Example sentences of "may be [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | One explanation from this list is of particular interest : if the economy is in an unusually deep recession , firms may be operating at levels of output at which the marginal cost of production is falling . |
| 2 | It must therefore be recognised that the greatest protagonist of deregulation are largely acting out of self-interest , and that they themselves demonstrate remarkable inconsistency and reversals in their arguments — depending on which area of that self interest they may be pursuing at any particular moment . |
| 3 | ‘ We may be looking at a racial motive , but there is no doubt they were copying the other carjackings . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Probably were n't I do n't know but they seemed to us I may be looking at it from a child 's eyes but er that 's how they seemed to be to me . |
| 6 | ‘ I rather gather , ’ he said , ‘ the police may be looking at Gray 's connection with that man Jefferson . |
| 7 | ‘ To think I may be looking at the last of the Corbetts . ’ |
| 8 | I think the case may be breaking at last . ’ |
| 9 | Green ponds should not be a problem now , but come next summer , you may be clutching at straws . |
| 10 | In particular , as outlined below , one area of potential dissension and difficulty in the modern small private company is the very fact that some of the relevant legal rules and remedies are based on being able to distinguish the capacity in which a particular individual may be acting at a given time . |
| 11 | At source , a basalt lava may be moving at twenty or more kilometres an hour ; at the far end it may be oozing forward like treacle at only a few metres per hour ; so the temperature of a magma will obviously affect the style of an eruption considerably . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The signal of pain overrides any other signals that the brain may be receiving at that moment , any thoughts , ideas , or preoccupations are immediately swept aside so that the brain can attend to the pain and do something about it . |
| 14 | Sunderland may be playing at Wembley next month but they may also be relegated from the Second Division despite having games in hand . |
| 15 | But an information gap is not necessarily the same as the operation of different schemata , which may be working at a deeper and less accessible level . |
| 16 | No debt of the Business which may be owing at Completion is overdue by more than eight weeks and the amount of such debts ( less the amount of any provision or reserve calculated on the same basis as that applied in the Accounts and disclosed in the Disclosure Letter ) will be recoverable in full in the ordinary course of business and in any event not later than eight weeks after Completion and none of the said debts is subject to any counter-claim or set-off except to the extent of any such provision or reserve . |
| 17 | This failure may be gnawing at the roots of Japan 's post-war success . |
| 18 | I understand why the hon. Gentleman may be frothing at the mouth at the thought that , after all the years that he has spent preparing as shadow arts Minister , were the Labour party to be elected — horror of horrors — it would not be him but Melvyn ’ Time to Dance ’ Bragg who would be Labour 's arts Minister . |
| 19 | It is this conception of uneven and combined development , in which the whole may be growing at some point in time , but within that overall growth there will be sectors in decline . |
| 20 | In rare circumstances , one copy may be missing at birth , and this increases the likelihood that the second copy may be damaged , and a tumour then results . |
| 21 | But at 11.20 pm — just as Highlights from Augusta offer relief from a man repeatedly declaring that the second election result may be coming at any minute — Scotland is being indulged with different fare . |