Example sentences of "[det] was perhaps [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The southumbrian kingdoms could have developed in any number of directions , three of which in particular seem to stand out : a southern England could have emerged , the domination of which was shared between the Mercians and the South Saxons ( this was the prospect in the reign of Wulfhere if the trends of that time had been maintained ) ; or even a south-eastern England dominated by the South Saxons ( this was perhaps a prospect in late 670s ) ; or a southern England dominated from the reign of Caedwalla by the West Saxons ( the prospect in the mid-680s ) . |
| 2 | He looked startled , wondering if this was perhaps a nineteen nineties condemnation of his sexual prowess . |
| 3 | This was perhaps a conservative precaution on Franco 's part , and a reminder that , when it came to the nation 's purse-strings , there would not yet be any hint of relaxation or liberalism . |
| 4 | In the CEGB 's tangle of arguments , this was perhaps the most bizarre twist of all . |
| 5 | This was perhaps the final and clinching element of a strenuous programme of persuasion on the part of Gordon Thomas , for shortly after came the committee 's decision to go ahead at Foxton . |
| 6 | Dismal though it might seem relative to the great hopes earlier , this was perhaps the high point for the accommodation of the nationalists . |
| 7 | What with the ‘ Shake 's Callahan breaking sweat and strings in bullish fashion and Stereolab set adrift on Sean O'Hagan 's organ-ic flights of fancy , this was perhaps the choice threesome of the entire bash . |
| 8 | This was perhaps the one element of veiled blackmail in Baldwin 's dealing with the King , the faint suggestion that if he was too awkward with the Government he might end up without either the Throne or the freedom to marry Mrs Simpson . |
| 9 | At the time this was perhaps the most lavishly equipped school of its kind in the UK ( though there were many more lavish examples still in the richer areas of the USA ) but its strength was to be the participation of its library resource centre personnel and the head of resources in the in-service education of the teachers . |
| 10 | In terms of ‘ class struggle ’ this was perhaps the high point of the government 's achievements . |
| 11 | This was perhaps the height of the reform movement 's optimism . |
| 12 | This was perhaps the most violent 2-year period in American industrial-relations history . |
| 13 | This was perhaps the most fundamental bone of contention between Adorno 's high modernist aesthetic ( Wellmer 1984–5 ) and what can be understood as Benjamin 's postmodernist alternative . |
| 14 | This was perhaps the main single reason why changes in teaching methods were not implemented . |
| 15 | This was perhaps the most directly inflationary aspect of Pitt 's financial management , and the bridging of the gap between income and expenditure was not helped by his stubbornly sticking to the idea of the Sinking Fund . |
| 16 | Now thirdly the Vietnam war , now this was perhaps the most harrowing war the Americans ever got themselves involved in and has had deep and permanent effects upon American policy making to this very day . |
| 17 | Now thirdly the Vietnam war , now this was perhaps the most harrowing war the Americans ever got themselves involved in and has had deep and permanent effects upon American policy making to this very day . |
| 18 | All this was perhaps an inevitable reaction by a new generation to the old creed of individualism and laissez faire which G. W. E. Russell , a Liberal MP and High Churchman , denounced in a Manchester Guardian article at the turn of the century as ‘ this intellectual but unmoral theory ’ . |
| 19 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 20 | It 's , I mean he played very well DaSilva I think , but in a completely different mode to the first innings , he was purely set on trying to save the game , trying to battle with , I think he did n't bowl very well , had n't bowled very many short balls in the day and that was perhaps the first one he 's had to receive and er he was caught in two minds really . |