Example sentences of "he [modal v] be given " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the patient 's foot tends to twist as he stands on it , he may be given a special ankle support to help hold it comfortably in position . |
| 2 | He may be given a seat on the tribal council , a position of power and prestige . |
| 3 | Ringa Hustle raced home a 5-2 winner … he may be given one more race in Ireland before they retire him to stud … |
| 4 | In the 1965 Stormont general election Claude Wilton of the Ulster Liberal Party had polled 47 per cent , and some members of the NILP thought that he should be given a clear run in the 1968 by-election , in the hope of defeating the Unionist candidate . |
| 5 | He is not committed , by his education , to rejecting or despising the community in which he was brought up ; but he should be given the means in some sense to detach himself from it . |
| 6 | But Eubank is keen to make Eubank v Benn II a reality next summer and insisted last night : ‘ Never mind that , Nigel deserves his million and he should be given the chance to redeem himself against me . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ If Wright is guilty of hitting Howells like Davis hit me , then he should be given a nine-match ban , ’ he said . |
| 8 | In 1790 , when the county of Cromarty was being contested , one of the freeholders serving in the army demanded , as the price of his support for the candidate favoured by Henry Dundas , that he should be given a company in a regiment stationed in Britain . |
| 9 | From whatever angle you look things are wrong : even if Froggy had n't been murdered , it was unheard of that he should be given so much money up front to caddie for Harley . |
| 10 | I also conclude that , to enable him to make such representations , he should be given such relevant information as he does not already have . |
| 11 | This may in certain cases require not only that the applicant be informed of the evidence , but that he should be given a sufficient opportunity to deal with it . |
| 12 | If someone is to be tried for matters as serious as those for which Mr. Beck was tried and to receive the condign punishment that Mr. Beck received , it is essential that he should have a fair trial and that he should be given every opportunity to deploy his defence . |
| 13 | He may , however , begin to think that , being judged capable of running his own show , he should be given a department of his own . |
| 14 | If the matter is to be discussed with the miscreant partner at all he should be given a genuine opportunity to put his case to all the other partners . |
| 15 | He should be given the opportunity on reasonable notice to inspect the same . |
| 16 | Ideally , at this late stage , he should be given it intravenously , but there was no intravenous here . |
| 17 | He must know what evidence has been given and what statements have been made affecting him , and then he must be given a fair opportunity to correct or contradict them . " |
| 18 | Then , realising that sooner or later he must be given a reason for her presence , she repeated the one she had given Stella . |
| 19 | He 'll be given access to Martin , I should think . |
| 20 | Graham Taylor is hoping that Santa wo n't give away any goals to England 's World Cup opponents — or he might be given the sack . |
| 21 | Ellwood crouched down alongside the priest and looked this way and that , as if he might be given some notion of what to do next . |
| 22 | The personality of the present commander , L Detachment S.A.S. Brigade , is such that he could be given command of the whole force with appropriate rank . |
| 23 | She was tall and had a slender enough waist for him to have spanned it with his hands , and he was amazed at how strongly he wished he could be given the chance . |
| 24 | The fact that a sociologist was witnessing the interviews make it all the more certain they would be conducted with scrupulous care , but there was no way he would be given access to the extra-legal deals which may well have gone on outside the interview room or later during a prison visit for ‘ write-offs ’ . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It was also arranged that he would be given accurate intelligence by radio on a regular basis . |
| 27 | All Otis could do now was wait to see how much compensation he would be given . |
| 28 | Officers failed to tell Simon Kinnersley , 42 , that he would be given a sterile mouthpiece which had been sealed to blow into . |
| 29 | In the resultant Postlethwait audio-tutorial laboratory , open from around 7.00 a.m. to 11.30 pm. , the student could come at a time of his own choosing ; at the entrance he would receive a descriptive hand-out explaining what books , notes , equipment would be necessary to bring along ; once inside he would be given a botanical specimen and would enter a pleasant area equipped with a multiplicity of booths or carrels . |
| 30 | He was n't sure that he would be given a chance to hold on to his wife . |