Example sentences of "that he [modal v] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 In addition the chargee is not obliged to refrain from exercising his rights merely because by doing so he could avoid loss to the company nor does failure to exercise them when the security is declining in value constitute a breach of any duty that he may owe to the company .
2 Lawyers said she did not have a good relationship with the father and the prospect that he may return to the family home prompted her action under the 1989 Children Act .
3 We have also seen that manufacturer or distributor who does not supply the goods directly to the consumer can not ( e.g. in a guarantee document ) exclude any liability for negligence that he may have towards the consumer — see section 5 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act ( paragraph 9–03 above ) .
4 Warrants , addressed to the High Court tipstaff or the county court registrar and bailiff , can be issued to arrest a bankrupt where there are reasonable grounds for believing that he may abscond with a view to avoiding or delaying payment of his debts or his appearance to a petition or to avoiding , delaying or disrupting any proceedings against him or any examination of his affairs ( s 364(1) and r 7.21 ) .
5 said : ‘ This court has on numerous occasions held that the effect of Ord. 29 , r. 1(5) of the County Court Rules 1981 is that the contemnor must be personally served with a properly drafted notice which recites in clear and unambiguous detail the following : ( 1 ) the order of the court or undertaking given to the court in respect of which he has been found in breach ; ( 2 ) the respects in which it is alleged that he has been in breach ; ( 3 ) the findings of the judge as to the alleged breaches ; ( 4 ) the period of committal to which he has been sentenced and ( 5 ) that he may apply to the court to purge his contempt and seek his release .
6 he knows or has reasonable grounds to believe that the ( non-visitor ) is in the vicinity of the danger concerned or that he may come into the vicinity of the danger ( in either case , whether the ( non-visitor ) has lawful authority for being in that vicinity or not ) ; and
7 It is necessary to apply s. 1(3) which states : An occupier of premises owes a duty to another ( not being his visitor ) in respect of any such risk as is referred to in subsection ( 1 ) if — ( a ) he is aware of the danger or has reasonable grounds to believe it exists ; ( b ) he knows or has reasonable grounds to believe that the other is in the vicinity of the danger concerned or that he may come into the vicinity of the danger ( in either case whether the other has lawful authority for being in that vicinity or not ) ; and ( c ) the risk is one against which , in all the circumstances of the case , he may reasonably be expected to offer the other some protection .
8 Neither the campaign nor the result purged him or his family of a settled if unenthusiastic feeling that he ought to go into the House of Commons .
9 If Labour loses the general election , he wrote on Sunday , Neil Kinnock has already indicated that he 'll retire to the leek trenches of Islwyn .
10 The girl is said not have a good relationship with her father and the prospect that he might return to the family home , after a period of estrangement from his wife , prompted her action under the 1989 Children Act .
11 The girl is said to have a poor relationship with her father and the prospect that he might return to the family home , after a period of estrangement from his wife , prompted her action under the 1989 Children Act .
12 I paid her for the call , and stayed chatting for a while , answering her queries about the cottage and then telling her of my brother 's expected arrival , and the possibility that he might telephone with a message .
13 For a start the old problem of slow play reared its ugly head once more , causing one member of the field to suggest that he might switch to a more active sport like angling .
14 The Divisional Court ordered that the applicant 's motion be allowed for a declaration that before asking questions relating to an offence with which a person under investigation had been charged the Director of the Serious Fraud Office had to inform that person that he was not obliged to answer such questions but that , if they were answered , what was said might only be used in evidence against that person where he was charged with knowingly or recklessly making a false or misleading statement or where the answer was inconsistent with any evidence that he might give at a later criminal trial .
15 He had never been in a wood in his life ; but he was sharp enough to know that he might hide in a bush , or swarm up a tree … ‘ . )
16 Only when Harry warned her that he might collide with a passing vehicle if she continued to do that , did she finally desist .
17 As a member of the Secret Committee of 1857 Rostovtsev had given no indication that he might turn into a keen reformer .
18 If matters are simplified for him by assuming that he can move only north , south , east or west , and excluding the possibility that he might collapse on the spot , can you visualize the path he would follow ?
19 That may change if he continues to draw the kind of encouragement which has poured in since he announced in February that he might run for the White House .
20 ‘ But one of the leading consultants said his calcium levels were too high and there was a danger that he might slip into a coma .
21 There were no villages , no farms in sight as he slowed down , afraid that he might drive past the narrow track leading to the abandoned church and its separate bell tower .
22 In the same month they travelled to Bermuda for six weeks so that he might convalesce in the warmth : he responded well , and was walking more easily .
23 The 800m world record holder , who is currently training between 50 and 60 miles a week , was quick to play down any suggestion that he would finish among the top runners in the 11th London Marathon .
24 It became inevitable that he would move to a bigger club .
25 Here too the legatee would be asked to give a guarantee that he would make over the property as requested .
26 During the session Sir John May , the inquiry chairman , announced that he would sit at the inquiry with three lay assessors , and that the government had agreed to the granting of immunity from prosecution to witnesses .
27 Indeed I think that the the the present secretary of state for whom I have great respect and regard , I think he would be very well advised to think again , because I think that the temporary derision that he would meet in the House of Commons would be nothing as compared with the the er the wounding that he will sustain later if and when things go wrong with these proposals .
28 But it was inevitable that he would return to the game .
29 But after graduating he joined rival firm Scott Oswald to complete his formal accountancy training , although the understanding was that he would return to the family fold once he had qualified with the opposition , which he did in 1985 .
30 Therefore , an individual can be guilty of theft even though he had £1,000 in his purse and said on arrest that he would pay for the items shoplifted .
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