Example sentences of "he [vb mod] be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the hon. Gentleman waits for a few days , he may be made aware of developments emanating from a source not far from me now which may interest him and which may deal with that point . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Charlie had just landed his 100th winner of the calendar year — the first jockey to do so — and the crowd were determined that he should be made aware quickly and with as much emphasis as possible , how they felt about him . |
| 4 | He died in September 1659 and was buried in Westminster Abbey ; in his will he had requested that he should be buried near to Agarde 's monument there . |
| 5 | If the patient is safe sitting up , he should be left alone for privacy while he is passing urine or faeces , and he should have a bell to summon help , or perhaps a stick with which to knock on the wall or floor . |
| 6 | His target , when he should be considered fit and ready , was the European centre of SIS operations , a house in The Hague disguised as the ‘ Continental Trading Corporation ’ , where he was to join the staff of agents run by Major H. R. Stevens and his deputy , Captain S. Payne Best . |
| 7 | ‘ Remember he 's stuck in the refridgeration unit and he 'll be frozen solid if we do n't get him out of there soon . ’ |
| 8 | He 'll be burned alive . ’ |
| 9 | But did , did you hear he might be made redundant ? |
| 10 | Cadfael took the key from the porter , who hovered with slightly anxious sympathy , and was relieved to see a delinquent for whom he might be held responsible returning docilely to his prison . |
| 11 | Oh , I know that he would never have touched anything in the least underhand , but he is a director of the company , and he might be held responsible for things that were done without his knowledge . |
| 12 | If the doctor 's duty is a matter of law , a court could restrain a doctor from continuing such treatment , and he could be held liable to pay damages for any distress or increased discomfort the patient suffered as a consequence , in that his conduct would amount to negligence . |
| 13 | The jury were directed by the trial judge that they could find him guilty only as actor , whereas the true position was that he could be found guilty either as actor or on the basis of art and part . |
| 14 | Is there a danger he could be considered mad ? |
| 15 | ‘ If one of those human soldiers were to get as much as a good whiff of this hot pot of mine , well like as not he 'd be knocked clean off his feet , and should he , by some act of unforgivable negligence on our part , actually eat some — well , I for one would n't like to be held responsible . ’ |
| 16 | Mr Stacey was notified in February 1984 that he would be made redundant the following May . |
| 17 | After this , he resigned himself more or less to an athletics-oriented existence , taking up the offer of a job in a sports equipment shop , where he would be granted ample time off to compete in meetings and train regularly . |
| 18 | Once his leg healed , Lucien quickly found that he would be kept busy . |
| 19 | By the end of our discussion , however , he was still prepared to go on thinking about an editorial involvement — I ( mis ? ) led him to believe the amount of work could be contained and he would be given good backing by OUP . |
| 20 | It was also arranged that he would be given accurate intelligence by radio on a regular basis . |
| 21 | He exuded sympathy and concern , urged Amiss to take as much time off as he felt necessary , assured him he would be given sick pay and that his job would be secure , and only after a long argument agreed very reluctantly that he could come back on duty the following day . |
| 22 | Later on the same page he makes this challenging statement ‘ If any of us actually had the power to release souls from purgatory and refused to exercise that power except in return for a payment of money he would be considered cruel and unchristian — which indeed he would be . ’ |
| 23 | That way , he would be left alone without worrying why no one was asking him for an autograph . |
| 24 | Perhaps they were wrong ; perhaps the spoke of the wheel on which he was clinging would never be swung over so hard by Lady Fortune that he would be prised loose and fall , limbs sprawling , like the figures on the rose window of the cathedral , while others — Tommaso , where was Tommaso now ? — rose up to be garlanded at chance 's whim . |
| 25 | In another it was said that the legitimate expectation of a prisoner that he would be allowed maximum parole if no disciplinary award of forfeiture of remission of sentence had been made against him , gave him sufficient interest to challenge the award . |
| 26 | The patient may feel embarrassed at first when he goes to places he does not know , but he will be made welcome if the restaurateur knows what to expect . |
| 27 | ‘ But he will be given maximum medical support treatment and if his condition improves , the transplant operation will be considered again . ’ |
| 28 | But he will be given free reign over the selection and training of his team . |
| 29 | The basic situation which I contemplate is a patient in hospital refusing all but nursing attendance , or the patient at home refusing all care , even if it means that he will be left alone . |
| 30 | The debtor may then ( with the court 's approval ) make a composition or scheme of arrangement with his creditors ; but if this is not done he will be adjudicated bankrupt , and the whole of his property ( not including property of which he is himself a trustee , or — up to the value of £250 — the tools of his trade and the necessary clothing and bedding of himself and his family ) will vest in the ‘ official receiver ’ ( a public officer ) or some other trustee , and become divisible among his creditors who prove their debts . |