Example sentences of "may [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | there is every reason to welcome such studies , though a reader hoping for judgements about quality may be disappointed by a theoretical writer 's greater stress on interpretation . |
| 32 | In writings about the Renaissance , its beginning may be seen to waver from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century . |
| 33 | The imperative for a writer of a chronological survey is that a defined period of time is covered ; this may be linked with a theme , such as the history of styles in Gombrich 's case , but it is unlikely to be linked solely with a spotlight on quality . |
| 34 | As art criticism , it has the merit of making a judgement , though description and interpretation may be meagre . |
| 35 | In an art museum , the works may be described from room to room , whether in a book or on a sound guide . |
| 36 | The tourist may find guide books excellent value , but an armchair traveller may be better served in other ways . |
| 37 | For the reader , however , an art defined as national , made as cohesive and marketable as possible , may be less than convincing as an entity ; it may be that within a survey or an anthology there are just a limited number of interesting and attractive works . |
| 38 | For the reader , however , an art defined as national , made as cohesive and marketable as possible , may be less than convincing as an entity ; it may be that within a survey or an anthology there are just a limited number of interesting and attractive works . |
| 39 | The best preliminary plan may be for the reader to open the book upright at ( the illustration ) and then go to the other side of the room , to be imposed on from a distance : it is the nearest the book can offer to the proper first encounter with the figure . |
| 40 | This observation has direct bearing on questions of authenticity , since a detail may be the way that the true can be separated from the false . |
| 41 | This may be important in assessing how well a writer illustrates an argument . |
| 42 | If comparisons are included they may be with an artist whose work is considered by the author to be inferior to the subject of the monograph . |
| 43 | Historical background is only compressed in a monograph ; biographical material may be more extensive in other sources ; the painter 's contemporaries will not receive much attention , and may be slighted . |
| 44 | Historical background is only compressed in a monograph ; biographical material may be more extensive in other sources ; the painter 's contemporaries will not receive much attention , and may be slighted . |
| 45 | Early work is often missing from an artist 's oeuvre , while student work or juvenilia may be saved only by chance or possibly by a devoted family . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | This will result in the book evading the task of art criticism altogether , though the critical views of the artist may be recorded . |
| 48 | An exception may be illustrated by a passage from a classic biography , that of John Constable by Charles Leslie . |
| 49 | The virtue of artists ' writings for the reader of criticism is that it can often serve as a touchstone for judging the worth of mediators , particularly those presenting views of what the artist intended ; what the artist said may be more to the point . |
| 50 | A recent monograph of Jacob Epstein 's memorial sculpture to the naturalist W. H. Hudson at Hyde Park Corner may be used as an example . |
| 51 | The reader may be disappointed by the standard of what is written , but unlike other sites of criticism , this can not be attributed to the form of publication , only to the limitations of the author . |
| 52 | However , the reputation of the cataloguer may be in some instances considered decisive ; the picture is by Van Gogh if it is in the book by de la faille ; a painting by Berthe Morisot needs to be approved by Bataille and Wildenstein ; an authentic work by Picasso will be found in Zervos . |
| 53 | In compensation , pictures or sculptures may be accompanied by comments from the artists . |
| 54 | A characteristic historical exhibition may be called something like ‘ The Age of Rembrandt ’ , or ‘ Shock of Recognition ; the landscape of English Romanticism and the Dutch seventeenth-century school ’ ; both of these are actual titles . |
| 55 | Individual works may be studied more carefully for a catalogue entry than ever before . |
| 56 | In several ways , then , a catalogue may be in advance of any other publications . |
| 57 | In the introduction or other essays there may be some writing which will not date , such as art criticism which documents the personal experience of the writer . |
| 58 | Some art criticism in a catalogue may be included so as to document the history of taste . |
| 59 | An undeniable attraction of an auction is the possibility that some undervalued item may be for sale . |
| 60 | In marketing a sale of rather little-known works , too , there may be some explanatory text . |