Example sentences of "[noun] may be [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dementia sufferer may be living in substandard accommodation . |
| 2 | Employers may be sifting through dozens of forms and unwilling to plough through a lot of waffle . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Bethpage , New York-based Grumman Corp may be looking for computer-related acquisitions , but in the meantime , it is to use up some of its cash pile by spending up to $100m buying in its own shares . |
| 5 | The tentacle pores are large with two small tentacles although in some specimens one or both scales may be missing on some of the pores . |
| 6 | I think the case may be breaking at last . ’ |
| 7 | But now , at long last , it seems as though this might be ending : the much vaunted triumph of the West may be faltering in this , its first confrontation with a region and a group of peoples who are as confident and as proud — and as rich and powerful — as the Westerners have long been . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Any such group may be working with one consultant only . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | POLITICIANS MAY BE squabbling over who owns the bombs and ordinary Russians and Ukrainians may be queuing for three hours for a sausage , then three more for a potato , but some good news is coming out of what was once the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | It is hard to disregard the problem in light of the 1992 OPCS national research findings that up to 400,000 elderly people may be suffering from this type of abuse , and the stress in the community care legislation on maintaining elderly people in their own homes . |
| 14 | There is growing concern among governments friendly to Israel at indications Israeli objectives may be shifting from original position seeking peace with no repeat no territorial gains toward one of territorial expansionism . |
| 15 | It is wrong that people should be able to abuse the social security contribution system , and I hope that Ministers will keep a close eye on the matter because the smart people who offer advice may be looking for further ways of getting around the regulations . |
| 16 | At the present time teachers may be working with limited resources whilst seeking to meet the varying demands of children with special educational needs . |
| 17 | Across in Hong Kong the marine department raises a single beacon on a flagpole on Green Island , the No. 1 signal : all Hong Kong is now formally aware that a typhoon may be forming within 500 miles . |
| 18 | For example , delay on the project may be owing to either lack of information from the surveyor or the failure of the contractor to progress the works at the required pace . |
| 19 | Mm , there may be a need post two thousand and six for a further settlement , we wo n't know until we see , we do n't know the strategic policy context in which that decision will be taken , nor nor of course exactly what sort of demographic requirements may be arising in that period . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , as I understand it , the individual may be striving towards mature object relations but finds himself in situations where those in authority to whom he may want to relate may cause him to regress towards infantile dependence . |
| 22 | IRA terrorists from the North may be travelling on British passports . |
| 23 | What Gandhi may be indicating by this reference to the convertibility of the terms means and ends in his thought is that our religious and ethical ideals not only inform the ends we aim at and endeavour to attain , but also the means we employ to reach them . |