Example sentences of "perhaps [prep] the [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The study of such curves , originating perhaps in the Ancient Greek spiral , can be traced in modern times from the work of Giuseppe Peano in 1890 and Helge von Koch in 1904 to Mandelbrot 's book , Fractals : Form , Chance and Dimension ( 1977 ) . |
| 2 | Historically the word may come from one of several sources , but given its apparent near-restriction to the Welsh border counties , its origin lies perhaps in the Old Welsh Cai , the Middle Welsh Kei , and the Latin Caius , a common praenomen among the Romans . |
| 3 | It does , however , almost certainly increase the amount of time spent by the agency in working on a given account , without necessarily making the results any better , except perhaps in the very general sense of keeping the client organization happy . |
| 4 | After the non-fictional Sportsman 's Sketches , Fathers and Children is Turgenev 's best book , and the best thing in it , apart perhaps from the bereaved old couple at the end , is the sensitive give-and-take marriage of its hero 's idealism to his scepticism , a questing , generous idealism and an undestroying scepticism . |
| 5 | Perhaps to the distant yellow castle ? |
| 6 | Due partly to the propagation and acceptance of various theories of development , ( e.g. Coale & Hoover 1958 and Ehrlich et al 1973 ) and perhaps to the direct pragmatic experience of government , states have seen fit to try and persuade , induce or coerce the people to undertake new patterns of reproduction or agricultural practice . |
| 7 | Their date is unsure , perhaps around the mid sixth century , and it seems likely that it was near that time that Greek sculptors did learn to hollow-cast bronze on a large scale . |