Example sentences of "may be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is just because whatever one has planned is bound to change as one proceeds that it is fatal to start too soon or too late , though it may be no less fatal , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , to start at the right time , for then there is no excuse , no excuse whatsoever . |
| 3 | By the time that you have battled against the wind to get there , you may find that it has some hazard that you could not see from a distance , and then there may be no other good field within reach . |
| 4 | I was n't expecting the press to get hold of it , mind you ; but it may be no bad thing . ’ |
| 5 | Most important , there may be no interesting similarity whatsoever that could be formulated in the vocabulary of physics between such a system and the brain . |
| 6 | Some wiring instructions will come with the lamp , but there may be no advice about running the actual power supply into the garden . |
| 7 | Microphones may be no real answer , but with the exception of Louis Hagen-William 's Porgy and Daniel Washington 's Crown none of the voices had adequate carrying power without them . |
| 8 | There may be no single poem in it to equal Pope 's Eloisa to Abelard ( 1717 ) , Gray 's Elegy ( 1751 ) or Coleridge 's Frost at Midnight ( 1798 ) ; but one of Lonsdale 's intentions is to encourage us to extend our definition of what constitutes poetry . |
| 9 | There may be no answer , in the sense that there may be no available cure which will work . ’ |
| 10 | There may be no answer , in the sense that there may be no available cure which will work . ’ |
| 11 | Given the history of borrowing by the Brazilian and Argentine governments , this may be no bad thing . |
| 12 | It is assumed here that juries and others do attach considerable importance to the label when it is a question of homicide , and therefore that the excessive use of force in self-defence is a matter which is properly reflected by a separate qualified defence , rather than being left to sentencing ( which means executive discretion , if the mandatory penalty for murder remains ) or forced artificially into the doctrine of provocation ( when there may be no real evidence of loss of self-control ) . |
| 13 | It can be argued that these offences may be no less traumatic for the victim than ‘ conventional ’ rape , and therefore that any attempt to classify sexual offences by reference to their seriousness should place these forms of sexual assault in the highest category . |
| 14 | The practical problems are that there may be no evidence of violence on the woman 's body , which usually means that the case will be a question of the victim 's word against the defendant 's ; this may lead the police to be sceptical of the woman 's complaint , or may incline the prosecutor to accept a plea of guilty to the lesser charge of indecent assault . |
| 15 | This may be no bad time to tell the Inland Revenue that you have gone away . |
| 16 | There may be no overseas players next season and high-profile players may have to go to recoup some cash and pay off debts . ’ |
| 17 | Now a ‘ searching for something ’ or ‘ exploring ’ theme crops up a great deal in drama and there are many teachers who do not recognise that what looks like a tense , exciting , well-focused structure may be no such thing . |
| 18 | They may have been the gigantic reptilian analogue of the elephant , and it may be no coincidence that the elephant also has its nasal openings on top of the skull , with the nostrils in this case sited at the end of the trunk it has been suggested that some sauropods may have had a proboscis of some sort . |
| 19 | This may be no coincidence : it is based on Bharatha Natyam , the dance of Ramanujan 's mathematically aware Tamil Nadu . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For many buildings under threat there may be no obvious immediate source of information . |
| 22 | The life of a new shopping precinct may be no more than twenty years . |
| 23 | At the same time , it builds a prison-house of rhetoric from which there may be no practical possibility of escape : as later with the writings of Baudrillard , their critique , in its totalizing embrace , always seems to have a neutralizing answer to suggestions of difference . |
| 24 | Or they may be no more than symptoms of a chemical fault in the consciousness-generator , and of no greater significance than that . |
| 25 | Following the primary attack , there may be no further episodes , or the disease may recur over a long period , in some cases several years . |
| 26 | Although it has a malevolent appearance , the primary chancre is usually completely painless and , unless secondary bacterial infection occurs , there may be no symptoms . |
| 27 | In the best case you may inherit excellent facilities needing only minor alterations ; in the worst there may be no buildings at all or it may be wisest to level the lot and start again . |
| 28 | If it is sited in a sheltered spot there may be no need for side cladding ; on a windy site the rain will blow in horizontally from the eaves , particularly when the barn is nearly empty . |
| 29 | If the water is doing , or will do , no damage , there may be no problem . |
| 30 | This was applied and extended by Sir Robert to safeguard the arrangements for telephone-tapping , even though when a tap is placed there may be no iniquity but only the suspicion of iniquity ; and that entire conversations may be recorded and listened to ‘ when much of the conversations may be highly confidential and untainted by any iniquity ’ . |