Example sentences of "[pers pn] may be [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feel I may be witnessing end of Christian and dawn of Lucindian era . |
| 2 | You may be receiving help soon from an unexpected source . ’ |
| 3 | If not , you may be given action points to develop your business idea for Stage 2 . |
| 4 | If you are getting married at a particular church or synagogue you may be granted access to a library not normally opened to the public . |
| 5 | Comment : You may be offering closeness and commonality that 's not reciprocated and is overpowering . |
| 6 | Like many people , you may be putting money aside in one of the variety of deposit based savings accounts now available . |
| 7 | You may want this , and choose coral gravel or crushed shell — but you may be keeping Neon Tetras or Discus and need hardness-free gravel . |
| 8 | So , it makes sense to transfer money you may hold in a building society account or other savings account where you may be paying tax on the interest . |
| 9 | This means that even if the applicant has standing , has made the application in good time , and can establish that the respondent has acted illegally , he or she may be denied relief if the court thinks , for some reason , that relief should not be granted . |
| 10 | Other examples of such ambiguity are plentiful ; we offer at random : ( 3 ) ( a ) she wants to play the character limping ( b ) this process leaves the items date-stamped ( c ) Elmer made all the excuses imaginable ( d ) our lawyer sent the packages registered For instance , taking example ( c ) , under the attributive version , a speaker has a low opinion of Elmer as a man who prevaricates or procrastinates ; but with the alternative interpretation she may be giving credit to him for lending colour and credibility to a defence which has to be put forward . |
| 11 | One of the things that does , I 'm not being Chairman , just asking questions , but one of the things that slightly concerns me because I know that in his document the director has put about providing day care type facilities in rural areas and I remember at our last meeting , the last meeting at one , we discussed specifically and area , erm it does , does worry me a little whether the absence of any capital expenditure on our part means that we may be providing day care facilities in some areas but it 'll be of a very much lower quality or a lesser quality than we may be providing anywhere else in the areas like and and . |
| 12 | Above all , we will try to address the significance of multimedia in a general sense and assess its likely impact on the way in which we may be using information in the final years of the century . |
| 13 | They may be offered counselling , visited by a health visitor or referred back to their GP if the problem is medical . |
| 14 | They may be offered counselling , visited by a health visitor or referred back to their GP if the problem is medical . |
| 15 | It is not something which presents too much of a problem , but it may be causing damage in the long term . |
| 16 | It may be grouping error as discussed in the previous paragraph . |
| 17 | And however desirable it may be to achieve unanimity , at least on basic values and the general directions to be pursued by a society , it is unwise , in any diverse society , to make it a rule or a requirement . |
| 18 | Well could I I mean this is of course one of the criticisms that one had to bear about Mrs. Thatcher about erm they say he 's not his own man , that to me indicates that he may be taking advice . |
| 19 | If a person is unfairly dismissed he may be awarded compensation . |