Example sentences of "may [be] [v-ing] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who give the impression that they are fishing for information ; they may be looking for a recommendation for somebody else who may be suitable to approach . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | However , they also suggest that while this study can be used to support the view that university residence tends to reduce the probability of non-completion , the possibility that the residence factor may be acting as a proxy for other university characteristics , can not be dismissed ) . |
| 4 | This link with the President has given rise to speculation that Mr Morrison may be acting as a pathfinder to the appointment of a special envoy . |
| 5 | I may be getting on a bit but I still know a thing or two . ’ |
| 6 | It is not reasonable to expect a tenant to have to accept construction works which may differ from those in the building documents and accordingly be less beneficial to the tenant than it may be expecting as a result of what the surveyors may be perceived to notice on an inspection . |
| 7 | Earlier this morning Home Office forensic experts were called in as the police believed they may be dealing with a murder investigation . |
| 8 | Think about it : if marriage is a partnership , the fact that one may be functioning in a responsibility that provides the income does not entitle that partner to sole ownership . |
| 9 | Granted you may be advertising to a sector of the market which does not have a university degree or even two GCSEs , you still have to recognize that few of them are illiterate morons . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | And if you 're working on a spreadsheet , you may be working on a spreadsheet during the day , start in the morning , you 're working several hours , you may find yourself running low of memory , then the memory light comes on or you get a memory full up message at some stage , and you think oh that 's not fair , because I have n't made the spreadsheet any bigger . |
| 12 | Or she may be working on a rabbit and be boxed in in one direction while another ferret has backed one or more rabbits behind her . |
| 13 | @FIRSTPARA = Black children acquiring Creole may be going through a process not of second language acquisition but of new dialect acquisition . |
| 14 | Moreton councillor Ken Hemsley said : ‘ I am just concerned that people answering 999 calls may not understand a local dialect and they may be talking about a place which the person they are speaking to will never have heard of . |
| 15 | If a dog has a good appetite but seems to be losing weight , it may be suffering from a condition known as pancreatic insufficiency . |
| 16 | The US Federal Trade Commission 's investigation of Microsoft Corp has had an air of unreality about it , with few people imagining that it will come to anything very much or lead to any significant change in the market , but now that the thing may be coming to a climax , what are the possible outcomes ? |
| 17 | Since the structures adduced to support Cable 's arguments seem sound , we may be coming to a position where the study of prosody has mentalistic goals . |
| 18 | It is in no way intended to replace any treatment you may be having from a doctor , consultant or practitioner . |
| 19 | But at least I 'm staying in Bushmills , so I may be diving into a vat before the week 's out . ’ |