Example sentences of "he [modal v] be [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teacher supplying the push may be helping to launch the career of a future gold medallist ; but equally he may be setting a youth off down a path to nowhere . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He may be given a seat on the tribal council , a position of power and prestige . |
| 4 | or , John ( fl. 1480–1500 ) , church composer and musician , Of his biography virtually nothing is known , and of his works few survive ; and yet , in the quality of his accomplishment he may be considered the greatest English composer of the period between John Dunstable ( d . |
| 5 | Mr Smith may be very depressed or he may be having a nap . |
| 6 | When Gandalf says to Frodo of his wound on Weathertop , ‘ your heart was not touched , and only your shoulder was pierced ; and that was because you resisted to the last ’ , he may be making a moral statement ( Frodo was rewarded ) or a practical one ( he dodged , called out , struck back , put off the Ringwraith 's aim ) . |
| 7 | The implication here is , that a man desists from killing animals out of fear that he may be killing a reincarnated soul , but while it may be possible to draw that conclusion , the principle of identity clearly goes much deeper than that , and in fact it could be said to contradict Tillich 's suggestion since that is no more than enlightened self-interest . |
| 8 | The former speaker , who will start his new duties during a lecture tour of America this summer , will start on a commission basis , but , if his efforts are successful , he may be offered a stake in a formal American venture . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ If Wright is guilty of hitting Howells like Davis hit me , then he should be given a nine-match ban , ’ he said . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | He should be given the opportunity on reasonable notice to inspect the same . |
| 19 | He felt he should be watching the road from behind the curtains , waiting for the badmen to arrive at High Noon , while in the background a voice intoned ‘ Do not forsake me , o my darling ’ . |
| 20 | I consider that this must also hold good for the right of establishment : in order for a national of a member state to be eligible to be regarded as exercising his right of establishment in another member state , it is not enough that he should be operating a fishing vessel registered in that state ; in addition , his activity must have other links with the territory of that State . |
| 21 | ‘ But he should be playing a bit forward — maybe he 's too concerned at the moment with his defensive duties . |
| 22 | If it 's been agreed that the treasurer spends £300 on publicity with £100 each for posters , leaflets and newspaper advertisements , he should be allowed the latitude to spend £150 on newspaper ads and £150 on leaflets if the publicity chairman thinks it necessary , and perhaps nothing on posters . |
| 23 | Mr Sweeney said it was decided by a vote that he should be told the meeting wanted him to reconsider his decision . |
| 24 | Jones received £1,600 for his role after his business advisers took their cut and Kinnear believes he should be fined the same amount , even though he has donated the fee to charity . |
| 25 | Order 10 , r1(4) states that this mode of service is effected by the defendant 's solicitor endorsing an acceptance on the writ , which means he must be sent the original as well as the service copy . |
| 26 | Robert Bossu had pursued the dispute here to Shrewsbury in search of diversion in a time of frustration and inaction , a pity he must be denied the best of the joke that was so much more than merely a joke . |
| 27 | I just ca n't buy it , I 'm sorry but if the author is going to put elements , a political element into it , he must be steering the audience towards something , because why bother putting all these points up , because everybody realises , what the cold war is |
| 28 | That fella up at Cecil 's , I should he must be getting a fortune . |
| 29 | 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 . " |
| 30 | Then , realising that sooner or later he must be given a reason for her presence , she repeated the one she had given Stella . |