Example sentences of "may be [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the smaller firms supplying the larger ones , some may be operating independently and others as subcontractors . |
| 2 | It simply means they promise anything to get you off the phone , so keep your fingers crossed or you may be staying here more than one night . ’ |
| 3 | A bird may be flying home , carrying food for its own young . |
| 4 | LENNOX LEWIS may be protesting too much about wanting to fight Riddick Bowe immediately for the undisputed world heavyweight title . |
| 5 | But it may well be a happy life , and that we may be taking away . |
| 6 | But while some operators may be taking longer to firm up their plans , oil supply companies did not leave Offshore Europe empty-handed . |
| 7 | The Hitachi array is expected to use quirky 6.5 ’ disk drives and is pitched at a market Hopkinton , Massachusetts-based EMC Corp has made its own with its Symmetrix product , which Gartner Group reckons may be taking as much as 10% of the current mainframe disk market . |
| 8 | The light may be flickering wildly , but my head must be clear , my thoughts steady . |
| 9 | A man may be looking forward to regaining the undivided attention of his wife . |
| 10 | Some may be looking forward to the next life , others begin to take a pride in having reached advanced years , even in outliving others . |
| 11 | Children may be living apart from their families for a variety of reasons . |
| 12 | A company in a dominant position which charges excessive prices for its products may be acting abusively . |
| 13 | you may be getting somewhere near . |
| 14 | The ever loyal Daily Telegraph would come closest to paralleling the Conservative Party though even here its organizational links with the party are weak and may be getting even weaker as a result of its new Canadian ownership . |
| 15 | Add to that determination , patience , skill , desire , stamina and a good pair of shoes and you may be getting close to finding out . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , for two reasons , the job of the nuclear thief or illicit buyer may be getting significantly easier . |
| 17 | There is one community that is chortling to itself over IBM Corp 's worldwide shredding of its mainframe price list , and that is the big leasing companies : while any prudent data processing manager has to call in Amdahl Corp , Hitachi Data Systems Ltd and Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH to be sure that the bid is n't a rip-off , there is still the nagging doubt that other people may be getting much better deals from IBM , and the only community that sees a wide variety of deals going down is the leasing fraternity , and the big ones say their people have n't been so busy in ages ; the effect of all this is to stretch out the buying process by weeks , to the likely detriment of the IBM first quarter figures . |
| 18 | One of the things that does , I 'm not being Chairman , just asking questions , but one of the things that slightly concerns me because I know that in his document the director has put about providing day care type facilities in rural areas and I remember at our last meeting , the last meeting at one , we discussed specifically and area , erm it does , does worry me a little whether the absence of any capital expenditure on our part means that we may be providing day care facilities in some areas but it 'll be of a very much lower quality or a lesser quality than we may be providing anywhere else in the areas like and and . |
| 19 | On the other hand you may be expecting too fast a weight loss . |
| 20 | In one of the supporting in-depth interviews , one respondent said : ‘ We have one lawyer whom we contact once a month on average for disputes or land deals and so on and another one who specialises in debt collecting who may be chasing about 20 customers at any one time . |
| 21 | In the curious world of Japanese politics , the cause of political reform may be moving forwards just when it seems to be moving backwards |
| 22 | The forces of change may be moving rapidly but the corporate response is slower , says Collis . |
| 23 | May be sinking rapidly into this unreactive state ; suffocating on white mucus ; lacks the power to clear it but would be better ( > ) if they could . |
| 24 | However , once again , the Council may be assuming too great a role for itself in meeting this need . |
| 25 | The scope of this section is wide , since there are three reasons why a person may be dealing otherwise than as a consumer : first , because he is a businessman ( see s 12(1) ( a ) ) ; second , because the other party is not a businessman ( see s 12(1) ( b ) ) ; and third , because the goods are not of a type ordinarily supplied for private use or consumption ( see s 12(1) ( c ) ) . |
| 26 | The famous inscription from Brough-on-Humber ( vicus Petuariensis ) , attesting the presence of a theatre , shows that some vici possessed magistrates with the title of aedile , although we may be dealing here with a site which was also a civitas capital . |
| 27 | ‘ My dear , do be quiet — he may be listening now ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Then Mait may be using tonight 's ceremony to reunite the Old One 's mind with the rest of it … . ’ |
| 29 | The results of research with such instruments would enable general practitioners to provide scientific evidence to managers on why they may be using more expensive management options for a particular illness when the managers exert pressure on them to use the cheapest . |
| 30 | The romantic days which have seen the bold David McTaggart striding the Pacific main in the Greenpeace ketch Vega to challenge the French bomb testers at Moruroa atoll may be passing simply because , in that particular case , the military reasons for testing are passing . |