Example sentences of "may be [art] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact those with a ‘ green image ’ may be no better than the non-green products beside them . |
| 2 | Communication should be mainly through the central command and control centre which may be no larger than the project leader and his small personal staff as may be a group of heads of sub-systems or both . |
| 3 | In one sense , offering insurance in this way may be no more than a marketing device and the whole deal is a matter for the commercial judgement of the firm involved — and their clients . |
| 4 | Self-defence of this kind may be no more than a threat , as in the case of the inflated toad , standing high on its legs when confronted by a grass snake ( above ) , or the frilled lizard ( right ) which erects a huge umbrella of skin around its gaping jaws . |
| 5 | Saving on housing is more than often , very unwise , when depreciated over a period of 10 years , the extra cost may be no more than a few eggs per bird extra . |
| 6 | Nearly three months have passed … by now a relieving force may be no more than a day 's march away , and yet you 're prepared to mortgage away your future lives as if they did not exist ! |
| 7 | This may be no more than a judgement of which line on a graduated scale a movable needle is nearest to . |
| 8 | Although urinary incontinence may be no more than a nuisance in some women , for many it is far more troublesome . |
| 9 | The external arrogance or bonhomie of the primary sufferer may be no more than a fearful mask . |
| 10 | But here , the B section may be no more than a brief refrain like the ‘ Alleluias ’ which end both parts of Richafort 's ‘ Quem dicunt homines ’ or an extended section of more than forty bars as with the ‘ fera pessima devoravit filium meum Joseph ’ of Clemens 's ‘ Tulerunt autem ’ which is spliced with the ends of the preceding sections in a way that epitomizes the composer 's technical skill : |
| 11 | In many cases the accompaniment may be no more than a doubling of the melody ( at the unison or octave , or even in the bass ) with added chordal harmony . |
| 12 | The most recent events may be impacts which have yielded craters with bright rays ( section 6.3.5 ) which may be no more than a few tens of Ma old . |
| 13 | If the present cratering rate on Mars can be extended into the distant past then it can be shown that among the light and moderately heavily cratered regions there is a great range of ages , from regions that may be no more than a few tens of Ma old , to regions about 3000 Ma old . |
| 14 | Estimates of the number of fluent speakers vary , but there may be no more than a few hundred thousand . |
| 15 | As Edmund is unlikely to have issued law in which he exhorted himself , these provisions may be no more than a programme laid before the full witan , and perhaps preached to it . |
| 16 | If so , the power of critics may be no more than the listings services offered in the papers or on posters , while real power can be found in the organisation of the art market . |
| 17 | Quite possibly , however , the fluctuations may be no more than the results of random changes in atmospheric activity which , occasionally , bring large deviations from normal conditions . |
| 18 | I 'm afraid it may be no more than the zoological equivalent of chauvinistic snobbery , analogous to the attitude that sees every Australian as an uncouth swagman with not much under his hat and corks dangling round the brim . |
| 19 | In many cases , the employer 's " trade secrets " may be no more than the result of the application by an employee of his own skill and judgment , but if the employee was engaged specifically to produce that information then it can still amount to a trade secret . |
| 20 | The adverb " conclusively " qualifying the word " certify " may be no more than the more commonly encountered provision that the expert 's decision will be final . |
| 21 | The discovery of tablets , syringes , strips of silver foil , small folded paper envelopes , strange pipes and various other items of paraphernalia associated with drug use may be no more than an indication of experiment rather than addiction . |
| 22 | The external schema is the subset of the database which is relevant to the particular user , and though it may be a summarised and a very restricted subset , the user may think that it represents the whole view , because it is the whole view as far as the user is concerned . |
| 23 | It may be a direct or an indirect restraint or it may be contained in an agreement outside the primary contract between the parties . |
| 24 | The upward direction of the head is away from the spine and not away from the earth ( although these may be the same when the structure is upright ) . |
| 25 | This may be the same as the eyebright-red-fescue dune of Robertson ( 1984 ) . |
| 26 | The publishing history of Mills and Boon emulates precisely that of the developments in mass market publishing in Europe and America ; it may be an extreme but the dating of shifts in their ownership and distribution structure conforms to the major historical changes in the publishing industry . |