Example sentences of "it was perhaps [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was perhaps with the expectation that food rioting sometimes secured short-term remedy that the eighteenth-century crowd resorted to it so frequently . |
| 2 | It was perhaps as a member of Gloucester 's retinue that he fought at Bannockburn in June 1314 , where Gloucester was killed ; and his performance in the battle , for which he was later rewarded with land worth 100 marks a year , may have brought him to Edward II 's notice . |
| 3 | Above all , however , it was perhaps in the field of economic planning that the failure of the planning movement to fulfil its ambition is most clear . |
| 4 | However , during our visit to India he had been constantly with us , and in Jaipur I had experienced a gratifying sense of shared adventure ; but it was perhaps in the camp where we went each year from the Legation for an eagerly awaited ten days that I remember him most vividly . |
| 5 | It was perhaps in the spirit of reconciliation that he became friendly with a policeman responsible for supervising the Vietnamese in France , Louis Arnoux . |