Example sentences of "perhaps [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps some of the total expenditure on deprivation payments could be reserved by the family health services authorities for appeals , providing that the money was ‘ ring fenced . ’ |
| 2 | perhaps some of the middle-class verbosity found by Labov could be eradicated in this way . |
| 3 | And diagnosis is very important , as a psychiatrist again , training our medical students , we are trying to do a lot of education along that line because perhaps some of the older GP 's , along the way , have not recognised the importance of this . |
| 4 | It is perhaps doubtful in the present climate that the aircraft could have been kept in the air beyond the end of this year , even if the VA has still been in a position to influence affairs . |
| 5 | He added : ‘ The sane thing to do would be to take perhaps half of the total sum , make a determined effort to find every surviving POW , and share the money equally with them . ’ |
| 6 | This is perhaps symptomatic of a continuing problem with the user/user needs approach to financial reporting theory : we are still not clear that substantial numbers of users exist . |
| 7 | Inside our house there were stone floors , coal fires , oil lamps , but I do n't remember ever feeling any sense of cold or discomfort , except when I got chilblains — a seasonal occurrence ( and one which Dally cites , along with other circulatory disorders , as common among anorexics and perhaps indicative of a certain proneness ) . |
| 8 | There he remained through nearly nine years of sharp ministerial changes , an unprecedented term , perhaps indicative of a unique standing in the civil service but lack of personal political clout . |
| 9 | Perhaps symbolic of the whole spirit of 1916 was the divine Sarah Bernhardt , one leg amputated , but still stumping the boards with a wooden leg . |
| 10 | This is an extraordinary situation , perhaps unique in the entire spectrum of modern historical research . |
| 11 | It has championed the best artists from the Soviet Union ; it has supported feminist art , some of it theoretically difficult and perhaps recalcitrant to a wide audience ; it has staged recuperative exhibitions such as the Independent Group . |
| 12 | On fairly conservative criteria this parliamentary force numbered perhaps thirty-five in the first half of the 1790s , twenty in 1806 and between thirty-five and sixty in the parliaments from 1812 to 1831 , dropping to about thirty in the reformed parliament of 1832 . |
| 13 | This and his personal worries , which must have seemed without issue , were perhaps responsible for a certain reliance , though by no means dependence , on alcohol . |
| 14 | There are thousands of buildings that despite being interesting and attractive — and perhaps important on a local scale — are not ‘ listable ’ in themselves ; that is to say , they are not of sufficient architectural or historic interest to merit individual protection . |
| 15 | Indeed , by the thirties his family was almost certainly the largest landowner in Iran , owning perhaps one-sixth of the usable land , Apart from the , Rexa Shah undertook very little effective agricultural reform . |
| 16 | For soon after descending from their international express at Zurich 's main station , new arrivals may be standing on the bridge where Zurich 's river , the Limmat , joins its lake , the Zurichsee , looking up at green fields and trees , at ancient towers , or perhaps down-lake to a wide expanse of blue water criss-crossed by the wakes of pleasure steamers , decorated by the white sails of holidaying yachtsmen . |
| 17 | It was perhaps more of a confederal scheme than a federal one . |
| 18 | The result is perhaps one of the best insider looks at Concorde yet available . |
| 19 | I think wind power is perhaps one of the alternative energy sources which is erm nearest to being able to be applied and utilised immediately . |
| 20 | Out here , that meant the Maniax were back , or perhaps one of the minor biker gangcults , Satan 's Stormtroopers , the Apple Valley Hogfreakers . |
| 21 | Ophiocymbium cavernosum is a little known ophiuroid previously only recorded from east of Kerguelen Islands , Southern Ocean , its discovery in the Bay of Biscay marks an exciting extension of range perhaps accountable to the considerable depth at which this species is found . |
| 22 | The sedentary farmer succeeded the migrant shepherd as the agent by whom the soil of Spain was squandered ; by the early nineteenth century cereals occupied perhaps three-quarters of the cultivable land , an imbalance between crop and animal husbandry as pernicious as that which prevailed in the heyday of wool . |
| 23 | Cos otherwise , I can tell you what the alternative is , the alternative is the men in grey suits which is a equally arbitrary process and it can as actually concentrate power in the hands of a very small number of people o sometimes perhaps unrepresentative of the parliamentary party . |
| 24 | Stratification in the socialist states takes the form of ‘ an organizational society whose complexity of horizontal and vertical divisions is perhaps comparable to a large-scale company with its many branches , divisions , chains of command , departments , occupational categories , functional units and various interests , all of which intersect formal boundaries . |
| 25 | The invading army was evidently homeward bound and perhaps disinclined for a renewed engagement , which may explain why Cadafael ( HB ch. 65 ) and Oethelwald ( HE 111 , 24 ) withdrew before battle was joined . |
| 26 | By the 1930s at least two-thirds of public schoolboys were circumcised , ( compared to only one-tenth of working-class boys ) , and by then perhaps one-third of the male population was circumcised , with very little medical justification . |