Example sentences of "he [modal v] [adv] [verb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Court of Appeal held that as the main purpose of Mr Stark 's contract had merely been the regular and efficient distribution of newspapers and since there was no evidence he should personally engage in distribution , it followed that the contract was not a ‘ contract personally to execute any work or labour ’ and therefore Mrs Gunning was not employed under such a contract . |
| 2 | In some councils , the pressures of party political control may be very considerable , but even so , he should always bear in mind this overall responsibility . |
| 3 | A solicitor will generally be free to decide for himself whether or not to accept instructions from a client , though he must always bear in mind the statutory obligation not to discriminate against potential clients on the grounds of race , colour , sex etc ( see Chapter 3 ) and he must refuse to act or to continue to act in any of the following circumstances : ( 1 ) where his client seeks to insist on the solicitor conducting his case in a way which would involve some breach of law or professional regulation ; ( 2 ) where the client 's affairs are outside his professional competence ; ( 3 ) if he suspects that the instructions purporting to come from his client do not in fact represent the client 's wishes ; ( 4 ) where the solicitor is unable to obtain confirmation from the client of instructions received from a third person ; ( 5 ) where there is or is likely to be some conflict of interest involving the solicitor himself , his client , other clients ( present , past or prospective ) , or the firm ; ( 6 ) where the solicitor may be a material and not merely formal witness in any proceedings ; ( 7 ) where another solicitor has already received instructions which have not been formally withdrawn . |
| 4 | She said , oh , he 'll probably get in touch with us . |
| 5 | A BA spokesman said he could not comment in detail until the report had been published . |
| 6 | ‘ This he could not do in folly , fool though the man can be , ’ said David , white to the lips as he watched his father 's face . |
| 7 | The vagaries of travel to Orkney , however , including the fact that the scheduled flights were all booked up with journalists , meant he could not arrive in time for the ten o'clock start . |
| 8 | What we would need to do is establish about Brown 's mental event and Green 's mental event that if either man also had the other 's experience , he could not distinguish in content between the two events . |
| 9 | George got financial support from Parliament for troops to defend his Electorate and they did well enough to maintain his position , but he could not establish in office the ministers he really wanted , who would have been committed to full-scale involvement in Germany , so that he had to put up with a government which was not completely devoted to fighting on the continent of Europe . |
| 10 | ‘ But Craig , you know Spencer has never been strong like you , he could not survive in prison , his health … ’ |
| 11 | She glanced at him in quick surprise , wondering what sort of favour he could possibly have in mind . |
| 12 | Manager Graeme Souness 's touchline ban meant he could only watch in anguish from the directors ' box . |
| 13 | Freud 's he just could n't speak Hebrew , he could only speak in Egyptian and so on and so on . |
| 14 | Laurence Hazell , defending , said he would not appear in court again . |
| 15 | In addition , he confirmed that the previously scheduled municipal and regional elections would go ahead on Nov. 8 , that elections for a new Congress would be held on Feb. 23 , 1993 , and that he would not remain in office beyond his term of 1995 , as set down in the 1979 Constitution . |
| 16 | erm , he would n't leave in case they would n't let him back in after modernizing . |
| 17 | He would n't he would n't take in ion an apprentice , it was too much . |
| 18 | He would usually appear in answer to the signal within a few minutes , for each sereno has a certain section to patrol . |
| 19 | After a series of meetings on July 15 both the National Front and the Janata Dal rejected Singh 's resignation offer and it was announced that he would reluctantly stay in office . |
| 20 | so he can either sleep in bed with his dad and J J or but they make him up a bed on that . |
| 21 | If the proxy was signed by the proxyholder himself , he can not vote in favour of any remuneration being paid to himself unless he produced written authorisation from his principal showing that he was entitled to sign the proxy . |
| 22 | Coleridge is not God for he can not perform this miracle and he can not drink in paradise . |
| 23 | If the visitor has power under the regulating documents to enter into the adjudication of the dispute ( i.e. , is acting within his jurisdiction in the narrow sense ) he can not err in law in reaching this decision since the general law is not the applicable law . |
| 24 | He can not plan in isolation . |
| 25 | He can simply state in evidence that he examined the licence and found it to be a current provisional . |
| 26 | Lamb is another minor casualty ; he is all right to bat , but he can only throw in underarm at the moment because of a niggle , which at first was thought to be a reaction to an inoculation , but is now believed to be a minor ligament problem . |