Example sentences of "may [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For grass roots workers , the findings are important as may are worried about how to intervene in cases of physical abuse , the stress involved and the fact that it may be too complex . |
| 2 | JUST when you may been ready to despair , it seems that this country of ours may have found something of its heart , or perhaps its soul . |
| 3 | You may have been in they may been in the infants when |
| 4 | Any contributions may be edited . |
| 5 | Any contributions may be edited . |
| 6 | No part of this publication may be reproduced , stored in a retrieval system , or transmitted , in any form or by any means , electronic , mechanical , photocopying , recording or otherwise , without the prior permission in writing of the publisher . |
| 7 | He will advise you on the inheritance tax your estate might incur and ways in which this may be reduced . |
| 8 | Already more children may be dying with AIDS than from famine and 11 million are carrying the virus HIV , 1 in 250 of all adults worldwide . |
| 9 | Ultimately death itself may be seen as a release . |
| 10 | They have not been charged or tried and may be imprisoned because of their nationality , in retaliation for the Ugandan authorities alleged support of the armed opposition group , the Rwandese Patriotic Front . |
| 11 | The organization has already adopted two of the prisoners as prisoners of conscience and believes that some 80 others may be POCs . |
| 12 | Amnesty warmly welcomed the release of prisoners of conscience and the repeal of certain articles , but has urged that the legislation be extended to include reform or repeal of further articles of the Turkish Penal Code , under which POCs may be held . |
| 13 | This sentence may be added to the new one-year term . |
| 14 | Also , attorneys may be putting themselves up for huge amounts of emotional strain , knowing that their clients stand to lose more than their liberty . |
| 15 | Articles in magazines are less certainly described as criticism , for their main topics may be personalities or history , and art may be only a small part of the writers ' account . |
| 16 | Articles in magazines are less certainly described as criticism , for their main topics may be personalities or history , and art may be only a small part of the writers ' account . |
| 17 | Some writing which is called art criticism will be helpful , some will not ; other writing will also be valuable , although whether it can be described as art criticism may be disputable . |
| 18 | This comparison has fazed her , as she only knows about Lee Krasner as the widow of Jackson Pollock ; so the library visit is intended to check out reproductions of Lee Krasner 's work , to see if she has to concede that her friend may be right . |
| 19 | This may be by way of theory , or on more matter-of-fact lines about technique or such questions as composition . |
| 20 | A teacher 's list for analysing pictures may be something like that of the American educationalist Thomas Munro : first impressions of the picture as a whole , line , light and dark , colour , mass , space , unity of design . |
| 21 | The advice offered here is that a reader should ignore what category of writing a book or article may come under , since helpful art criticism may be found in all sorts of sources . |
| 22 | He may be taken as an example of a first type of critic , the advocate . |
| 23 | A second type of critic may be called the progressive . |
| 24 | The explanation of the kind of art shown in this exhibition may be sought in the deep-seated and persistent interest which human beings have in the fantastic , the irrational , the spontaneous , the marvellous , the enigmatic , and the dreamlike . |
| 25 | A traditional critic may be a practising artist ; if so , there is an excellent chance that any technical assessment included in a piece of criticism will be thorough . |
| 26 | If he finds it necessary to copy , to study the work of other painters , or any way to seek for help out of himself , he may be sure that he has received nothing of that inspiration . |
| 27 | As to genius , ‘ Reynolds ’ opinion was that Genius may be taught & that all Pretense to Inspiration is a Lie & a Deceit , to say the least of it . |
| 28 | A theoretician is well prepared to consider what the most apt questions about works of art may be . |
| 29 | A different sort of response to art is to use it as a means of learning more about the society in which it was produced ; this may be felt by a theoretician to be more important than to know the artist 's intentions , which , it can be argued , are determined by society . |
| 30 | Or , the effect of a painting may be compared with those of other means of communication , such as photography , film or television . |