Example sentences of "[coord] perhaps the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps the subtle energy with which the place is charged will encourage the growth of a tree or the thickening of a hedge . |
| 2 | She would be a great actress or a great painter , or perhaps the first woman Prime Minister . |
| 3 | The final proof , or perhaps the first , is the chub 's big mouth and thick white rubbery lips . |
| 4 | Or perhaps the two old dears together . |
| 5 | Or perhaps the recent tremor was just a prelude to the really big one . |
| 6 | He was frightened that hostile readers of his theological work would be able to say that his religion could be ‘ explained ’ in terms of the Oedipus complex ( or perhaps the Hippolytus complex ) ; and that he was only able to find peace for his heart by coming to terms with a Heavenly Father of his own projection when he had seen the last of his earthly father in Belfast . |
| 7 | Or perhaps the New Horizons people would prefer you to buy WinMail , which Software Partners also have on their lists at the same price — we 'll perhaps look at that another time . |
| 8 | Despite that , there are many cases when hill climbing is the best or perhaps the only practical approach : |
| 9 | Sometimes there is a curious line of dots curved into an arc shape , which may be taken to represent a rainbow or perhaps the Milky Way . |
| 10 | In the late seventeen hundreds or perhaps the early eighteen hundreds ’ |
| 11 | So it may be the Regional Association or perhaps the local estuary er Sailing Association is first contacted and what will happen er when one is contacted is that you will come into contact with environmentalists and conservationists and not all environmentalists and conservationists are quite as af affable and conciliatory as I am , some can be quite confrontational and therefore there will be the need for a considerable amount of lip biting and self restraint . |
| 12 | They burnt on occasion a couple of Popes , or perhaps the same Pope twice ; it was n't anti-Catholicism , teenage daughters just objected to something he had said . |
| 13 | The talks came to grief after the separatists insisted that the government , or perhaps the ruling Socialist party , should publicly acknowledge that its representatives had agreed to negotiate with ETA on the Basque country 's political future . |
| 14 | At Stockwell Manor School we meet a certain amount of competition for the working areas and sometimes need to round-up hordes of energetic youngsters who have invaded the gym or perhaps the quiet concentration of a theory lesson is assailed by a steel band at full volume . |
| 15 | Examples include the attractive Devonshire Cup Coral , Caryophyllia smithi , which is a warm water species with a rather restricted distribution in the south and west ; or perhaps the attractive Leopard spotted Goby , Thorogobius ephippiatus a small fish know to be plentiful in the Mediterranean , but seen mostly by SCUBA divers . |
| 16 | Although some traces , such as scratch marks , can be attributed to arthropods ( or perhaps the related anomalocariids ) , in general tying traces to their makers is difficult . |
| 17 | Theorists tell us it ought to look more like a symphony orchestra or a hospital or perhaps the British Raj . |
| 18 | In spring it might be a cluster of brilliant tulips ; later on , splashes of annuals , or perhaps the fleeting but spectacular display of a tree in full blossom . |
| 19 | Though , as I mentioned , I was unable to make contact with Mr Mint , a letter accompanying his essay did make clear the unfortunate fact that its standard — or perhaps the startling originality of its thinking — did not meet with the examiners ' approval . |
| 20 | Nine months or a year 's time we may have a different animal working in that office and it may well be some person who has who does some J L O work to supplement John and does some project work , now er Jackie has indicated she 'd love to fill that role , and we all know what project she 'd want to be doing it , but er if we do put somebody in that role they will be project officer as well and on the wall will be a year planner and it 'll have things like crucial crew gala day and all these major major things and that particular officer will work quite closely with the new Pat and they 'll be able to take some of the weight off our shoulders so when we start planning for something like crucial crew you can delegate some of the work to the project officer and perhaps the other sergeant Now I know things do n't always work out quite that straightforwardly but you know the last year has been a bastard of a year for us in terms of sickness , four S L O's have been on long-term sick we 've lost Pat for all that time Jed was off for quite a while |
| 21 | Arthur Crawford , renowned plantsman , created a glorious Garden City Centre on that first morning of C.A. ‘ 92 , and perhaps the two ideals were realised as we all served together the rest of the week in true society . |
| 22 | He argued , historically , that he knew ‘ of no period in which the police have had such a loud and didactic public presence , … [ or ] when they have offered themselves as a distinct interest as one of the great ‘ institutions ’ and perhaps the first in the realm ’ . |
| 23 | The method used for climbing steep ice which employs the two forward facing points and perhaps the first two of the downward ones . |
| 24 | But if Charles was the first Carolingian , and perhaps the first medieval king , to show an insider 's appreciation of contemporary scholarship , he had ( directly or indirectly ) his mother to thank . |
| 25 | A fourth and perhaps the largest reason for attending to causation is that we do well to avoid the general conceptual uncertainty that must be part of an inquiry which leaves undefined any of its fundamental ideas which are open to definition . |
| 26 | Turkey with all the trimmings , the Queen 's speech ‘ on the box ’ , and perhaps the odd drink or mince pie too many . |
| 27 | He died young , and perhaps the poor devil was lucky . ’ |
| 28 | Some Romanians , however , saw the emergence of General Jaruzelski and his apparently successful suppression of Solidarity after 13 December 1981 , as a good omen : perhaps , the local incompetent might be replaced by a reliable general and perhaps the Soviet Union would not mind either . |
| 29 | And perhaps the greatest value of the video has been to reduce the time the average family spends watching the effluvia of television served up on the two main British television channels whose only role in the future looks more and more likely to be news and sports . |
| 30 | Rob Wilson 's reputation as a rod builder is unequalled in Scotland and perhaps the greatest test of his skill came in 1958 . |