Example sentences of "perhaps [adj] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This is an extraordinary situation , perhaps unique in the entire spectrum of modern historical research . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |