Example sentences of "may be only [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The small firm needling the big multinational may be only a nuisance for the time being , but if it latches on to a new and successful technology and makes all the right first-mover investments it may be tomorrow 's market leader .
2 Like a small pale Peregrine , of which it may be only a race , but much paler and more rufous , with crown and nape very rufous. 15–18 in. ( 38–45 cm ) .
3 The problem this creates for Christianity is that a part of the turning to faith in our generation may be only a reflection of the psychological and sociological undercurrents of our time .
4 That may be only a symbol , but it is an important one .
5 This year America 's deficit and Germany 's surplus are forecast to be less than half as big , as a percentage of GNP , as they were at their peak ; Japan 's surplus may be only a quarter of its peak level .
6 The idea that speech coding in memory may be only a subset of motor memory processes , including sign language behaviour , opens up a new possibility for psychological research .
7 It requires a quantity , which may be only a gram or so , of cocaine hydrochloride , bicarbonate of soda , containers such as jam jars , glass tubing , stirrers and a source of heat .
8 With luck it may be only a matter of time .
9 ‘ It may be only a matter of minutes before they break through . ’
10 It may be only a matter of time before goals trigger outbreaks of mass aerobics and the odd square dance .
11 I may be only a lassie but I can assure you I 'm quite capable . ’
12 He believes that agreement may be only a month or two away , however any deal is not necessarily exclusive .
13 The lack of liquid refreshment during a two hour meeting could be seen as a lack of courtesy and , if this occurs again , it is suggested that a tactful reference to the need for a drink be made during the meeting — the result may be only a glass of water , but that is better than nothing !
14 As has been seen clearly from the English and Welsh experience , the initial sales of subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group may be only the beginning of a long and complicated saga .
15 Although Newby and his colleagues have demonstrated the dogged hold of traditional rural society on the levers of power , the changes foreseen by Pahl and Thorns , and documented by Ambrose , Connell , Radford and Pacione , may be only the foretaste of a much greater change in rural society , if the development of rural communities in California is a guide to the future as it has been so often in the past .
16 Although we may find a particularly explicit conceptualization of the autonomous self in certain contemporary societies , this may be only an aspect of the more general separation and autonomy of concepts evident in modernist theory .
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