Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] perhaps the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the building is of more or less one period , it is still nonetheless a higgledy-piggledy place to find one 's way about in , as though the builders had not planned it as a whole but acted on whims and perhaps the need to accommodate an expanding family . |
| 2 | It seems likely that they received support from parties within the Uí Néill territory in Ireland , even from among the Dalriadic Scots and perhaps the Picts , anxious to have the bellicose Ecgfrith replaced by a more pacific figure . |
| 3 | In fact , it was about the time that David and I both auditioned for Hair and we were both turned down which I thought was quite funny because it seemed that just about everyone else in London got the part , but we were very much the kind of solo singers and perhaps the wrong type . |
| 4 | New observatories to spot neutrinos arriving from space are being built in Italian mountains , Canadian mines and perhaps the depths of the Pacific . |
| 5 | The deep-rooted need to express grief is part of all religions and perhaps the Protestant churches should see these notices as a cry for help . |
| 6 | When the Prince moved to a small lodge on the edge of the Steine in the 1780s fashion followed , and Brighton over the next fifty years provided perhaps the ultimate example of the marked contrast between attempts at a classical social order and a barely restrained chaos whose uneasy juxtaposition opened wider chasms in late Georgian society . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've got lots of favourite moments from those days but perhaps the best is the vision of Kenneth Williams singing one of the dirtiest songs I have ever heard to sunbathers on the beach at Rye — which was doubling for the desert in Carry On — Follow That Camel , ’ he recalls . |
| 8 | The regulation of aviation comprises many different activities but perhaps the most significant is the drawing up of a set of rules and regulations and the establishment of an organisation to ensure their enforcement . |
| 9 | Predictably they will tell the adviser that they can not rehouse all those families and perhaps the tenant can contact the police . |
| 10 | It is in regard to erosion rates that perhaps the most dramatic progress has been made and in addition to world patterns of discharge , Walling and Webb ( 1983 ) have now reviewed earlier attempts to portray world patterns of sediment yield , some of which conflicted quite significantly , and have provided a revised map of global sediment yields based upon data from nearly 1500 measuring stations and pertinent to sediment yields from basins of 1000 to 10,000 km 2 in area . |
| 11 | ‘ The market is a dynamic one and it seems to prove that there was a latent demand for sea travel , but the prices or perhaps the product were not right . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ My mother and Tatyana Kessner were my early teachers but perhaps the greatest influence was Lev Naumov , a man with a truly wonderful sense of musical fantasy and imagination . |
| 13 | The method used for climbing steep ice which employs the two forward facing points and perhaps the first two of the downward ones . |