Example sentences of "may be [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women who find that homosexual men make wonderful friends , may be reflecting the fact that the freedom from preoccupation with physical sex leaves the relationship wide open to a full range of shared experiences which should be enjoyed freely between heterosexual men and women too . |
| 2 | The simplest option may be to leave the debt outstanding , extend the payment terms , and take new security or a variation of security . |
| 3 | We may be seeing a reflection of a more widespread export of consumables . |
| 4 | The proper scientist sees reality through a glass darkly — and believeth all facts , heareth all facts and seeth all facts , but still has to reckon with the fact that he is part of the experiment and may be seeing the reflection of his own opinions . |
| 5 | The section provides that a non-individual person may be granted a licence in its own name and that of the person responsible for the day-to-day running of the premises . |
| 6 | Let us pray that we may be granted the wisdom necessary to discern the values of the new culture created by the mass media , and to use the opportunities offered by modern communications technology always for the service of God and the good of his people . |
| 7 | If your household has two cars and you get rid of one of them you may be helping the environment , but are certainly worse off . |
| 8 | From the folk art section may be noted a collection of 25 weathervanes , including an 18th-century gilded and carved pine example from Portland , Maine ( est. $100,000–150,000 ; £51,500–77,300 ) . |
| 9 | If there are procedures that need improvement , one reaction of the committee to a JMU report may be to ask the practice to undertake to set up or to maintain certain procedures or to change other specific arrangements . |
| 10 | It may be prolonging the snail 's life . |
| 11 | A taller order may be prolonging the life of the XJS until the X100 takes over . |
| 12 | Mr Clinton may be staking the future of his presidency on his plan , details of which have been leaked over the past week . |
| 13 | The teacher supplying the push may be helping to launch the career of a future gold medallist ; but equally he may be setting a youth off down a path to nowhere . |
| 14 | A grade outlets may be visited every fortnight , B grade every month and C grade once every three months . |
| 15 | Some centres may be visited every week , some only once a year . |
| 16 | In some cases , the decision-maker 's aim may be to force an objective as close to its goal as possible , both shortfall and excess being undesirable . |
| 17 | However , if biographies of artists are carefully examined , it will be found that they do not necessarily contain much art criticism at all ; a biographer may prefer not to express personal views about the artist 's work ; a book 's main thrust may be to describe the artist 's own aims and ideas . |
| 18 | A person who is involved in a criminal act at the time he is injured may be denied an action . |
| 19 | Children may be denied the possibility of such abuse being detected . |
| 20 | It is also worth noting that Lawton claims that the HMIs may be pushing a model of curriculum planning ( based upon statements of aims and objectives ) which is out of date an issue we return to later in the chapter , and in Chapter 8 . |
| 21 | In Beyond the Pleasure Principle the position is that the pleasure principle may be serving the death instincts , which would imply that the Nirvana principle is basic to mental functioning alongside the reality principle . |
| 22 | If you have to cancel or change your plans , you may be charged a cancellation fee . |
| 23 | If you are arranging your mortgage via a mortgage broker and you do not choose an endowment-linked scheme , you may be charged a fee for his or her services . |
| 24 | Outgoing president Paul Scherer suggests that potential candidates may be exaggerating the pressures on the president : there are in fact no more than six Council meetings a year , and an additional monthly afternoon meeting for officers . |
| 25 | If parents choose to proceed on this basis , they should do so with the full understanding that they may be aborting a child capable of experiencing as full and satisfying a life as anyone else . |
| 26 | This reasoning seems slightly artificial where the essence of what is alleged is fighting , and the better course may be to charge the person fighting with assault , or affray , or both . |
| 27 | ‘ Although I ca n't help wondering whether you may be creating a tool which could be dangerously used . |
| 28 | And again , ‘ people are more conscious of the widening circle of violence , involving more and more the decent , public-spirited people of the province and not just riotous bullies who may be creating the violence themselves . ’ |
| 29 | A company that picks out staff for promotion in the absence of objective criteria may be creating an atmosphere of bitterness and frustration among those who are left behind . |
| 30 | Usually accompanied by a village or hamlet , such a caput may be called a villa regalis , but the terms aula , mansio and maerdref are also used . |