Example sentences of "may reflect [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the strange lack of concern in ‘ A ’ Squadron 's diary and reports , and the fact that I heard so little from the regiment subsequently , may reflect a suspicion ( or knowledge ) on their part . |
| 2 | This population concentration may reflect a number of factors , for example , cultural considerations . |
| 3 | They also offer relatively modest time allocations for practical and prevocational subjects in upper primary classes , a feature which may reflect a lack of real conviction by syllabus panels to respond to the political creed that such studies are necessary and profitable for primary level children , but may also be born of a firm realistic assessment of the lack of money and materials to make such studies workable . |
| 4 | This change may reflect a disillusionment with the cost-benefit approach and the realisation that while this attitude might be helpful in manufacturing industry it certainly did not work in the service industry to which most of the Highlands were exposed . |
| 5 | It seems probable that all tools were handed on from one generation to the next ; their frequency in Kent may reflect a greater overall wealth and the ability to dispose of such items as grave-goods . |
| 6 | AD 600 onwards may reflect a growing demand for luxury goods and the scale of such transactions , and also the need to regularise the transactions . |
| 7 | This may reflect a greater fear of unemployment in recent years . |
| 8 | It seems likely that improvements in the health and work capacity of the elderly population over the last eighty years have more than compensated for any putative increase in the physical and mental demands of employment ; if so , rising retirement rates may reflect a decrease in the demand for the labour of elderly workers over a period in which their employment capacity has risen . |
| 9 | Since we are quite different in our behavioural capacities , notably in our possessing language , this may reflect a lack of subtlety on the part of the anatomists but it is probably reasonable to assume that the input and output ends of the system are pretty much the same in monkeys as in people . |
| 10 | Satisfactory explanations for these reductions in mortality from circulatory diseases have not yet been arrived at and may reflect a change in the disease , improved medical care or changes in lifestyle habits . |
| 11 | Making objectives explicit is a hostage to fortune and the failure to do so may reflect a shrewd awareness . |
| 12 | Given the behaviour of fixed-interest security prices over the period , this may reflect a desire to hold such stock mainly for its capital gain potential . |
| 13 | This may reflect a difference in emphasis in that parents seemed to be looking for information about their child 's overall character and behaviour ( eg ‘ good at sharing toys ’ ) whereas staff seemed to report specific good behaviour ( eg ‘ She 's done a lovely painting this morning ’ or ‘ He ate his dinner up nicely today ’ ) . |
| 14 | This may reflect a general expectation on the part of the subjects that an experiment concerned with risk would involve more obviously dangerous situations , thus they have left themselves ‘ headroom ’ on the response scale . |
| 15 | On the other hand , physicians also worry that such criteria may reflect a tendency to stereotype or depersonalise their elderly patients . |
| 16 | Therefore , increased expression of ET-1 in epithelial and endothelial cells may reflect a disease-specific activation of the cell types , which possibly contributes to the pathogenesis of CFA and associated pulmonary hypertension . |
| 17 | A high incidence of sexual abuse has been identified in anorexia nervosa ; however , recent research has suggested that this may reflect a more general vulnerability to psychiatric illness . |
| 18 | Even so , together with the problems at Ely , they may reflect a somewhat hostile attitude to Cnut in this area , perhaps exploited by Thorkell , its earl , who was banished in 1021 . |
| 19 | The increase may reflect a rise in reporting , rather than actual poisoning . |
| 20 | Also the the June figure may reflect a erm er a catching up on May . |
| 21 | Even Ian Paisley 's free presbyterians , who have communities in County Cavan and Dublin , are centrally organized , though this may reflect the practical situation in Ireland and the role of the ‘ big man ’ himself within the church he founded . |
| 22 | According to a survey conducted for the BBC in April 1974 by Professor Richard Rose , sixty-nine per cent of the people of Northern Ireland thought that the executive should be given a chance to govern but this finding was contradicted by the results of a general election two months earlier and may reflect the general tendency of survey respondents to make statements in response to poll questions which are more moderate than their real views . |
| 23 | Admittedly , Huaiwiri was a peaceful place , which may reflect the exceptional power of women there . |
| 24 | Thus anatomy may reflect the fact that there are only a few ways in which some engineering problem can be solved . |
| 25 | The former , which is more draconian , may reflect the longer term perceived treatment needs of the men . |
| 26 | Such treatment may reflect the readership the authors had in mind . |
| 27 | The pre-eminence apparently accorded to Christianity here may reflect the position in the country as a whole ; but it is easy to see how some religious groups would identify an implicit suggestion by the section that the other religious traditions in Great Britain are less important . |
| 28 | Withdrawal of a pupil from sex education in fact presents schools with something of a dilemma — whether to accede to parental wishes , which may reflect the parent 's philosophical or religious convictions , or whether to make the welfare of the child the paramount consideration . |
| 29 | Over 60 per cent of cases occur in males , and it is much more common among the Negro races than Caucasians , although this may reflect the areas where it is endemic rather than any racial predilection . |
| 30 | This last speciality may reflect the much earlier skills of the Franks , the Frankish swords were of such good quality that the Emperor Charlemagne issued an edict that they were not to be exported . |