Example sentences of "may be on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The General Board shall have power to accept or refuse the application and , if it accepts it , to determine , in consultation with the professor concerned , the number of students whose names may be on the register at any one time and the method of their selection . |
| 2 | It is always a lie and never the truth , ’ Questionable though that judgement may be on the aphorism in general , it does seem to me to catch the half-formed nature of this observation — or perhaps , better speaking , its lack of a frame . |
| 3 | A decision on the recognition of any of the republics may be on the agenda , but that decision should be made collectively and advisedly . |
| 4 | I was especially conscious that any resistance there may be on the part of Mrs Clements , or the two girls , to the taking on of duties beyond their traditional boundaries would be compounded by any notion that their workloads had greatly increased . |
| 5 | Initiating pupils into theology is an essential part of RE , so that they may be on the wavelength of the major religions and be able — if they wish — to use their language and outlooks to make sense of their own personal experience . |
| 6 | The writing may be on the wall for the established system . |
| 7 | In other words , the hegemony of the social representation of science can not possibly be total , and there is even evidence that it may be on the wane . |
| 8 | Although his career may be on the wane , he should still prove a useful asset to Ballymena , who just pipped top Junior side Coleraine for the veteran 's services . |
| 9 | And if that seems an unfair comparison , think of Middlesbrough ICI 's works and gas storage towers may be on the horizon but at least there is Victoria Park with its lawns and flower beds in front of the town hall , and grassland in front of the new court complex . |
| 10 | Election Focus:A Hung Parliament : Britain may be on the verge of a hung Parliament — and a dramatic change in the political landscape . |
| 11 | His call coincided , however , with the mobilisation in Serbia of reservists , suggesting that the Yugoslav army may be on the verge of intervention in the newly independent Bosnia . |
| 12 | Moreover , suspicion may grow in agents ' minds during t - 1 that the government may be on the verge of an about turn on employment policy . |
| 13 | Zimbabwe may be on the verge of abandoning its controversial policy of treating wildlife as a valuable resource , which has led the country to lobby for a revival of the ivory trade and has attracted criticism from conservationists . |
| 14 | Five weeks from the end of the cricket season ; Warwickshire may be on the verge of their first County Championship title for eighteen years . |
| 15 | The project looks at how risk and uncertainty are handled by the decision makers concerned and what the impact may be on the choices made . |
| 16 | Other government ministers may be on the way out . |
| 17 | Indurain looked the master of his former captain , Pedro Delgado , who won the Tour in 1988 , faltered since that victory but may be on the way back to the top . |
| 18 | MOUTHFULS of metal may be on the way out . |
| 19 | START spreading the news — a little Cruiser may be on the way . |
| 20 | Changes may be on the way however . |
| 21 | ( Incidentally , the time-honoured use of faecal/urine egg counts to assess infection intensities may be on the way out ; many groups are now planning to use circulating adult antigen to provide specific information on worm burdens . ) |
| 22 | A more radical change may be on the way : a report by the UK Institute of Health Services Management concludes that ‘ General taxation must be reconsidered as the major funding of the National Health Service if it continues to fail to deliver adequate levels of resources ’ . |
| 23 | The parents of a young girl who died after being treated with steroids have welcomed the news that fresh warnings about the drug 's side effects may be on the way . |
| 24 | Investing in many different bond markets around the world increases the investment potential because when one market is going down another may be on the way up . |
| 25 | ‘ You may be on the level about having done a runner , or maybe not . |
| 26 | These two images , however irreconcilable they may be on the surface , are , nonetheless , merely variants of a single conception of human beings and human behaviour , exemplars of a paradigm within which the character of human relations is seen not as growing out of human purposes and choices , but as determined by some natural state of human beings . |
| 27 | While it published scorching critiques of the diplomacy that had led Britain into war , MacDonald insisted that ‘ whatever our views may be on the origins of the war , we must go through with it . ’ |
| 28 | And here I must agree that I am beginning to fear that we may be on the edge of an age of the worst kind of mass production . |
| 29 | Prospectuses issued by both power companies have admitted that environmental costs may be on the rise , but no figures have been given . |
| 30 | Manufacturing and service companies in the Midlands believe they may be on the brink of an economic turnaround . |