Example sentences of "and perhaps the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | The method used for climbing steep ice which employs the two forward facing points and perhaps the first two of the downward ones . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Turkey with all the trimmings , the Queen 's speech ‘ on the box ’ , and perhaps the odd drink or mince pie too many . |
| 8 | He died young , and perhaps the poor devil was lucky . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Rob Wilson 's reputation as a rod builder is unequalled in Scotland and perhaps the greatest test of his skill came in 1958 . |
| 12 | But we must hurry north , pausing only to observe that the most dramatic survivor from the early Middle Ages , and perhaps the greatest of all the cities of Europe in the tenth and eleventh centuries , was Cordoba , then in its heyday under the caliphate and its first Indian summer . |
| 13 | But it was during the next year that observers noticed that King Charles himself had become so fond of Berkeley that he was now one of the principal royal favourites , and perhaps the greatest . |
| 14 | Thomas Bewick of Newcastle was the pioneer and perhaps the greatest exponent of this art ; his History of British Birds of 1797–1804 was a splendid example of what could be done , although his text was of no scientific significance . |
| 15 | Now internationally recognized as a result of The Age of Unreason , a book that encapsulates most of his thinking on the future of work and organisations — for example , the concepts of ‘ portfolio ’ work for the over-50s , the ‘ shamrock ’ company with a small permanent core and contracted-out services — Handy is Britain 's only world-class guru and perhaps the closest thinker to Drucker in his range of predictive ideas on society . |
| 16 | Weaving traditions in this region are extremely old , stretching back to the 2nd and perhaps the 3rd millennium BC . |
| 17 | The latest and perhaps the final pronouncement on the so-called Walhein direction was made by Lord Lane C.J. presiding in a court of five judges in Reg. v. Watson [ 1988 ] Q.B . |
| 18 | Sparrow-sized buntings and redpolls , weighing 30–35 g , are the smallest and perhaps the hardiest of polar birds . |
| 19 | The omission of the second ( the social/economic system ) leads to a purely technocratic and physical study of the processes of soil erosion and perhaps the immediate land-uses leading to it , without any analysis of other political economic relationships at the local , regional and international scales which determine the actions of the land-user in the affected area . |
| 20 | Makassar Oil ( a particularly noxious distillation from coconuts ) was a popular hair cosmetic for Victorian men , and perhaps the greasiest of " greasy kids ' stuff " ever to have caught on . |
| 21 | And perhaps the best place is the dining room . |
| 22 | Much research which contributes useful information to sociology is carried out by non-sociologists , and perhaps the best example of this is the decennial census of population without which British sociology would be hard pressed for much data about our society . |
| 23 | But the results are strongly contrasted. and perhaps the best way for the critic — as for the listener — is not to stretch comparisons , but to take each piece on its own , very different merits . |
| 24 | You may ask me then : ‘ Why do n't we do just that ? why has there been this passionate search for some other method of preventing the fall in the value of money or controlling the fall in the value of money , if a cause and perhaps the major cause is undisputed , assessable and obvious ? ’ |
| 25 | There , contrary to expectation , primary schools are of the two to three teacher type even in the heavily populated Punjab province , partly because of the village concept of life and partly because the community structure makes this the best and perhaps the only acceptable form of organisation . |
| 26 | Modigliani worked on the painting , an unusually long time for him and perhaps the only time when he agreed to ‘ continue ’ a painting . |
| 27 | He held that ‘ the obvious and perhaps the only satisfactory solution ’ was a multilateral post-primary school attended by all children alike . |
| 28 | ‘ Many sub-units of companies simply can not be measured by revenue , contributions to profits , or costs related to output units … for a department of this kind , the best and perhaps the only measure of performance is achievement of predetermined programmes within budgets . ’ |
| 29 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 30 | It is the only continuous book he ever wrote after 1945 — the rest is all essays and articles — and perhaps the only entire book by any British-born critic of the age to work moral and literary concerns into a single exercise of radical intellect , as indifferent to tact as to fashion and concerned only with truth itself . |