Example sentences of "he [modal v] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " This Meeting having with much regret felt the Inconveniences arising to the Island for the Want of a Jail , wherein Disturbers of the Peace and other Transgressors of the Law might be Confined … are of the opinion that Shawfield should be apply 'd to , and these Grievances Stated , that he may of course procure the Sherriff 's warrant to have a Jail Established … " |
| 2 | He may for instance need to intervene at the modification stage of the structure plan , or it could be that he will have to deal with appeals against non-determination of applications made by prospective developers . |
| 3 | Then , whereas the concertos of Haydn represent a tiny and relatively insignificant fraction of his output , three of Mozart 's five violin concertos rank among the ‘ top ten ’ works in that repertory ; his magnificent Clarinet Concerto has never been surpassed ; his concertos for horn and flute are still among the finest works for their respective instruments ; while he may without exaggeration be said to have ‘ invented ’ the piano concerto as we know it , with his 23 original masterpieces in the genre . |
| 4 | He may from time to time change currencies and make gains on currencies . |
| 5 | ‘ ( 1 ) If any person who has paid tax charged under an assessment alleges that the assessment was excessive by reason of some error or mistake in a return , he may by notice in writing at any time not later than six years after the end of the year of assessment ( or , if the assessment is to corporation tax , the end of the accounting period ) in which the assessment was made , make a claim to the Board for relief . |
| 6 | But while Mr Smith campaigned well , he may in hindsight come to be blamed for Labour 's catastrophic defeat . |
| 7 | He may in fact really be a common thief . |
| 8 | And this will make Pooh 's inference from Eeyore 's sigh to what Eeyore believes safer than his inference from Rabbit 's words to what Rabbit believes : because that inference does depend on Rabbit 's wanting to tell Pooh the truth , whereas , as we 've remarked , he may in fact be lying . |
| 9 | Subject to the contrary agreement of the partners : ( 5 ) Every partner may take part in the management of the partnership business ( 7 ) No partner may be introduced as a partner without the consent of all existing partners ( 8 ) Any difference arising as to ordinary matters connected with the partnership business may be decided by a majority of the partners , but no change may be made in the nature of the partnership business without the consent of all existing partners It is obvious enough that if a partner is to be held responsible for the acts of his co-partners committed in the name of the firm he should in principle have : ( 1 ) unrestricted access to information about those acts ; ( 2 ) every right , indeed a duty , to assume personal responsibility ( equally with his co-partners ) for the conduct of the firm 's affairs ; and ( 3 ) the right ( by exercise of a veto ) to prevent any act for which he is unwilling to accept liability . |
| 10 | OK fair enough we disagree — perharps we could compromise that he should in future include both players at least in the squad if not the team . |
| 11 | If he can o if we can offset , if we can use all , if he 'll out time type of thing |
| 12 | he would perhaps have a " certain historical place in the literary history of our period " , and Herbert Read recalled how he might on occasions say , " Valery , Yeats and I … " . |
| 13 | Well he might for instance let us come over and and play with CorelDraw for an hour in one evening or something like that . |
| 14 | He might for example , have shown himself to be a ‘ little hard-nut ’ . |
| 15 | He might for example be led by ( 8 ) and ( 9 ) to suggest that white is ambiguous , for in ( 8 ) it seems to mean " only or wholly white " while in ( 9 ) it can only mean " partially white " : ( 8 ) The flag is white ( 9 ) The flag is white , red and blue The semanticist who takes the other tack , that natural language senses are protean , sloppy and variable , is hardly in a better position : how do hearers then know ( which they certainly do ) just which variable value of white is involved in ( 8 ) ? |
| 16 | Would he not read it that he might with impunity pursue her to her ruin ? |
| 17 | McNab was frowning now , poor man , and looking worried as well he might with Dr Dunstaple , transformed into Sir Isaac Newton , mounting such an impressive attack . |
| 18 | If he had a reading nearby he might of course be able to use her place and still claim hotel expenses , so it would not pay to fall out . |
| 19 | Since Pain was paying no attention to him , he decided that he might without impropriety ignore Pain . |
| 20 | Our prisoners are kept safe in the bilboes you were prescient to despatch , and I would have had this Dulay hanged but that he might in death prove a beacon to this same rabble and draw them on to greater reprisals against us , and we are still but few in number . |
| 21 | The quoted comments of the NCO are too short to indicate whether he might in fact justify his comments in this way , if he were personally accused of prejudice . |
| 22 | Twoflower hung on as best he could as Ninereeds swooped through a succession of caverns and soared around a spiral staircase that could easily have accommodated a retreating army . |
| 23 | Two days ago , after his daughter had told him her story , he had immediately contacted an enquiry agent whom he knew to be trustworthy and told him to find out all that he could about Dr Neil Cochrane , Sir Alastair Cochrane 's younger brother . |
| 24 | He also felt as secure as he could about Jacqui . |
| 25 | To-night he must make the shortest time of it he could to Strata Marcella , reassure himself that his father 's grave had not been desecrated , and warn the prior of Isambard 's malignant interest in it . |
| 26 | ‘ Reverend Father did all he could for Brother Hopkins . |
| 27 | It appears that William on his deathbed confessed that he had indulged in a fraud in getting his marriage to Adelizia nullified and at the eleventh hour did all that he could for Mabel 's succession as his heir . |
| 28 | He would spend as much time as he could at Hillmarden , but the strain was beginning to tell and , guiltily , he came to look on the nights when he was able to stay at the London flat as a blessed escape . |
| 29 | Indeed a modern zoologist would probably find that he could accept almost as much of Wilberforce 's argument as he could of Darwin 's . |
| 30 | He could of course have taken the easy option and given himself up , or laid up along the coast somewhere until the advancing Eighth Army caught up with him . |