Example sentences of "he [modal v] be [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ Any person who feels that he may be affected by the suspension should contact their local office . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In this he may be assisted by the opportunity to use truncation , alphabetical lists of terms showing word variants , and so on . |
| 6 | If the patient reader is not surfeited by all this playing with numbers he may be entertained by a calculation of the " expenditure " of a vote originally given to Paisley with a second preference for Bill Craig and a third for some other candidate . |
| 7 | Finally , the 1987 Act provides that where a minor has acquired property under a contract which is unenforceable against him , or which he has repudiated on the grounds of minority , he may be required by the court , when it thinks it ‘ just and equitable ’ to do so , to return the property , or else property representing that which he has acquired ( without prejudice to any other remedy available to the plaintiff ) . |
| 8 | Under this section he may be ordered by the licensing board to make alterations , and failure to comply with such an order is an offence . |
| 9 | If the expert is negligent he may be sued by either party ( Arenson v Casson Beckman Rutley & Co [ 1977 ] AC 405 ) . |
| 10 | He helped to make laws , though it never really occurred to him that he should be governed by them . |
| 11 | ‘ But I do n't see why he should be troubled by these details . |
| 12 | And he had gone out by the front door , presumably to present an appearance of normality if he should be seen by any of the family — a late evening stroll before bed being a simple enough amusement — while she could save the whole circuit of the house by using the back door close to the kitchen . |
| 13 | stresses the importance of direct experience in the education of children : ‘ Children soon forget what they say or what is said to them , but not what they have done nor what has been done to them ’ ; ‘ Give your scholar no verbal lessons ; he should be taught by experience only ’ ( ibid . |
| 14 | In the first week of February , while Dowding was at the World Economic Forum at Davos , Switzerland [ see p. 37268 ] , influential members of the state ALP apparently decided that he should be replaced by Lawrence , then State Education and Aboriginal Affairs Minister . |
| 15 | A journalist politician , Meredith Herbert , is made a minister — perhaps in order that he should be damaged by having to deal with the people on the streets ; he is , perhaps , physically beaten up . |
| 16 | When he finally named seven people he was told he should be comforted by the fact that all of them were already under subpoena to appear . |
| 17 | In my view every survivor of that gallant band who kept the wartime lifelines open should not only get his medal by right , but a cash grant too , and he should be honoured by an invitation to take part in a special parade through the City of Liverpool during the commemoration in May . |
| 18 | The price intellectuals pay is that they are dependent on the government for both professional and financial recognition , since ‘ the most important definition of an intellectual is that he should be recognised by the government as such ’ ( Riding : 1986 , p. 428 ) . |
| 19 | The cases do suggest , however , that where a director does possess a relevant expertise he should be judged by the standards of a competent practitioner of it , presumably on the ground that he has expressly or impliedly held himself out as being appropriately qualified . |
| 20 | When the Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) first screened the videotape of the Dec. 14 demonstration on state television in June [ see p. 37544 ] , Mladenov denounced it as a " slanderous montage " , but experts ruled it authentic on July 4 , whereupon Mladenov in a nationwide broadcast declared that his remark had been taken out of context , and that he should be judged by deeds not words . |
| 21 | During pre-trial hearings at the Old Bailey , Mr Greenway 's counsel argued that he should be tried by his fellow MPs and not a court of law . |
| 22 | He was only forty-three when he died , arid the French , seizing the opportunity to reinforce their influence , insisted that he should be succeeded by his son , Bao Dai , then a boy of twelve still at school in Paris . |
| 23 | CZECHOSLOVAKIA 's playwright-turned-politician , Mr Vaclav Havel , moved a step nearer to the presidency yesterday when the country 's Communist Prime Minister , Mr Marian Calfa , recommended that he should be installed by the end of the year . |
| 24 | In support of one of these views , James Michie ( 1964 : 9 ) writes in his translator 's preface " It is better that Horace should be " done down " into English than that he should be undone by the gradual disappearance of Latin from our culture " . |
| 25 | His family are anxious that he should be remembered by contributions to the Combined Oncology Fund ( contributions should be sent to Frankie Brown , ) . |
| 26 | Presumably this is intended as a safeguard : if the Home Secretary is not in his office , he must be contacted by telephone if necessary to give his consent . |
| 27 | He was told that there was a waiting list and that he must be referred by his General Practitioner , as a National Health Service patient , in order that the local Health Authority provide the necessary funding , as the operation is only available on the N.H.S. |
| 28 | But to be more than a failed one-term president , he must be driven by these brickbats to decide what kind of president — indeed , what kind of man — he really wants to be . |
| 29 | He 'll be examined by psychiatrists , who will then make recommendations as to where he should be sent next . |
| 30 | He 'll be missed by Ireland next Wednesday |