Example sentences of "may be " in BNC.

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1 Any contributions may be edited .
2 Any contributions may be edited .
3 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 .
4 He will advise you on the inheritance tax your estate might incur and ways in which this may be reduced .
5 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 .
6 Ultimately death itself may be seen as a release .
7 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 .
8 The organization has already adopted two of the prisoners as prisoners of conscience and believes that some 80 others may be POCs .
9 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 .
10 This sentence may be added to the new one-year term .
11 Also , attorneys may be putting themselves up for huge amounts of emotional strain , knowing that their clients stand to lose more than their liberty .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 This may be by way of theory , or on more matter-of-fact lines about technique or such questions as composition .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 He may be taken as an example of a first type of critic , the advocate .
20 A second type of critic may be called the progressive .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 A theoretician is well prepared to consider what the most apt questions about works of art may be .
26 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 .
27 Or , the effect of a painting may be compared with those of other means of communication , such as photography , film or television .
28 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 .
29 In writings about the Renaissance , its beginning may be seen to waver from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century .
30 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 .
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