Example sentences of "may be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now , the reader may be on his way to deciding that this is the better world of the two , and to wondering if the poet is trying to get his own back . |
| 2 | Sotheby 's have estimated its value at $10m-$14m , but this may be on the low side to ensure a sale . |
| 3 | But we employ thirty thousand people and therefore one has to look after the majority , however hard it may be on a relatively few — one thousand people in that particular case . |
| 4 | As far as the charter is concerned they may be on the right track ( if for the wrong reasons ) . |
| 5 | We should park a little of our funds in those societies either tipped to convert to a public company or ripe for takeover to benefit from any freebies that may be on offer . |
| 6 | Other government ministers may be on the way out . |
| 7 | He dropped hints that real alien implants have been discovered , but said he could n't reveal anything yet because , well , you know … … but something pretty earth-shattering may be on its way . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Election Focus:A Hung Parliament : Britain may be on the verge of a hung Parliament — and a dramatic change in the political landscape . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Unionist fear is that we may be on the last verse of another . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | BY the time you read this , I may be on my knees , along with millions of other Christian people , at the Solemn Liturgy for Good Friday . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Many acts of trespass , breaches of contract , violations of copyright , and so on , regrettable as some of them may be on other grounds , have no implications one way or another for the stability of the government and the law . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The effect of such storage may be on either the package or the product or both and these effects may be classified as follows . |
| 19 | Effects of incompatibility between product and this primary container , which may be on either product or package or both , e.g. , corrosion of metal tubes ; stress-cracking of plastic tubes ; absorption of constituents of the product such as preservatives by the container ; leaching of constituents of the container by the product . |
| 20 | These may be on a window-sill , balcony or patio , and are often more convenient to manage because there is a firm , hard surface to stand on , or to take the wheelchair . |
| 21 | These patients may be on diet alone or diet and oral agents with records of urine results which they have continually mislaid . |
| 22 | Headache may be on its own or the forerunner of other complaints ; it accompanies almost all other illnesses . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Such work may be on an individual or group project basis . |
| 25 | MOUTHFULS of metal may be on the way out . |
| 26 | Although accountants may be on hand , the surveyor at partner level in a growing practice , or one of a substantial size , may find himself in the anomalous situation of spending the major part of his time on management for which he received no training rather than on technical matters , in which he is expert . |
| 27 | A speechreader may be on top form and have no problems in understanding unimportant asides or trivial chatter , but at the vital interview panic sets in . |
| 28 | It may be on a one-to-one basis or with a couple where one partner has impaired hearing . |
| 29 | This little-known company director , chairman of Walsham brothers , may be on the highest salary in Britain : £8 million , according to Labour Research . |
| 30 | ‘ You may be on the level about having done a runner , or maybe not . |