Example sentences of "may be [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , it acts as a source of capital and labour which can be indirectly utilised by other forms of capital that may be operating in different spheres of the economy . |
| 2 | Employers may be sifting through dozens of forms and unwilling to plough through a lot of waffle . |
| 3 | It must therefore be recognised that the greatest protagonist of deregulation are largely acting out of self-interest , and that they themselves demonstrate remarkable inconsistency and reversals in their arguments — depending on which area of that self interest they may be pursuing at any particular moment . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Throughout the text , other works are cross-referenced for more detailed or specific assistance to a practitioner who may be looking into one particular area in more detail . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | You may be looking for light domestic help one or two hours per week , or 24-hour a day care . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A dementia sufferer may be living in substandard accommodation . |
| 11 | I think the case may be breaking at last . ’ |
| 12 | Rather they rely not only to some extent upon judgement and intuition about the future , but also upon personal negotiations and bargaining between the executives , who may be competing with each other for scarce resources and may each be supporting their case with OR and economic models . |
| 13 | This type of biography must be particularly carefully scrutinized since it may be lacking in much criticism of its subject . |
| 14 | But in our rushed , modern lifestyle we often rely on convenience foods and snacks which may be lacking in proper nutrition . |
| 15 | Conversely , the octogenarians of today , whose prime earning period coincided with the Depression , may be financing through indirect taxes the education of the eight-year-olds who will enjoy the fruits of the twenty-first century ! |
| 16 | It looks as if there is a walk down there but we 've never been on it but tell you where you may be thinking of , you may be thinking of that walk that goes towards the erm adventure park at the other side of Buckfastleigh . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But they may be hoping in vain . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In other words , little ozone holes , several hundreds of kilometres across , may be forming in middle latitudes during the winter rather than one large hole , several thousands of kilometres across , forming over the pole in springtime as happens in Antarctica . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We hear they may be trying for 2.5 volts to reduce heat on the part . |
| 26 | Evenings represent maximum temptation for most slimmers , although around four o'clock in the afternoon , when the children come home from school , can be the worst time for many mothers who may be waiting until mid evening to dine with their husbands . |
| 27 | The euphemistic linguistic representation of sexual foreplay as in L'Esquiriel may be titillating to different readers to various possible degrees , but in general such presentations in the fabliaux are either too absurd or too blatant , or both of these , for the fabliaux to stand any serious comparison with the verbal eroticism of modern pornographic narrative . |
| 28 | The series coincides with activities you may be planning for human rights day on 10 December . |
| 29 | They may be trying to understand and explain a whole period of the past or they may be concentrating on one individual problem . |
| 30 | The user probably has limited expertise and he may be working under various stress conditions . |