Example sentences of "he [modal v] be [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must know … not only the influences to which he may be made to respond , but those to which his nature is now day by day responding — the complex environment which … is the unconscious education of his body and mind and will . |
| 2 | He may be tempted to poach some of his promising-looking freshmen to strengthen Goldie , or even the Blue boat . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If that seems to be the Russian price for full German unity , and if Mr Kohl 's instincts tell him it is also his price for winning the next German election , he may be tempted to go for it . |
| 5 | He may be taught to hold it with the crook of the handle turned away from him , and his thumb over the top of the handle , so that he does not grip the stick too hard . |
| 6 | Alternatively he may be instructed to do so by the Scottish Office . |
| 7 | THE spokesman for the convicts in a squeaky-clean Danish jail says he will vote No : he fears he may be sent to do his sentence in less salubrious surroundings elsewhere in the European Community if the Maastricht treaty is ratified . |
| 8 | He may be asked to take notes of the evidence . |
| 9 | It is the patient who helps to decide on the course of his care and he may be asked to help to draw up objectives of care . |
| 10 | If , on the other hand , B is already the heir of A , then he has received a benefit under A 's estate , and so far as that benefit extends he may be asked to make over property to C. If he does so , however , this is regarded as restitution of property from A 's estate rather than as an institution to B's own estate . |
| 11 | That he may be destined to drift helplessly , tormented by unrealisable and therefore useless dreams . |
| 12 | clients ' understanding of risk warn the Client of the extent to which he may be exposed to risk |
| 13 | And from now until September he will be concentrating on his athletics training as he may be selected to compete for Britain in the Paralympics in Barcelona . |
| 14 | If in the exercise of his own capacity to do so he transfers or transmits the opportunity to B with the knowledge or assurance or expectation that the opportunity will consequently pass from B to C without any further act on A's part , he may be said to provide C with the opportunity indirectly . |
| 15 | ‘ So rigorous is he ( i.e. McGavran ) in dispelling romantic notions and false theological rationalisations of non-growth that he may be said to have de-mythologised this subject . |
| 16 | Secondly , he may be said to have challenged and broken the enhanced idea of empire , albeit with the help of circumstances . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | More than this , he appears to have served on numerous committees dealing with a wide range of bills : in this way , perhaps more than any other , he may be considered to have , as he put it , ‘ done my country some good , whereunto we are all called ’ . |
| 19 | If the original document is in the possession of a third party he may be compelled to produce it by issue of a witness summons . |
| 20 | He may be required to live away from home for a period as part of the " treatment " programme devised by the supervisor . |
| 21 | He may be required to report to a particular individual or place at regular intervals as part of a monitoring process . |
| 22 | To avoid customers being prejudiced in this way , a firm must not effect a contingent liability transaction unless it can show that it believes on reasonable grounds that the customer understands : ( 1 ) The circumstances under which he may be required to provide any margin ; ( 2 ) Particulars of the form in which the margin may be provided ; ( 3 ) Particulars of the steps which the firm may be entitled to take if the customer fails to provide the required margin ; ( 4 ) That failure by the customer to meet a margin call may lead to the firm closing out his position after time limits specified by the firm , and that the firm will be required to close out the position in any event after a period of five business days ; and ( 5 ) That circumstances other than failure to provide margin may lead to the customer 's position being closed out with prior reference to him . |
| 23 | If the order includes provision for medical or psychiatric examination or treatment he may be required to ensure that the child complies ( see below ) . |
| 24 | ‘ that a person who has entered into the contract may either affirm or avoid such contract after the duress has ceased ; and if he has so voluntarily acted under it with a full knowledge of all the circumstances he may be held bound on the ground of ratification , or if , after escaping from the duress , he takes no steps to set aside the transaction he may be found to have affirmed it . ’ |
| 25 | Perhaps his former master will allow him to continue to read his papers ; or he may be permitted to read the papers of another in his own chambers with whom he is on friendly terms . |
| 26 | He had had to give up fighting blazes and now worked in the fire prevention service — although he may be forced to quit the post . |
| 27 | He may be forced to act in a certain way out of moral considerations which still involves him in feelings of guilt and remorse . |
| 28 | If a customer was unaware of the need to provide variation margin from time to time and had insufficient available funds to meet margin calls , then he may be forced to liquidate his position at a loss even though , had the contract been allowed to run to maturity , it may have closed at a profit . |
| 29 | Even the trust 's director of emergency services , Nigel Brayley , warned he may be forced to close either Harwich or Clacton casualty wards if cuts were imposed . |
| 30 | As part of the deal he may be forced to sell assets worth $2 billion within the next three years . |