Example sentences of "may be on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sotheby 's have estimated its value at $10m-$14m , but this may be on the low side to ensure a sale . |
| 2 | As far as the charter is concerned they may be on the right track ( if for the wrong reasons ) . |
| 3 | Other government ministers may be on the way out . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Election Focus:A Hung Parliament : Britain may be on the verge of a hung Parliament — and a dramatic change in the political landscape . |
| 6 | Its five orchestras consume £12 million of Radio 3 's annual budget of £49 million , but a series of leaked memos has suggested that some or all may be on the hit-list when the BBC 's charter comes up for renewal in 1996 . |
| 7 | The Unionist fear is that we may be on the last verse of another . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Care must be taken not to read more than is said into reports from others , particularly since the Regulations exclude access to the original report but a teacher 's use of it may be on the record . |
| 10 | In many cases the buildings show the Nordic influence of the long house with farm buildings attached , sheltering man and his animals under the same roof , and the gallery may be on the house or barn . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | MOUTHFULS of metal may be on the way out . |
| 14 | This little-known company director , chairman of Walsham brothers , may be on the highest salary in Britain : £8 million , according to Labour Research . |
| 15 | ‘ You may be on the level about having done a runner , or maybe not . |
| 16 | FOR the first half of the year you should have plenty of attack , although you may be on the receiving end of a show of force . |
| 17 | Manufacturing and service companies in the Midlands believe they may be on the brink of an economic turnaround . |
| 18 | He has previously been linked with the Chargers and a move down the Calfornian coast may be on the cards . |
| 19 | ‘ I think that the boot may be on the other leg ! ’ |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | It is wrong for a relatively well off professional person to do this with clients who may be on the bread-line . |
| 22 | START spreading the news — a little Cruiser may be on the way . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Alternatively if the process is highly complex the emphasis may be on the pattern of events as indicated by a network of blocks with a specialist symbol indicating the many points within the system for which information for the operator might appear and another symbol for points where he can interfere in the system dynamics ( Fig. 1.27 ) . |
| 25 | It may be a light aircraft twenty miles away , in which case they will go in their own cars , or it may be on the other side of the world , in which case they will be on the next airline flight in that direction and might not be home again for several weeks . |
| 26 | IBM JOB CUT ESTIMATES MAY BE ON THE LOW SIDE |
| 27 | Sketchy though Mr Foster 's account may be on the mechanics of the mass suspension of disbelief that supported the Reichmanns ' rise , he is at his best in explaining , meeting by meeting , how they came back to earth . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Changes may be on the way however . |
| 30 | In the second movement Allegro con grazia Koizumi may be on the slow side in the main 5/4 theme , but he is very persuasive , and then in the central section brings out an element of fantasy . |