Example sentences of "this may have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may have been no more than wishful thinking , and during the campaign the Conservative Party managed to project itself as the most radical of the contenders for office . |
| 2 | This may have been no shattering revelation for any man to make if it had n't been for the fact that in the hot steamy summer of ‘ 89 Lowe got himself laid by two girls in Atlanta , Georgia . |
| 3 | This may have been a late flowering of the ‘ badinage ’ that he used to partake in as a Young Conservative with Brixton locals , but so sensitive is Major about his background , that the public is permitted to hear only the Authorised Version . |
| 4 | This may have been a reasonable starting assumption for the initial round of forecasts made in 1985 , but it is not adequate now . |
| 5 | This may have been a Soviet response to the American nuclear war base facilities under construction at Diego Garcia ( and to a lesser extent to those at the Kagnew Communications Station near Asmara in Ethiopia which had declined in strategic significance and were slowly being wound down ) . |
| 6 | This may have been a popular superstition , but it was by no means confined to uneducated people . |
| 7 | This may have been a conservative blue colour with an elegant stripe down the middle of it , but it was all skew-whiff . |
| 8 | This may have been a difficult question for some to answer as it was an assessment of their own abilities . |
| 9 | Rather than a serious proposal , this may have been a diversionary tactic , intended to block the appointment of Bonito Oliva and force the Socialists to nominate a second-choice candidate with fewer political connotations . |
| 10 | This may have been a just compromise , but it was clearly illogical . |
| 11 | In retrospect , this may have been a deliberate gimmick as she so embarrassingly outclassed the first half 's performances by The Bruvvers , Chris Montez , Len Barry and Johnny Tillotson . |
| 12 | This may have been a conscious effort on Æthelred 's part to divide Olaf from Swegen , with the intention that he should then conquer Norway ( as he did ) and be a thorn in Swegen 's flesh ( as he was , until Swegen defeated and killed him ) . |
| 13 | There a new opera commission was discussed with Domenico Guardasoni , manager of the National Theatre ; this may have been an embryonic version of La clemenza di Tito , Mozart 's last opera , which he was to write for Prague two years later . |
| 14 | This may have been an open-ended shop with timber uprights based on the blocks , so providing both support for the gable end and a frame into which wooden shutters could be fitted when the shop was closed ( see Catterick , p. 114 ) . |
| 15 | This may have been the simple truth ; it may , alternatively , have been an instance of the use of delay by an intelligent but reluctant pleader . |
| 16 | And yet insiders think this may have been the last match of its kind , the end of an era . |
| 17 | In Vincent 's case , this may have been the very reaction he wanted . |
| 18 | One reason for this may have been the conventional wisdom that secularisation had made the subject well nigh irrelevant , another reason may have been that there are few areas in which the methodological problems are as acute as they are in the investigation of people 's beliefs and/or the assessment of the effect that these have upon the rest of society . |
| 19 | Now of course at this point , with many singers , one would have to change key , go into the minor , and report that , though this may have been the vocal prime , interpretative maturity still lay in the future , and that for artistic satisfaction one would have to turn to the well-known recordings of later years . |
| 20 | This may have been the same object as that lent by Gaston I to Clement V. The pope agreed to keep the talisman safely and to excommuni-cate anyone else who attempted to use it . |
| 21 | Our modern parental investment individualistic view would n't allow you to make that error , instead you 'd say you know you 've got ta look at the costs and benefits of the mother too and perhaps there are benefits to mothers in actively testing as it were their offspring , erm rather than just passively er accepting that they 're gon na have to be mothers and gon na have to get on with it and again you see , er I would er and this may have been the big mistake I made last year , er but again I stand by my er view on this and it 's a perfectly defensible one , erm again I think those who say that abortion is unnatural and kind of erm offends against er you know nature , are wrong . |