Example sentences of "[pers pn] was perhaps [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but I said that you know eighteen might be a push but I would n't be surprised if we got twelve or fourteen at that time of course we had n't actually had any education events cos the one that we scheduled has been cancelled so I was perhaps a bit naive about how many people actually turn out to these things |
| 2 | I was perhaps the only one who knew he was doing it for Duke . |
| 3 | He said his was perhaps an ‘ old-fashioned ’ view — that he did not want to see the entire world addicted to drugs , like the synthetic existence described in Brave New World — but it was an enormous leap , he thought , from ‘ smoking a little grass to that grim picture ’ . |
| 4 | For the elderly Mao , she was perhaps a useful alibi : anything which the government did which proved too unpopular was likely to be attributed to her doing . |
| 5 | Although she had pronounced likes and dislikes for the various members of her class she was perhaps the best teacher in the school , and at the end of four years she had hardly any failures in the final examinations . |
| 6 | The Mirror Group 's decision to sell it to him was perhaps the greatest miscalculation in post-war press history . |
| 7 | It was perhaps a coincidence that chairman of the IEE meeting was RS Sandell who in the 1970s , with SM Edwardson , developed the BBC 's medium-wave Carfax system that was later aborted . |
| 8 | It was perhaps a foregone conclusion that he would go into the family firm founded by his great-grandfather , John Cadbury , in 1824 , although he had two tempting offers from outside industry when he had completed his degree . |
| 9 | It was perhaps a strategy for dissuading him from coming round so often . |
| 10 | It was perhaps a bit thicker than she would have liked , but the weight was about right . |
| 11 | It was perhaps a wrong comparison . |
| 12 | It was perhaps a little early to be certain , but he thought they were probably the best things he had ever done . |
| 13 | It was perhaps a coward 's answer , and he was honest enough to admit it . |
| 14 | Although as I said , it was perhaps a mistake , erm , both classes produced excellent papers , that th it was a first class paper , in the other class and so was yours . |
| 15 | It the impetus came I think largely from feminism and it was perhaps a way of of y'know kind of erm because there was a great deal of interest , particularly in the seventies , in cataloguing and understanding the various ways in which women were oppressed and this is one of the things came to light and often through things like consciousness raising groups . |
| 16 | And , the way things had been going for Gerhard Berger , it was perhaps no surprise that it should be his McLaren which would suffer that fate . |
| 17 | It was perhaps no coincidence that French was adopted by English departments of state during the Anglo-French rapprochement of that time . |
| 18 | It was perhaps no wonder that his ‘ quiet , nice ’ wife had hair that had gone white by the time she was thirty . |
| 19 | It was perhaps no wonder that he reacted against the spartan , puritanical environment of Potsdam . |
| 20 | It was perhaps the miracle of the decade that BR was allowed to invest so heavily in a new generation of multiple units . |
| 21 | When Jan Timman and Jonathan Speelman shook hands on a draw in the fifth game of their match on Sunday night , it was perhaps the most surprising move of the event so far . |
| 22 | It was perhaps the heightened awareness , evident in this film , of what distinguished the Americans from the British that produced such a weird send-up of the archetypal Englishman in the company 's popular adaptation of Rider Haggard 's King Solomon 's Mines ( 1937 ) . |
| 23 | It was perhaps the argument that this imposition of middle-class morality was holding back the British cinema which led to the matter becoming an issue of public concern . |
| 24 | It was perhaps the small electric heater in my bedroom which made him say that . |
| 25 | The enormity of ‘ one roof ’ had taken her by surprise , and it was perhaps the way that had stiffened her which made her now feel so free , so beyond obligation . |
| 26 | Impervious to any probing , a rod never needed or offered the possibility of any overhaul , so it was perhaps the least adorned of all weapons . |
| 27 | The 1959 decree did not fundamentally change the existing situation — argue Missika and Woltons — but it was perhaps the text that , more than any other , showed that ‘ public service broadcasting ’ would not develop on lines akin to Britain 's BBC . |
| 28 | Earlier he had heard that a young clerk from the Post Office had shot himself while lying in bed … he had left a young widow , to whom he had been married in Calcutta during the previous cold season ; this act of despair had moved him more than any other of the many deaths he had witnessed since the beginning of the siege ; it was perhaps the fact that the young man had been lying in bed when he had shot himself that the Collector found so sad . |
| 29 | She briefly wondered if it was perhaps the work of Earth Reptiles , but swiftly dismissed the idea , since not only did the style not match theirs , but there was no sign of their hibernation hives . |
| 30 | It was perhaps the poignant contrast between her privileged youth and the straitened circumstances of her later life that stimulated Alice to write ‘ my own book of my life , the collections of God 's dealings and mercies to me and all mine till my widowed condition ’ . |