Example sentences of "he [modal v] [be] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well could I I mean this is of course one of the criticisms that one had to bear about Mrs. Thatcher about erm they say he 's not his own man , that to me indicates that he may be taking advice . |
| 2 | Further to compound my mystification , he does not seem to realise that according to Christian dogma , God is not only loving but also just and that He may be calling Christians to a future life which is not necessarily ‘ better ’ than the present . |
| 3 | If a person is unfairly dismissed he may be awarded compensation . |
| 4 | Lord Simon of Glaisdale has written : ‘ In 1951 Sir Winston [ Churchill ] particularly wanted [ Sir Walter Monckton ] in the unenviable post of Minister of Labour , and ( presumably by way of compensation ) undertook in writing that he should be appointed Lord Chief Justice on the next vacancy . ’ |
| 5 | He used to be 100% sure of what was needed … but not only the defensive problems … things so obvious as using Deane and Whelan when he should be using Deane/Wallace . |
| 6 | Is n't it he should be taking care of us ? ’ |
| 7 | Hagans solicitor augued there was little evidence for the earlier rape charge , he should be granted bail . |
| 8 | He had then sought to usurp him by demanding an EC inquiry into French 's affairs and by getting himself , though contrary to Rule as a non-sailor , elected as Delegate to the 1911 Annual General Meeting with a demand that he should be made Glasgow secretary in French 's place , only breaking away when he was not permitted to attend . |
| 9 | When the Haldanes challenged the Campbell influence in Stirling , they promised Deacon Ellise of the hammermen that he should be made smith of the Castle and that a member of the tailor 's trade should replace the castle storeman . |
| 10 | Members hope to convince Mr Milburn that he should be targeting criminals who find it easier than ever to get hold of an unlicensed firearm . |
| 11 | He should be dubbed Sir Hubert . |
| 12 | In R. v. Inner London Education Authority ex parte Ali a parent failed to persuade the court that he should be awarded damages for the failure of the respondents to fulfil their statutory duty to provide sufficient schools . |
| 13 | But he should be having contact with year nine . |
| 14 | I am not advocating thrombolysis in the absence of that , but provided that is available and he keeps his head and the family respect the GP , then he should be giving thrombolysis . |
| 15 | ‘ He should be running Walt Disney . |
| 16 | It was wrong what he did but he should be shown compassion . ’ |
| 17 | He must be hearing things . |
| 18 | Convinced for some reason that he must be called Paul , I addressed him as such . |
| 19 | Clayton home late last night and I thought he must be taking Lorraine home . |
| 20 | Thought he must be taking Lorraine home this time of night . |
| 21 | But er but when Marguerite says she 's thinking of having a couple for her living room that ca n't be pictures of somebody else 's room she 's putting up , he must be taking snaps . |
| 22 | If he was really living in the house he must be taking pains to leave no signs of his occupancy . |
| 23 | But once he 's , once he 's resigned himself to that , he 's then got ta look at that operation next door and he must be losing money hand over fist for the amount of space it is . |
| 24 | Therefore Sharpe must die , and if he was not to be killed in a duel , then he must be taken care of in another way and , in the darkness as Lord John had said his farewells , Jane had urged him to the other way . |
| 25 | Billy Crystal has a perfect wife and beautiful daughter but feels rattrapped trying to support them , Daniel Stern is having an affair with a teenage supermarket assistant and has been reduced to pretending to sleep at social gatherings in order to avoid his nagging wife , and womanising Bruno Kirby has finally tied the knot with a glamorous bimbo half his age ( ‘ soon he 'll be dating sperm ’ , observes Crystal ) and agonises over whether he can stay faithful to her . |
| 26 | How best to but during that talk and this is where we need to concentrate he 'll be dropping snippets of information . |
| 27 | And when he gets a break from the circuit just before Christmas , he 'll be taking wife Anne and baby George to Florida so that he can train in the sun . |
| 28 | He 'll be taking charge of coaching , recruitment and welfare of the players . |
| 29 | As David Nicholson said he 'll be taking orders from the jockey today instead of the other way around . |
| 30 | Well the farmers for the last couple of years have been arguing that they want this green rate devalued er to try and bring it line more with the market rate er and what this would do would er increase our guaranteed prices in this country and in fact on Friday this happened er the green rate was devalued by 60%. er and so I 've done a few calculations er and for the farmers that are listening and er may understand this er if he was selling his grain in November 89 he would be getting about £99 a ton , whilst if he sells it in November this year he 'll be getting £110 a ton . |