Example sentences of "they may [adv] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though they may already be thinking about their appearance , and becoming fashion-conscious , on many occasions all this is forgotten and , in running , dancing or laughing , they revert to a natural ease through which a certain innocence shines . |
| 2 | What they may unconsciously be looking for is containment . |
| 3 | They may still be in a considerable amount of pain and shock , they will undoubtedly have financial worries and they may well be experiencing difficulties in coming to terms with the implications of the accident for themselves and their families . |
| 4 | They may , let me just explain the track then , in those situations they may well be investing in the depots , maintenance and so on , but let me just |
| 5 | Or they may just be building up their forces to start another attack . |
| 6 | The Kurdish delegates , to underline the point that they too are Iraqi , speak up against any violation of sovereignty ; they may also be proposing that the Kurdish guerrillas be somehow absorbed into the Iraqi armed forces as a local militia protecting the autonomous zone . |
| 7 | There have been differences of opinion as to how such matters should be most advantageously introduced to school children , and some have argued that the " library period " where children systematically practise " library skills " , in isolation from any other work they may also be doing , is a mistake . |
| 8 | They may be talking about membership of Ulster 's protestant secret societies , particularly the Orange order , the Royal Black Preceptory , and the Apprentice Boys ' Club ; or about religion — being saved , being a church member , or even a non-practising protestant ; or what appear to them to be key ethical issues such as drink , tobacco , and money ; or they may simply be describing in ordinary everyday language life in the family , on the farm , and in the village . |
| 9 | BABIES who suddenly become bad-tempered and restless may not be sick — they may simply be suffering growing pains . |
| 10 | ‘ They may not be sending them abroad — ‘ That is what they promised when James enlisted . ’ |
| 11 | When someone Takes the Side of the Other they may not be developing something totally novel , in the sense that the classic experimental subject , who shows attitude-change , incorporates a totally new piece of information . |
| 12 | They may not be using these terms but , for the first time , a career counsellor can obtain reliable data from interviews or questionnaires which detect goal priorities and motivation profiles . |
| 13 | Or , in an established school where they may not be using the most effective language teaching methods . |
| 14 | They may not be looking for treatment or rehabilitation but er what we can offer them is clean injecting equipment er free condoms , because H I V is transmitted sexually as well , probably more than , more often than in Oxfordshire , er and also we have been prescribing from an assessment clinic in the city centre . |
| 15 | Sometimes , as in the case of a foreign or inter-state trip , the youngster may just not be old enough or experienced enough to cope , but at other times they may not be showing enough sense of responsibility to be safely granted privileges . |
| 16 | In response Kosygin admitted that ‘ they may not be hurting us , but they give us no pleasure either ’ . |
| 17 | I sometimes think they may not be paying him . |
| 18 | They may only be pretending . |
| 19 | For example , when children show off in front of strangers they may really be communicating their uncertainty , even ( paradoxically ) their shyness . |
| 20 | This may be of advantage to the developer too , attracting passers-by , even though they may initially be looking for a short cut . |
| 21 | But the police fear they may now be moving onto new , softer targets |
| 22 | By the same token , however , they may now be tacking fitfully back to growth while Germany and , to a lesser extent Japan , linger in relative doldrums . |
| 23 | They may still be mourning the loss of the parent who has died or left home . |
| 24 | In fact , they may still be working a week before the opening . |