Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] perhaps [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or counsel may suggest , again with the very greatest respect , that a certain decision may perhaps be reconsidered if the point arises again before a court having power to overrule it ; meanwhile , it can be distinguished on the facts before the present court . |
| 2 | Management accounts may perhaps be viewed as the natural development from the financial accounts and cost accounts , and in fact draw on both . |
| 3 | The argument was advanced that a form of welfare payment should perhaps be made available to those who happen to have been born in national parks ( as opposed to those who chose to move there ) if job and housing opportunities have been restricted by conservationist planning policies . |
| 4 | In English pubs the time between two and three on a Sunday afternoon should perhaps be named ‘ The Ferrers Hour ’ . |
| 5 | Two other directions taken in the 19th Century by the theory of groups should perhaps be mentioned . |
| 6 | Critics of the power exercised by parties may perhaps be reminded that they are at liberty to join the party , of their choice , to be active in it and to use there such influence as they can acquire . |
| 7 | According to a Pakistani commentary , Shahi appeared to be suggesting that once the neutrality of the area was ensured by the regional states pursuing a policy of strict non-alignment , the superpowers could perhaps be persuaded to work towards some sort of mutual accommodation . |
| 8 | These contradictory data could perhaps be explained by different viruses having a role in different geographical areas . |
| 9 | For instance , the HEIGHT of 40 stitches may be 80 millimetres , but the WIDTH will perhaps be 128 millimetres . |
| 10 | Reflective thinking can perhaps be summarized by a quotation from the philosopher Basil Mitchell . |
| 11 | However , the task of transferring the central focus from the child to the older relative has not yet been attempted , and this chapter can perhaps be viewed as a small beginning to such a process . |
| 12 | The value of Gerry Queen to Crystal Palace can perhaps be measured by the fact that he was easily our top scorer in Division One between 1969 and 1973 , with 24 top-flight goals , while his 1– strikes in 1969–71 represented a quarter of our total tally in those two seasons . |
| 13 | The problem of aesthetic modernism can perhaps be best approached via the time-tested framework of the sociology of modernized . |
| 14 | Anderson and Roberts can perhaps be seen as offering us different facets of essentially a similar situation , where feelings of affection and concepts of duty are taken into calculations about mutual advantage based on material considerations . |
| 15 | Competition fighting can perhaps be likened to a game of chess ; a player only improves by continually playing against another chess player better than himself . |
| 16 | Alison Campbell 's house-to-house collectors had another good year , and all were agreed that this generous response might perhaps be attributed in part to Christian Aid 's TV advertisment . |
| 17 | ‘ If our strangeness offends you , then a woman of your own kind might perhaps be found , ’ Mei Ling offered tentatively . |
| 18 | It is a paradox upon which a Tory may perhaps be permitted one parting reflexion . |
| 19 | We are sorry that we can not prove a cause and effect conclusively , but suspect that the hemiparesis could be a reaction related to sumatriptan and suggest that intra-cerebral binding sites of sumatriptan should perhaps be studied more closely . |
| 20 | To some extent this is true , since Michael Chisholm 's research has shown that subsistence land use results in settlements being not more than 1 kilometre ( ½ mile ) or so from most of their land ( Fig 59 ) and hence settlements should perhaps be expected to be 1–2 kilometres ( ½-1 mile ) apart . |
| 21 | This is exactly the nature of the ambiguity in : ( 36 ) the façade was plastered When ( 36 ) is taken as a " state " adjective the most appropriate question would perhaps be : ( 37 ) what was the façade like ? |
| 22 | The ‘ City of Culture ’ accolade will perhaps be an opportunity for the people of Dublin to howl in protest at what the Dublin Corporation and the Irish government have done to the city . |
| 23 | The Tibetan Plateau can perhaps be viewed as the ‘ pressure gauge ’ of Asia , with the pressure applied by the Indian continent against Eurasia maintaining its considerable elevation . |
| 24 | The difference between the two contextual effects can perhaps be approached initially by considering two corresponding ways in which a word form , in a single context , may be open to more than one interpretation . |
| 25 | We are in close touch with our allies on this matter to see the ways by which assistance can perhaps be given , and contracts can be placed , for valuable work to be done which would occupy such scientists , in addition to the part that they might also play more directly in some of the work involved in the dismantling and disabling programme of that massive nuclear arsenal . |
| 26 | Three motives can perhaps be identified for the creation of special agencies in Britain , although there are of course dangers in taking ostensible motives as real ones , to create an effective separate and accountable ‘ management system ’ to reduce political ‘ interference ’ and to provide for the direct representation of special interests . |
| 27 | She may have been aged as young as 12 , the legal age of maturity for women ( her parents ' marriage can perhaps be dated to 829 ) and so about seven years younger than Charles . |
| 28 | After that , I thought my support could perhaps be less , that I had done the work . |
| 29 | The difference in phosphatidylethanolamine values between the two patient groups could perhaps be related to the type of cellular rarefaction typical of chronic atrophic gastritis and to the difference in quantity of inflammatory infiltrate between the two groups . |
| 30 | The more lurid and alarmist versions may perhaps be discounted , but they have fed the popular distrust of the use of artificial chemicals in agriculture and this , however much farmers may deplore the fact , has become an important factor in the politics of environmentalism . |