Example sentences of "perhaps [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the South-west , Exeter became a major centre of cloth exports from the 1490s , and by the early sixteenth century some of the smaller Devon towns were also active in the trade , this perhaps contributing to the later growth of West Country shipping activity . |
| 2 | It was impossible to be sure whether these were new recruits to the Krishnapur field , perhaps freed from the victorious siege of the feringhees somewhere else on the plain , or simply men who had deserted during the rains returning now to finish the job . |
| 3 | The price alterations are a study in themselves , an example being the First Return from Craven Arms to Eaton , the original fare perhaps dating from the last century , crossed out and altered by some unfortunate clerk , by gas light , with a fine nib pen and a bottle of railway ink. , round about 1915 . |
| 4 | The developmental stage follows , when maladaptive learning and abnormal family communication patterns may each perhaps contribute to the young person 's vulnerability to schizophrenia . |
| 5 | Perhaps hindered by the unflattering acoustic of the concert hall , the result was all too often lost in a welter of sound and over-stressed consonants with all the control of a recalcitrant Sunday school outing . |
| 6 | It is possible that Storr continued the concern , Fogelberg perhaps acting as the sleeping partner . |
| 7 | Please will you send me ( perhaps enclosed with the next statement ) a new book of vouchers ? |
| 8 | But Louisa remained forgotten until the discovery of that suitcase , perhaps sold at the original auction as part of a job lot . |
| 9 | On his first sea-voyage , as the ship lay in the harbour of Las Palomas on its way to Santa Barbara , he had woken to the sound of words in his ear perhaps inspired by the strange familiarity of the house of Los Xicales , glimpsed from the ship , perhaps indeed a prophecy that he would meet the girl of his memory in that very house . |
| 10 | erm there was a time , for instance , when we had members of parliament who were gentlemen of means , perhaps , and who did not need to draw salaries , erm and it was erm perhaps a gentleman amateur job , but it 's all changed totally now and now we recognise that erm to be a national politician is a career and erm it is a career which is perhaps rewarded at the going rate . |
| 11 | Criteria would need to be established for the provision of grant perhaps based on the Standard Man Day requirement of the farm . |
| 12 | Legends about the Babylonian and Persian period were revived — or perhaps invented for the first time — to encourage faithfulness to the Mosaic Law in the new conditions . |
| 13 | With these species , go for calmer water ( perhaps opting for the air-powered foam filter ) and consider planting natural plants in pots , or at least add a layer of Duckweed , Azolla , or other floating plant at the surface to encourage bubble nesting in Gouramis . |
| 14 | Such judgements are supposed to be true or false in a fairly straightforward way , and to be testable by empirical enquiry or perhaps appeal to the common experience of the human race . |
| 15 | But current usage tends to be more precise , perhaps influenced by the philosophical meaning . |
| 16 | Perhaps influenced by the parachuting entrance he had by then made in the stage musical Billy , Crawford appeared from the heavens , lowered by a wire and dressed angelically , complete with wings — and beret . |
| 17 | Bushes sagged loosely beneath it ; and the masonry at the crown of the arch showed paler than on either curve , as though it had been exposed to the air longer , perhaps concealed by the sheltering broom . |
| 18 | One such association was with R.A.F. Medmenham , the origins of which perhaps date to the early part of the last War when Danesfield House at Medmenham was taken over by the R.A.F. as its photographic unit , although the first reference in the Minutes is October 1953 . |
| 19 | And then came the bier , its front draped with a shawl to indicate that it carried a woman , which perhaps accounted for the general meagreness of the proceedings . |
| 20 | The compartment gave only an oblique view of the altar , which perhaps accounted for the distinct murmur of conversation behind the grille . |
| 21 | Yet talk to any established composer nowadays , and the likelihood is that he or she is about to be embroiled in some kind of operatic project , perhaps planned for the middle-distant future ( timescales are necessarily generous for opera ) but nevertheless fully engaged in the kind of musical thinking that three decades ago would have beyond the wildest dreams for all but the most exclusive , established few — Benjamin Britten and Tippett in Britain , Hans Werner Henze on the Continent . |
| 22 | Perhaps come for the first time . |
| 23 | I think that these inflated ideas perhaps come with the old language of the church , and if you 're going to do that well then , all hail to you and er presumably you mean it if you 've gone there . |
| 24 | From the answers a narrative history can be written , and perhaps published in the local press or parish magazine , full credit ( with photographs ) being given to the people who provided all the information . |
| 25 | If there is no local museum , there may be a professional archaeologist in the area , perhaps working for the local authority . |