Example sentences of "[noun] may be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a worse condition , if a company allowed up to five versions of any drawing to be saved , with drawing blank and logo — as much as 98 per cent of redundant data may be being stored and maintained . |
| 2 | Nonetheless , something seems to be happening ; a new political machine may be being cranked up . |
| 3 | The engine may be be smooth , refined and flexible in its mid-range , but for a cross-country sprint it 's asthmatic . |
| 4 | Many older patients who probably neither had asthma nor died of asthma may be being entered into the statistics for asthma mortality because of inappropriate use of the word asthma on death certificates , diagnostic transfer , or coding changes . |
| 5 | The most striking finding , however , is that the warming effect caused by greenhouse gases may be being slowed both by the effects of sulphur dioxide pollution , and also by the depletion of the ozone layer . |
| 6 | The numbers of baby eels in Scandinavian and European rivers are also declining , and the NRA believe that the depopulation may be being caused by an unknown factor , possibly pollution , in the Atlantic . |
| 7 | How great the effect of the interfaces may be is shown by a famous experiment of Professor Orowan 's with mica . |
| 8 | But although he could not be said to have reached any hard-and-fast conclusions to this question , so fearful were the prospects of this supposed evolutionary degeneration that Karl Pearson took refuge ( and a certain amount of comfort ) in the fact that its results were far away : ‘ Happily , what the distant future of the world may be is a matter that does not much concern us , and about which we may rejoice to know nothing . ’ |
| 9 | Exactly how extensive such economies may be is uncertain , especially in the early days of mergers between commercial banks , investment banks and securities dealers … |
| 10 | Research has indicated how radioactive contaminants may be being introduced into the human food chain via the migration of wildfowl through the Chernobyl region . |