Example sentences of "[am/are] perhaps [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These substantial , and obviously expensive works are perhaps a little surprising , as cloth making in the Chalford area had been declining . |
| 2 | But the results of the best ‘ neutrino-catching ’ experiment so far carried out are perhaps a little worse than the expectations of the most depressed pessimist : in 1965 a team of scientists recorded a grand total of seven neutrinos in nine months ! |
| 3 | For the Roman period , settlement patterns are perhaps a little more precise . |
| 4 | ‘ We are perhaps a little unusual in this region in that we produce only red wine , ’ the Baronne went on . |
| 5 | Shorter maturities are perhaps a little too volatile and respond to day-to-day liquidity conditions too readily to be used as such a guideline . |
| 6 | We are perhaps a somewhat blunt family . |
| 7 | These skills are perhaps no better illustrated than by the finds from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo . |
| 8 | Concentrated liquid pesticides applied as diluted sprays are perhaps the most versatile against pests of top growth , whereas soil pests are often treated with granules or dusts , the latter also used as seed dressings . |
| 9 | The abdominals are perhaps the most striking and impressive of all the muscle groups . |
| 10 | The lower back muscles , the spinal erectors , are neglected by the majority of people , and yet these muscles are perhaps the most important in the back . |
| 11 | Dating baked clay and burnt stone are perhaps the most interesting archaeological applications of TL , because these — in particular burnt flint — allow the dating of sites older than about ten thousand years , when the first pottery began to appear . |
| 12 | Anyone inclined to mock this suggestion should note that the armed services are perhaps the most respected institution in Britain today . |
| 13 | They are perhaps the most obvious form of deviance , in that crime is clearly behaviour which breaks the standards of society and which can result in some punishment . |
| 14 | Flower visitors — moths , butterflies , hoverflies , bees and wasps — are perhaps the most conspicuous feature of the garden but there is also an abundance and variety of plant-feeders , such as moth larvae , and associated predators , parasites and scavengers . |
| 15 | And yet , they are perhaps the most generous , the most warm-hearted people in the universe . |
| 16 | Overall these are very comfortable necks to play , but the only areas which could be tidied are perhaps the most important ones : the nuts and the fret-ends . |
| 17 | The first two words of that universal prayer are perhaps the most important , for they express our faith in and our filial relation to Him . |
| 18 | Medicine and Science with a capital ‘ S ’ are perhaps the most obvious examples of such esoteric worlds . |
| 19 | ‘ Polytechniciens ’ are perhaps the most prestigious ; ‘ enarques ’ , the most ubiquitous . |
| 20 | These five groups of cases are perhaps the most important . |
| 21 | These are perhaps the most rewarding circumstances in which the artist can work from the nude , since they presuppose a fulfilment of relationship and consequently a relaxation of atmosphere . |
| 22 | Whilst these are perhaps the most complex analyses that need to be performed , they are not at present really interactive design programs ; they are simply used for the analysis of a specified configuration . |
| 23 | The guitar and the piano are perhaps the most common alternatives , but instruments of all kinds can be used and this gives encouragement to the formation of music groups . |
| 24 | Lone mothers are perhaps the most ‘ visible ’ of all poor women . |
| 25 | The divisions , of course , are based mainly on class , race , age , politics , health and sexual identity , and of these class , race , and sexual identity are perhaps the most urgent in our immediate struggle . |
| 26 | Theodor Adorno , on the contrary , has produced what are perhaps the most considered , influential , and lengthy analyses of modernist art ; yet these analyses tend to be formalist , to ignore the realm of popular culture , and to focus rather singularly on the production of cultural forms rather than on the social bases of their reception . |
| 27 | Of the various concepts that Derrida uses in conducting his argument , those of ‘ logocentrism- and ‘ différance ’ are perhaps the most effective as a means of introducing his ideas . |
| 28 | Quartz and calcite are perhaps the most common but chlorite , clay minerals , hematite , dolomite , siderite , aragonite , phosphates and evaporite minerals ( particularly halite ) also occur as cements , as do zeolites , particularly in volcanogenic sediments ( Table 5.1 ) . |
| 29 | These are perhaps the most important distinctions in the use of deictic terms , but they are not the only ones . |
| 30 | The categories of speech and thought presentation are perhaps the most significant contributions made by stylistics to the understanding of narrative fiction , adding depth to the analysis of narrative point of view , and enabling precise analysis of the very subtle movements between commentary and focalisation in the narrative voice . |