Example sentences of "[art] [noun] may be [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been estimated that the industry may be short of some 50,000 skilled craftsmen in the next two years . |
| 2 | We lost roughly 1,000 trees in this year 's gales , and we 're worried that the squirrels may be short of fir cones ; they say one red squirrel needs about six acres of woodland to survive . |
| 3 | Those who refuse to cooperate with the research may be untypical of the population as a whole , and their failure to take part may distort the findings . |
| 4 | The invention of the wheel may be one of the landmarks of the forward march of humankind , but there were still parts of eighteenth-century England where it was of scant practical value . |
| 5 | But ‘ different ’ dreams need not necessarily be unpleasant ; they affect our waking consciousness , certainly , but the effect may be one of pleasure rather than torment — as with a sexual dream . |
| 6 | Analysis on these lines often has a basis in lexical studies ( the Chubin & Moitra paper suggests subject analysis of reference contents from titles cited ) , and since metaphor plays such an important part in descriptions of the citation process ( Cronin 1981 ) , there is a danger that the models may be descriptive of a meta-reality which does not truly model the actual use of citations by authors and readers . |
| 7 | The plain may be bereft of lambs these days . |
| 8 | Alternatively , parties may be dominated more by individuals than by issues , and the process may be one of competition for political leadership ( Schumpeter , 1954 ) . |
| 9 | The best guess at the truth may be that of the sceptical experts whose answer to the question ‘ What can be done ? ’ was , from the start : precious little . |
| 10 | Whereas if Mary is eight years old and known to be an intrepid skipper , the announcement may be one of a depressingly predictable series . |
| 11 | As part of the decision making process , the Commissioner may be mindful of the fact that some cases will serve as test cases . |
| 12 | The manager may be wary of the chief sales executive because he or she is the obvious choice to replace the manager , since he or she enjoys high active status with the rest of the team . |
| 13 | For this reason the owner may be guilty of theft from the possessor or controller . |
| 14 | The absence of a repetitive , frequent , easily recognisable motor pattern in the colon may be one of the reasons for the lack of data on colon motor activity in paediatric patients . |
| 15 | Indeed , it would seem that members of the same family who quarrel in the garden may be guilty of the offence . |
| 16 | The format may be that of a text book — with first fruit then nuts dealt with on a family group basis — but it does n't read as one . |
| 17 | Our studies suggest that the arrival of bile salts in the ileum may be one of the factors that stimulate the postprandial release of PYY , although the peptide does not seem to inhibit motility locally . |
| 18 | Secretaries and Research Assistants ; notes that the Register includes information on , amongst others provided with access passes , the proprietor of private psychiatric nursing and residential homes , employees of political and economic consultancies , international law firms , company directors , representatives of parliamentary lobbying organisations ( including Research and Information Services , Westminster Ltd. , Chelgate Public Relations Ltd. , Taylor Steingberg Associates , Westminster Communications , Decision Makers Ltd. , Charles Barker Public Affairs and others ) , a parliamentary researcher for parliamentary agents , a Lloyds underwriter and the Managing Director of Charles Barker Watney and Powell ; and urges the Leader of the House to place a Motion on the Order Paper to facilitate publication so that the public may be aware of who has such privileged access , and why . ] |
| 19 | We have also noted that the problem may be one of preventing deception . |
| 20 | The effigy may be that of the saint then , but another theory suggests that the figure is much older , originating in a pagan spirit associated with fertility and the harvest . |
| 21 | The tenant may be wary of this in case it is used by the landlord to remove the tenant ( in a buoyant market ) but any dilatoriness on the part of the landlord in reinstating where none of the supervening events applies could be seized upon by the tenant . |
| 22 | Insufficient food may be provided because of maternal disorganization and the mother may be unaware of how much the child is eating . |
| 23 | Walking boldly into a room may be indicative of a feeling of wellbeing ; on the other hand it may be conveying a mood of anger , so analysis of further cues is required to differentiate . |
| 24 | Thus , a person may be conscious of , for example , family and friendship relationships , or membership of institutional groups , but he/she is not fully aware at any point of the multiple web of ( mainly informal ) relationships that constitute a ‘ social network ’ . |