Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's been a sharp decline in Britain 's industrial and manufacturing output raising fears among economists that the recession may be deepening . |
| 2 | The recession may be biting in our own larders . |
| 3 | The recession may be hurting many businesses , but there 's one craftsman who ca n't keep up with demand . |
| 4 | Recession may be burying the major continental economies , with the likelihood that things will get much worse before they start to get better , but the European personal computer market continued to prosper in the first quarter , the Wall Street Journal reports . |
| 5 | Parents believe the recession may be having an effect on some people 's ability to pay the £10,000 a year fees , but the college needs the money . |
| 6 | The centre says the recession may be forcing more people to abandon their pets . |
| 7 | A dementia sufferer may be living in substandard accommodation . |
| 8 | Such an experience may be demoralising if you 're unlucky to get caught up in the tangle . |
| 9 | That line of analysis tends to indicate that when one is interpreting s740(3) and the meaning of the expression " relevant income " ( meaning " income which can directly or indirectly be used for providing a benefit for an individual or for enabling a benefit to be provided for him " ) the taxpayer may be having the benefit of a slightly generous interpretation if the Revenue permit , in any year in which income arises , the amount of the relevant income in that year to be reduced by the amount of expenditure incurred in that year . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , for two reasons , the job of the nuclear thief or illicit buyer may be getting significantly easier . |
| 11 | The buyer may be feigning disinterest , and throughout a sales interview several peaks may be expected to occur . |
| 12 | If the photography is in black and white the photographer may be working with reels of film rather than with plates , in which case he will be able to take many more shots without inflating the price too much . |
| 13 | Mental work such as reading is best undertaken in silence ; modestly loud extraneous noise may be distracting , even though the person may be trying to ignore it . |
| 14 | ‘ The day we hold off because some geezer may be watching is the day we should change our line of business . |
| 15 | The forces of change may be moving rapidly but the corporate response is slower , says Collis . |
| 16 | Of course , both external and internal factors of this kind may be operating . |
| 17 | @FIRSTPARA = Black children acquiring Creole may be going through a process not of second language acquisition but of new dialect acquisition . |
| 18 | There may be numerous opportunities for health teaching in the course of a nurse/patient relationship ; on the other hand , the patient/client may be coping adequately , and therein lies a skilled nursing judgement knowing when to withdraw . |
| 19 | Second , the randomizing algorithm may be becoming less useful due to some pattern in new record keys . |
| 20 | A survey by Gallup and Business Strategies , an economic consultancy , suggested that the tide may be turning , with consumer confidence last month at its highest level for two years , although the authors said there was no sign of the ‘ feel-good ’ factor in replies to questions . |
| 21 | WHILE the Ministry of Defence may be looking at major cut-backs in all three forces , the RAF Museum ( RAFM ) has announced its own form of Options for Change that will see a welcome major change in the aircraft exhibits at Hendon . |
| 22 | ‘ It is wonderful to think that someone in a government ministry may be paying attention and trying to help us , ’ he said last night . |
| 23 | The subtle , instinctive mind pattern of an insect may be looking for the particular infrared , pheromone emission which signifies the presence of his lady-love . |
| 24 | Bethpage , New York-based Grumman Corp may be looking for computer-related acquisitions , but in the meantime , it is to use up some of its cash pile by spending up to $100m buying in its own shares . |
| 25 | Microsoft Corp may be planning to port NT to the PowerPC like Computer Reseller News suggested last week but in sounding out the Motorola people on the subject it did n't seem like anything was imminent — and they want all the key operating systems on the thing . |
| 26 | Sources believe Microsoft Corp may be preparing to take Sun Microsystems Inc to court over WABI , the Windows-on-Solaris software that SunSoft Inc is expected to bundle with x86 , the new Solaris-on-Intel operating system . |
| 27 | Microsoft Corp may be preparing to take Sun Microsystems Inc to court over the WABI Windows Applications Binary Interface that SunSoft Inc is expected to bundle with Solaris x86 , the new Solaris-on-iAPX-86 operating system , sources tell our sister paper Unigram.X . |
| 28 | In a sign that the rebound may be running out of steam , the Fed disclosed last night that the widely watched M2 measure of money supply , a barometer of economic activity , plummeted $7.1 billion in the week ending March . |
| 29 | Alternatively , an SBU may be following a product-differentiation policy , in which case , depending on the type of industry , progress in product development and field tests , success in taking out patents , the results of early market-research tests and various other indicators provide early signals of whether the investment policy is likely to be successful . |
| 30 | I think the case may be breaking at last . ’ |