Example sentences of "perhaps [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morse looked at her now — perhaps properly for the first time . |
| 2 | My sister , younger than me , with children of her own and perhaps thereby with a clearer measure of what we lacked , reminds me of a mother who never played with us , whose eruptions from irritation into violence were the most terrifying of experiences , and she is there , the figure of nightmares , though I do find it difficult to think about in this way . |
| 3 | We want to turn state companies into shareholding companies by moving perhaps on to an Italian model of state participation in industry , so we can create a situation where companies would be owned by a combination of the state , private shareholders and foreign investors . |
| 4 | Despite the striving for the autonomy or consumption activities , resulting in an exaggerated separation from business interests , in some respects Bourdieu 's major source of analogy tends to fall back , not on to an economic , but perhaps on to an economistic model . |
| 5 | In short , if there can be any meaningful talk of " reduction " here at all , it is perhaps only of a possible reduction of properties to ( non-mental and logically independent ) relations , not vice versa . |
| 6 | If you do medical negligence work the employment of a nurse , perhaps only on a part-time basis , can save hours of wasted time and be very cost effective . |
| 7 | ‘ And in any case high principles are n't the kind of things one notices at a cocktail party — or perhaps only in a negative way , as when somebody drinks tomato juice rather than gin . ’ |
| 8 | Perhaps only in the next life . |
| 9 | The jump instructions ( b ) and ( c ) in Figure 3.11 contain an operation code field ( perhaps together with a subsidiary information field specifying the jump condition ) , and an operand field ( perhaps together with an addressing mode field ) to specify the location to which control is to be transferred if the condition is true ( that is , if the jump is successful ) . |
| 10 | The most difficult theoretical surveys are those which seem to promise to answer difficult questions about art in general , perhaps especially in the modern world . |
| 11 | It will be evident that sexual law is at its most convoluted , in relation to social work , in the areas of work with children and ( perhaps especially in the residential field ) the handicapped . |
| 12 | Similar treatment can be found in works on great monuments and schemes , perhaps especially in the Italian Renaissance , when such projects as the Sistine Chapel or Tintoretto 's Scuola di San Rocco achieved a personal artistic unity of the highest standard . |
| 13 | By the turn of the century , the majority of women will probably be entitled to the basic pension in their own right , though perhaps not at the full amount . |
| 14 | The feeling swept over me that I had truly left Darlington Hall behind , and I must confess I did feel a slight sense of alarm — a sense aggravated by the feeling that I was perhaps not on the correct road at all , but speeding off in totally the wrong direction into a wilderness . |
| 15 | You lie low for a while , and you disperse a handful of coins , singly , perhaps not to the best advantage , but still it 's all clear profit . |
| 16 | If they are a hit , to use a word perhaps not of the big band era , it is probable they will be booked monthly . |
| 17 | Perhaps not for a seasoned traveller like Byron , but for most people there are still thousands of miles to cover and hundreds of countries to explore . |
| 18 | WALTER SISULU will have cause in the coming days to reflect , perhaps not for the first time , that stone walls do not a prison make . |
| 19 | Perhaps not in the political lifetime of most hon. Members but at some future stage , we may see a Community that stretches from one end of Europe to the other , for which I for one will wish to work . |
| 20 | A similar trend in zooplankton abundance is apparent in the western North Pacific — although perhaps not in the central North Pacific . |
| 21 | Although perhaps not in the strictest sense of the word ‘ beautiful ’ , the American girl had a very pleasing appearance , and despite her height and strong build , an attractive feminine figure . |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps not in the ordinary way . ’ |
| 23 | On the other hand , a price lower than this would hasten the decay of the falling firms , and slacken the growth of the rising firms ; and on the whole diminish production : and a rise or fall of price would affect in like manner though perhaps not in an equal degree those great joint-stock companies which often stagnate , but seldom die . |
| 24 | The round-faced , round-skulled head tops a body on which the skirt is almost a cylinder ; and the cylindrical skirt reappears even more emphatically in a magnificent over life-size marble , now headless , dedicated a little later , perhaps already in the second quarter of the century , by one Cheramyes to Hera on Samos ( fig. 28 ) . |
| 25 | This has not in itself created a culture and ideology of consumerism ; for these have been in place for at least the last century and perhaps longer in the First World and among comprador classes elsewhere . |
| 26 | The analysis of sin that occupies much of the second half of the book and which , perhaps fittingly from a literary point of view , distorts the balanced analytic framework of the role and nature of contemplative life in the first half , is frozen in a definitive icon in which the body of death is horriby manifested with a head of pride , back of covetousness ( worldly things that the anchoress turns away from ) , a heart of envy , arms of anger , a belly of greed , genitals of lechery and feet of despairing sloth which find it difficult to stir themselves to good works ( prayer and meditation for the anchoress ) ( 85.355a — 6a. – 154 – 5 ) . |
| 27 | Fixed-sum versus running-account : an obvious distinction between credit for a fixed amount of money ( such as HP , fixed loans of money ) and credit , perhaps up to a fixed ceiling , which may fluctuate up and down depending on what the borrower draws or pays in ( such as shop budget accounts , credit cards , bank overdrafts ) . |
| 28 | And it 's perhaps up to the new civilian C P O to go to the likes of Mick and say I ca n't do this , I have not been trained to do it yet , until I have been trained to do it perhaps P C should continue using his skills . |
| 29 | But though this hope might be enough for some who were actually to lift themselves out of the working class , and perhaps also for a greater number who never got beyond dreaming of success as they read Samuel Smiles 's Self-Help ( 1859 ) or similar handbooks , it was perfectly evident that most workers would remain workers all their lives , and indeed that the economic system required them to do so . |
| 30 | Derecognition , a word that is new to me and perhaps also to the English language , can be achieved only if the amount of benefit and risk retained by the seller ( not always the originator as seems to have been assumed ) is insignificant or immaterial ( on a case by case basis ) . |