Example sentences of "may [be] [verb] [art] " 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 By the end of the week the concern may be to assess a new approach to the pay round in response to a union proposal .
3 The simplest option may be to leave the debt outstanding , extend the payment terms , and take new security or a variation of security .
4 We may be seeing a reflection of a more widespread export of consumables .
5 The Army may be seeing a smaller throughput of students , but its four core course levels remain and , ironically , new courses are constantly being introduced to meet changing needs .
6 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 .
7 At best , they may be granted a specific validity , as experts in feminine psychology .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 ) .
12 It may be to enable a moving vehicle to draw electric power while it runs along rails , the innovation that made possible the electric streetcar .
13 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 .
14 It may be prolonging the snail 's life .
15 A taller order may be prolonging the life of the XJS until the X100 takes over .
16 Indeed , the possibility that he may actually have known Rodrigo can not be ruled out , and offers a tantalizing possibility that we may be reading a first-hand account .
17 Mr Clinton may be staking the future of his presidency on his plan , details of which have been leaked over the past week .
18 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 .
19 Some centres may be visited every week , some only once a year .
20 A grade outlets may be visited every fortnight , B grade every month and C grade once every three months .
21 Moreover , the effect of avian frugivores on insect frugivores may be to force the latter to eat unripe fruits or leave the host , lest they be eaten by omnivorous birds .
22 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 .
23 For example , one aim of a business plan may be to acquire the local authority housing department as a new client .
24 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 .
25 To act in such a way is wrong because the employee may be denied a full opportunity to respond to every point being made against him .
26 A person who is involved in a criminal act at the time he is injured may be denied an action .
27 Children may be denied the possibility of such abuse being detected .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 If you have to cancel or change your plans , you may be charged a cancellation fee .
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