Example sentences of "perhaps [prep] the [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet it is precisely at this point that students — afraid of boring us with repetition — ; search for new material , abandoning their first ideas perhaps for the rest of the piece . |
| 2 | ( Perhaps for the cost of a few ‘ rescue ’ digs , in fact , which by their random nature all too often tend to be repetitive or fragmentary in their findings and which further our understanding of the past less than would the establishment of evidence confirming prehistoric alignment practices . ) |
| 3 | This environmental movement today is really saying to all of us , erm in order to avoid building platforms off the coast of the United States , we are willing to risk sending our sons to the sands of the Middle East to die perhaps for the preservation of a life style , that some of us are unwilling to develop here in our own country . |
| 4 | We must please be clear about those factors which actually matter , always bearing in mind that it is for the county council in the first instance and perhaps for the panel in the second instance , to take a decision about the suppression of past migration trends . |
| 5 | They do n't want to risk a break-up — perhaps for the sake of the children , or because it suits them to be married for other reasons . |
| 6 | Lord Hunter had been unable to free himself from the idea of Meehan as a participant any more than Sir Daniel Brabin had been able to free himself from the assumption of Timothy Evans 's guilt ; neither could bring himself to admit , perhaps for the sake of the reputation of their profession , that the miscarriage of justice had been total , that Meehan as much as Evans had played no part whatever in the crime with which he had been charged . |
| 7 | Gray 's Anatomy , however , eclipsed all others , partly for its meticulous detail , partly for its emphasis on surgical anatomy , but most of all perhaps for the excellence of the illustrations , based on drawings by H. V. Carter , who assisted Gray with the dissections , and engraved by Messrs Butterworth & Heath with remarkable skill . |
| 8 | The earliest recorded work of these artists is in the shrine of These us , built or rebuilt by Cimon after he brought back the hero 's bones from Skyros in 473 ; and there is a detailed description by Pausanias of Polygnotos 's two murals in a lesche ( clubhouse ) dedicated at Delphi by the people of Knidos , perhaps after the liberation of the Asia Minor Greeks from Persia in Cimon 's campaigns , which culminated in the victory at the Eurymedon in 468 . |
| 9 | There were , broadly , two interrelated reasons for this , the first relating to Britain 's economic and Imperial difficulties , the second to the internal dissension in all three parties , a symptom perhaps of the need for a realignment of political parties . |
| 10 | The colonists of Elephantine in Egypt combined observance of the Passover and perhaps of the Sabbath with a devotion to Eshembethel and Anathbethel which my late colleague and friend Umberto Cassuto was unable to explain away . |
| 11 | It is not enough that he is ‘ helping the police with their inquiries , ’ nor that an arrest without warrant is imminent — perhaps towards the end of a siege . |
| 12 | In training though you can still have the same problem erm you know perhaps towards the end of the session you 've probably seen it as and I , I 'm guilty of it myself cos we 're trying to rap on through it as quickly as possible so we get in ya way by six o'clock or that so we break all the rules late in the day |
| 13 | I think that we should accept th that this island in which we live is in effect becoming smaller day-by-day , as it is becoming more and more open er we should accept that its population is becoming perhaps with the assistance of a little advice from myself from time-to-time , rather more mobile than it used to be and I must say that we should I think all accept and I 'm sure we do that criminals do not have any particular respect for local authority boundaries er indeed the existence of the motorway system er despite the M25 does encourage mobility of crime and criminals to a very great extent . |
| 14 | The outstanding historical and artistic significance of the costume makes it an obvious target for acquisition by a British museum : the possibility of a serious bid by the Victoria and Albert Museum , perhaps with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund can not be ruled out . |
| 15 | Exports to western countries increased from US$ 6.1 billion to nearly US$7.3 billion ; the number of joint ventures from 1972 to 1989 was ( in round figures ) 1,000 , whereas in 1990 alone the number of new joint ventures reached 4,000 perhaps with the help of a revival of commercial law the ‘ tortuous and costly road of socialism which leads from capitalism to capitalism ’ is made smoother and swifter . |
| 16 | Perhaps with the taint of a half-smile they named the camps of Mordovia after the pretty , sun-dappled forests around Moscow where they took their family picnics and holidays . |
| 17 | It can order a private supplier to provide these services , perhaps with the carrot of an explicit bribe or subsidy , or it can directly take over production to run the industry in the interests of the nation as a whole . |
| 18 | In the meantime counsellors have to rely on the officers at the scene to specifically ask victims if they want help , perhaps with the use of a leaflet . |
| 19 | the authority make financial provision to enable teachers to visit schools outside the ILEA ( perhaps along the lines of the West Glamorgan Teacher Fellowship Scheme — see Reid , 1985b ) |
| 20 | Furniture and furnishings in Parma show a strong French influence , too , being Parmesan adaptations of the Empire style ; and the local dialect has numerous words which are purely French ( although these must have been imported at an earlier time , perhaps under the Bourbons in the eighteenth century ) — armoir for armadio ( a wardrobe ) , vin for vino , boucho for tappo ( a cork ) , artichaut for carciofo ( an artichoke ) , and so on . |
| 21 | Its secular form began to die after the middle of the century and the geistlicher Gesang with tenor cantus firmus was supplanted , perhaps under the influence of the Calvinist psalms , by the so-called Kantionalsatz — melody in the highest part , the others note-against-note — to encourage congregational singing . |
| 22 | That the therapeutic use of music in the Church 's ministry of healing be further investigated , perhaps under the auspices of the Churches ' Council for Health and Healing ( 512–513 ) . |
| 23 | Thus the same designer could be working with different mosaicists , perhaps under the guidance of the client . |
| 24 | As the shuttle dropped towards the station 's central bulk , Ace found it even more disturbing that she could identify , nestling between ridges of ruched titanium or perhaps in the centre of an ammonite-like coil , a few of the features that would be expected on the outside of a space station . |
| 25 | When explaining the change , the society says that administrative costs must be balanced against receipts — a fair comment perhaps in the case of a small charity . |
| 26 | Saturday saw the annual Sports Day : no records were broken , except perhaps in the case of the rainfall . |
| 27 | The roots of all this , it was agreed , lay deep in British history — perhaps in the moral nihilism of the 1960s , perhaps in the collectivism of the 1940s , perhaps in the decline of the entrepreneurial spirit in the late Victorian period , perhaps even in the many centuries of geographical isolation and freedom from foreign occupation behind the barrier of sea power . |
| 28 | Perhaps in the spirit of the man threatened with bankruptcy who throws a lavish party to confuse his creditors , Napoleon III , confronted with this array of difficulties , organized a second spectacular Great Exhibition in Paris for the summer of 1867 . |
| 29 | The whole flat , and the garden , within a very short space of time , was wired for sound and you would come in , perhaps in the middle of the night , and fall flat on your face over and leads and God knows what . |
| 30 | Although desfoutre is a perfectly proper grammatical construction , it is , of course , in real-world terms impossible to be " unfucked " , except perhaps in the mind of a naive woman who imagines that a second foutre can annul or return the first … or does she ? |