Example sentences of "may be [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If anything , the most common strategy by far seems to be to abandon the thematic organization of the source text in favour of adhering to whatever word-order principles may be operating in the target language . |
| 2 | You may be fumbling in the dark — both literally and metaphorically -but you might as well know what it is you might find ! |
| 3 | One possibility that 's emerged from that research , is that mercury vapour from gold burning may be combining with the ash and the other products of combustion the forest , to produce an even more toxic ingredient in a lethal brew . |
| 4 | Planners will need to investigate and attempt to quantify the numbers of dementia sufferers they may be considering within the planning period . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And here for example you might have the recreational mind , healthy mind and body the existential , the person who as much as anything may be looking for an experience based on meditation , er religion , this sort of thing . |
| 7 | The older person may be looking to the therapist or social worker to replace some earlier loss , such as a daughter , son , sibling or spouse , and will appreciate a sharing of feeling or experience much more . |
| 8 | While the students compete for honours within their class , the teacher may be looking to the class as a whole , competing with other teachers ' classes , to bring him esteem and promotion . |
| 9 | What Gandhi may be suggesting by the statement that the road one takes is unimportant provided the goal is achieved is that too much importance can be attached to particular religions , especially when it might result in exclusivist claims being made on behalf of those religions . |
| 10 | This isolation may be damaging to the manager . |
| 11 | Here , anything that threatens the superego tends to be destructive ; and we can readily see that the externalization of conflict , although defensive for the ego , may be damaging for the culture because the effect of the externalization is to make the culture the locus of the conflict . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ONE QUARTER of people living in Scotland may be living on the breadline according to figures released by the Labour party yesterday . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The critic here may be acting as an exhibition organiser or co-ordinator , critical decisions being mainly limited to selection . |
| 17 | A body may be acting within the scope of its authority at the outset but may , by the way it goes about taking the decision , go outside the four corners of the Act . |
| 18 | Cars , cameras , motorbikes and hi-fis may be getting to the stage where only the keenest enthusiast can tell them apart , but tractors remain mercifully different from each other . |
| 19 | I may be getting on a bit but I still know a thing or two . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Earlier this morning Home Office forensic experts were called in as the police believed they may be dealing with a murder investigation . |
| 22 | We may be dealing with an energy currently unknown to science , but it made sense to start by monitoring known energies . |
| 23 | BASCELT ( British Association of State Colleges in English Language Teaching ) members may be benefiting at the expense of Arels schools , and the UK may be losing out to the US and other Anglophone countries when it comes to perceived value for money . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The table shows that Britain 's banking system is not unduly burdened with branches compared with others ( though all may be labouring under the legacy of the expansionary 1980s ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Anglicanism , for example , may be surviving in the countryside of Hertfordshire , and indeed is truly embedded there , but she is adrift in the East End of London ( Ahern and Davie 1987 ) . |
| 28 | Whatever may be happening to the rest of the economy , litigation is booming and so , apparently , is fraud . |
| 29 | In any other sphere of life , when the demand for your product collapses for reasons entirely beyond your control , you do n't try to drum up new custom , you wind the business down and go into something more profitable ’ ‘ But there is a disturbing feeling about that something irreversible may be happening in the world and it is not to Britain 's advantage . |
| 30 | As the 10% not recovered would now be worth £2½ million , a fortune in diamonds may be lying under the tarmac of Prestwick Airport 's main runway . |