Example sentences of "may [be] [v-ing] [prep] the " 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 | Moreover , on some occasions ( and the present scenario could well be one ) the economic and social pressures may be pushing in the same direction as educational forces . |
| 6 | Staff in this store in Abingdon may be preaching to the converted . |
| 7 | ‘ To think I may be looking at the last of the Corbetts . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This isolation may be damaging to the manager . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ONE QUARTER of people living in Scotland may be living on the breadline according to figures released by the Labour party yesterday . |
| 15 | The other major story this month concerns the surveying of Loch Ness which titillatingly talks about the discovery of ‘ new species ’ Not necessarily Nessie however , but various small invertebrate worms which may be living in the extraordinarily deep loch . |
| 16 | Furthermore , we have not dealt clearly enough with the position of those students who may be living in the same property as their landlord . |
| 17 | The salesperson 's voice may be competing for the buyers ' attention with the flashing lights and noise of the equipment . |
| 18 | THE RESUMPTION of nuclear tests by France at the Mururoa atoll in the Pacific , last month , has renewed fears that plutonium and other pollutants from past tests may be spreading throughout the Polynesian islands . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A student who is forced to live out may be lodging with the old lady who seems to feature regularly in local government finance debates . |
| 22 | The decline in British hedgerows may be slowing for the first time this century , thanks to schemes to subsidise hedge planting . |
| 23 | Or they may be thinking about the unthinkable : independence for their tiny — but vastly more successful — China . |
| 24 | But if his practical measures are anything to go by , he may be thinking of the Libyan nation , for he discourages international marriage not only with English or American persons , but with Algerians , Egyptians and Palestinians . |
| 25 | When you ask about the dangers of using peppermint oil , you may be thinking of the concentrated essential oils used in aromatherapy ( the massaging of the skin with oils or creams containing plant extracts to relieve tension ) which are very potent and should not be used undiluted . |
| 26 | The fact that some believed that their teaching programme would not differ greatly even if such examinations were abolished seems to suggest that the GCSE syllabuses may be moving in the right direction , and present fewer conflicts with the way arts teachers normally operate . |
| 27 | However , as it was impossible to know whether it was blow one or blow ten ( the maximum number permitted at the moment ) which drew the blood on Roy 's Dream , it did serve to underline that though the Jockey Club may be moving in the right direction , its pace of reform is still too slow , leaving it too open to criticism . |
| 28 | The oil may be leaking from the following points . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |