities , and from which his translations and publications could be sent to England , either through sales at the great annual book fair at Frankfurt or by river and sea , hidden among the goods of friendly merchants .
8 Without technology like this , Jonathon and thousands like him would be debarred from even the simplest form of human interaction .
9 Salim 's flight to whatever is to become of him can be compared to the movement of these flowers , and to the Romeward journey in Virgil .
10 Everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself just as he is pure , That 's that 's Colin goes on to say , because you shall be like him does not mean that you are to care little about how much of him can be seen in your life .
11 A grammatical sequence such as On his victory his opponent congratulates him can be reordered in a number of different ways without affecting its propositional content .
12 But ( if permission is not a pre-1968 Act one ) the trench digger may be brought up against a further provision : he may be served with a ‘ completion notice ’ .
13 Depending on the circumstances and the provisions of the partnership agreement : ( 1 ) he may be justified in treating the service of an invalid expulsion notice as an event which in turn gives him the right to serve a similar notice ; or ( 2 ) he may ( not unreasonably ) be able to contend that the service of an invalid notice is such breach of good faith as to justify his seeking a dissolution of the firm ; or ( 3 ) he may be tempted to sue for damages , though these would be particularly difficult to quantify and it does not seem that the service of an invalid notice would be held to amount to a repudiatory breach of the partnership agreementsee Woodar Investment Development Ltd v Wimpey Construction UK Ltd [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 277. ( e ) Waiver of the right to expel Once circumstances exist which might justify the exercise of a power to expel , the partners should not delay bringing matters to a head .
14 If the overseas trustees validly accumulate the income , the income will not , under general principles , be taxable upon the beneficiary ( although he may be taxed under anti-avoidance provisions mentioned hereafter ) .
15 Depending on the precise circumstances it may be found that Master Smith is the settlor so that if he has any interest in the trust he may be taxed upon the same under , for instance , TA 1988 , s683 , or alternatively , if he has no interest under the trust , any payment to his minor unmarried children could be taxable upon him ( Master Smith ) under TA 1988 , s663 .
16 A sad blow , and he may be followed by coach Ian McIntosh who , as a paid official , is no longer allowed to be in charge .
17 For example , he may be faced with a frightening object which he does not wish to go past , and yet is being urged on by his rider .
18 ‘ Any person who feels that he may be affected by the suspension should contact their local office . ’
19 He may be disgusted , offended , annoyed , angered and no doubt a number of other things as well ; and he may be provoked by what he sees and hears into breaking the peace .
20 Without any application to the court , the mortgagee , if his mortgage is a conveyance of the legal estate or ownership , may take possession ; but this course is hazardous , since he may be called upon in a redemption action to account strictly not only for profits actually received by him , but also for those which he might but for his default have received , and all such profits , so far as they exceed the interest due for the time being , must be set off against the principal .
21 He may be called upon to represent a party to proceedings under Parts II , IV and V of the Act .
22 As courts began dealing with charges of theft and public order offences , a qualified referee was told he may be jailed for his part in the looting of a Blackpool jewellers .
23 Narain Dutt Tewari of Uttar Pradesh could be a contender if he wins the state election being held alongside the parliamentary one ; but he may be beaten by the BJP .
24 In this he may be assisted by the opportunity to use truncation , alphabetical lists of terms showing word variants , and so on .
25 According to myth , Cronus was placed in the heavens , where he may be seen as the planet SATURN .
26 Alternatively , he may be engaged in promoting harmonious relations between nations with differing languages and cultures .
27 When a detained person is charged with or informed that he may be prosecuted for an offence he shall be cautioned in the terms of paragraph 10.4 above .
28 If at any time after a person has been charged with or informed he may be prosecuted for an offence a police officer wishes to bring to the notice of that person any written statement made by another person or the content of an interview with another person , he shall hand to that person a true copy of any such written statement or bring to his attention the content of the interview record , but shall say or do nothing to invite any reply or comment save to caution him in the terms of paragraph 10.4 above .
29 Questions relating to an offence may not be put to a person after he has been charged with that offence , or informed that he may be prosecuted for it , unless they are necessary for the purpose of preventing or minimising harm or loss to some other person or to the public or for clearing up an ambiguity in a previous answer or statement , or where it is in the interests of justice that the person should have put to him and have an opportunity to comment on information concerning the offence which has come to light since he was charged or informed that he might be prosecuted .
30 He may be mistaken in his choice of means , but it is against nature that he should wish harm to his kingdom ’ A unified and consistent policy , it was often contended , could be carried on only by a monarch , not by a group of ministers each of whom had his own axe to grind ( this was a favourite argument of Frederick II in particular ) .
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