Example sentences of "he [modal v] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 2 ) The said duty is owed if the landlord knows ( whether as the result of being notified by the tenant or otherwise ) or if he ought in all the circumstances to have known of the relevant defect . |
| 2 | He may with good reason be regarded as the first of that long line of professional civil servants who did more than any others to make and destroy the medieval Church : they were professional administrators , equipped to forward the interests of government not by main force but by negotiation amidst the intricate issues of law and theology ; men of international standing , retaining the respect of their opponents , and not too hatefully or too personally involved in the cause which they were required to maintain . |
| 3 | On this basis he may by all means erect a system of imperatives logically interrelated with statements of objective fact , and elaborate it to any degree of complexity he pleases , but to confirm or correct it he has always to return to subjectivity , to his own spontaneity in the concrete situation . |
| 4 | By a respondent 's notice the bank notified its intention of contending that the judge 's decision should be affirmed on the additional ground that he should in any event have exercised his discretion under rule 12.12 and set aside the registrar 's order on the ground that it was not a proper case for service of the originating application out of the jurisdiction ; and in particular because ( i ) the bank had at all relevant times no presence in , and/or sufficient connection with , England and Wales ; and/or ( ii ) the judge should have applied and/or had regard to the provisions of R.S.C. , Ord. 11 and , had he done so , should have concluded that the claims raised did not fall within the ambit of the order and that leave to serve out should thus be refused . |
| 5 | On 3 October ‘ the King told the Prime Minister that he must at all costs find the solution himself , and His Majesty would refuse to accept his resignation . |
| 6 | As a simple , untutored Galilean fisherman and bully , he must at first have taken Jesus 's statements quite literally . |
| 7 | From this meeting they sent back Curzon with a formal resolution , urging Asquith 's immediate resignation , and saying that he must in any event accept and publish theirs . |
| 8 | Whether the payment is made within or after fourteen days of service , if the plaintiff elects to accept the sum he must within 21 days after receipt by him of the notice of payment into court or , if the notice is received less than three days before the return day , then before the hearing of the action begins , give notice of his acceptance to the court and to every other party ( Ord 11 , r 3(1) ) . |
| 9 | Although he might on one level enjoy his fame and success , his own tendency to withdraw from the world turned such fame into a kind of game which he was happy to play but which he did not take altogether seriously . |
| 10 | Again , when the Irishman Scotus Eriugena , one of the two finest minds of the ninth century ( the other was Gottschalk , close student of Augustine 's works and initiator of the controversy on predestination ) , translated from Greek into Latin the Heavenly Hierarchy of Pseudo-Denis ( c .860 ) , he might at first sight have been engaged in something purely academic . |
| 11 | McLeish , who had a built-in prejudice , well supported by experience , against statements incorporating an appeal to belief , noted dourly that he might at some later stage need to get closer to Yeo Davis 's accounts . |
| 12 | She pushed the Valium aside , observing that she did prefer not to take drugs , a reaction so typical of her age and class that McLeish decided he might after all be able to conduct a useful interview . |
| 13 | Despite its lack of amenities , he might in any case have preferred it to Peabody accommodation , with its ban upon wallpaper and its walls bare of plaster to prevent vermin . |
| 14 | He was an exception among the British dancers in wanting to find our as much as he could about American ballet teachers . |
| 15 | We hammered on the door for the gaoler and returned to the main gates of the prison where Benjamin left a coin and instructed the sadistic bastard to do what he could for poor Taplow . |
| 16 | I 've never seen anybody who could play like he could at that age . |
| 17 | He has got tremendous vision and in midfield he can express himself that bit more than he could at right back . |
| 18 | The agreement provided that the piano would become the property of the customer on payment of all the instalments of rent but that he could at any time before then terminate the hiring by returning the piano to the dealer . |
| 19 | He could at any time have obtained for himself the beneficial enjoyment of the whole income . |
| 20 | It was n't , however , until summer had faded that he could at last feel he was his own man again and was able to address himself to the present . |
| 21 | So in 1950 the American , Hillary Waugh , impressed by a volume of real murder cases he had picked up , not so much because of the horrific details the author had dwelt on as by the tone of authenticity that seemed to arise naturally from the accounts of the cases , decided to write a fictional crime story catching as much as he could of this real-life feel . |
| 22 | By contrast , if the forged words were not in the documents , he could with pardonable exaggeration use the words ultimum quasi robur . |
| 23 | James had to take what comfort he could from such events , for with the failure of ‘ The Fifteen ’ his prestige in Europe had been greatly diminished , and the Duke of Orleans even threatened to arrest him if he did not leave France . |
| 24 | An early decision to submit himself to re-election was probably his only chance of holding on , though I doubted if he could in any circumstances . |
| 25 | He emerges as a man with a big heart and a clever mind who did the best he could in difficult circumstances . |
| 26 | By the time Kádár resigned in 1988 , he had come to be thought of as a kind of benign pragmatist , who had done what he could in difficult circumstances . |
| 27 | I would n't of thought he 'd of worried too much about the outside . |
| 28 | As he would for any of his ponies , thought Perdita bitterly . |
| 29 | Eyes bulging from a purple , blue-lipped face , he would at last draw in a tortuous gasp of air and the whole process would begin again . |
| 30 | On April 19 Verdiger announced that he would after all support Labour , but on April 22 Shas , the ultra-orthodox party which had played a major role in the collapse of the coalition in March by abstaining in a vote of no-confidence , announced its absolute support for Likud . |