Example sentences of "he [modal v] [be] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But ( if permission is not a pre-1968 Act one ) the trench digger may be brought up against a further provision : he may be served with a ‘ completion notice ’ . |
| 2 | Depending on the precise circumstances it may be found that Master Smith is the settlor so that if he has any interest in the trust he may be taxed upon the same under , for instance , TA 1988 , s683 , or alternatively , if he has no interest under the trust , any payment to his minor unmarried children could be taxable upon him ( Master Smith ) under TA 1988 , s663 . |
| 3 | For example , he may be faced with a frightening object which he does not wish to go past , and yet is being urged on by his rider . |
| 4 | And he may be marching into a trap with a right hand that needed surgery on it three fights ago to enable him to continue in boxing . |
| 5 | But if his practical measures are anything to go by , he may be thinking of the Libyan nation , for he discourages international marriage not only with English or American persons , but with Algerians , Egyptians and Palestinians . |
| 6 | Or he may be looking for a particular foodplant , or flower for nectar , searching for a special smell or a particular electromagnetic emission . |
| 7 | ‘ Any person who feels that he may be affected by the suspension should contact their local office . ’ |
| 8 | Narain Dutt Tewari of Uttar Pradesh could be a contender if he wins the state election being held alongside the parliamentary one ; but he may be beaten by the BJP . |
| 9 | In this he may be assisted by the opportunity to use truncation , alphabetical lists of terms showing word variants , and so on . |
| 10 | According to myth , Cronus was placed in the heavens , where he may be seen as the planet SATURN . |
| 11 | When a detained person is charged with or informed that he may be prosecuted for an offence he shall be cautioned in the terms of paragraph 10.4 above . |
| 12 | If at any time after a person has been charged with or informed he may be prosecuted for an offence a police officer wishes to bring to the notice of that person any written statement made by another person or the content of an interview with another person , he shall hand to that person a true copy of any such written statement or bring to his attention the content of the interview record , but shall say or do nothing to invite any reply or comment save to caution him in the terms of paragraph 10.4 above . |
| 13 | However , some parts of the lease will be construed against the tenent , since by a legal fiction he may be treated as a grantor . |
| 14 | If the patient reader is not surfeited by all this playing with numbers he may be entertained by a calculation of the " expenditure " of a vote originally given to Paisley with a second preference for Bill Craig and a third for some other candidate . |
| 15 | As the aggressor is propelled forward by his own weight , strength and momentum , he may be struck in the throat by any one of the basic hand techniques . |
| 16 | He may be sitting in a hospital bed somewhere in Italy at this very moment , wondering who he is and why he knows all these long words like hermeneutics . ’ |
| 17 | Instead you list some possible rewards he may be gaining from the phone calls : |
| 18 | He may be taken as an example of a first type of critic , the advocate . |
| 19 | ( Even when the head of the department is a barrister , he may be known as the department 's solicitor . ) |
| 20 | Worryingly for Eileen Delaney Pickle has vanished again today … raising fears that he may be caught in a trap once more . |
| 21 | If an F-type candidate is identified in time by his teacher , he may be entered for an F-type examination and may thus at least be saved from getting a G grade or worse . |
| 22 | Detectives are hoping that he may be trapped through a gold bracelet found at the scene of his latest crime . |
| 23 | Finally , the 1987 Act provides that where a minor has acquired property under a contract which is unenforceable against him , or which he has repudiated on the grounds of minority , he may be required by the court , when it thinks it ‘ just and equitable ’ to do so , to return the property , or else property representing that which he has acquired ( without prejudice to any other remedy available to the plaintiff ) . |
| 24 | If a Netter Mob has a Boss he may be armed with a club at a cost of +1 point . |
| 25 | At last he may be turning into a credible historical figure , capable of being understood , even admired . |
| 26 | Unless the buyer can show that there was a latent defect present in the goods at the time of delivery which later became manifest ( and hence that the goods could not have been of merchantable quality at the time of delivery ) he may be left with no remedy . |
| 27 | Under this section he may be ordered by the licensing board to make alterations , and failure to comply with such an order is an offence . |
| 28 | About the year 944/1537–8 , the two kazaskers , Ebussu'ud Efendi and Civizade , the latter a teacher of Molla Bostan 's , spoke well of him in the presence of Sultan Suleyman ; and as a result of their intercession , and of the sultan 's interest in a monograph that Molla Bostan had recently written , it was decreed that he should be appointed to a medrese . |
| 29 | He should be sent on a PR course . |
| 30 | Pascoe is back on Wearside after a four-month loan spell with Swansea and Roker No 2 Ferguson said : ‘ He should be bashing on the door to get into this side . |