Example sentences of "perhaps [noun] 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps Haydn 's Menuetto Allegretto is n't gemütlich after all just diabolically spicy . |
| 2 | Perhaps Arabella 's death upset him more than he let on . ’ |
| 3 | Or perhaps Molly 's departure had in fact sown the seed of restlessness in her and the prospect of others — especially her zeide — emigrating to Palestine was beginning to nourish that seed and make it grow . |
| 4 | Perhaps Labour 's leadership could explain what has happened to the SDLP since 1981 to make it capable of bringing Catholic and Protestant workers together . |
| 5 | Perhaps Ken 's accident had made him more articulate . |
| 6 | Perhaps Wright 's success is best symbolized by the construction in 1869 of the roof of St Pancras station , a 240-foot tied arch of cast iron , weighing 9,000 tons , with no intermediate structure , probably then the largest single span of its kind in the world . |
| 7 | Perhaps Sutherland 's life is like a ’ small ’ movie . |
| 8 | Something she said , perhaps Matey 's name , the lack of privacy for the two of them in the small house , although they had both kept their voices low , stopped him . |
| 9 | Perhaps Gould 's work on snail speciation gives him some peculiarly perceptive insights into the baseball world . |
| 10 | The contrast between these two cases should warn us against generalising propositions which make either fluidity and mobility of the working class , or tradition and community within particular branches , into uniquely favourable conditions for socialist organisation ( the first is perhaps Bologna 's temptation ; the second appears to be the temptation of the work done under the auspices of the ‘ History Workshop ’ ) . |
| 11 | Erm twenty or thirty years later Kinsey was studying human sexuality and saying things like I 've stuck on the handout so erm y'know in some ways perhaps Kinsey 's attitude to these things er changed . |
| 12 | Perhaps Caro 's declaration that her stepbrother was very likeable had not just stemmed from partiality . |
| 13 | So perhaps Mill 's claim is that the pleasurableness of life is all that matters but that this can not always be so well promoted by increasing the quantity of low level pleasure as by obtaining lesser amounts of high quality pleasure . |
| 14 | ‘ I thought perhaps Stephen 's brother might have come to the party with you ? ’ |
| 15 | Perhaps Butler 's position is essentially that of such an intuitionist . |
| 16 | Perhaps Vincent 's mother had put pressure on him , or perhaps he had his own reasons for softening the blow . |
| 17 | They even have a branch of M & S. Come to think of it , perhaps Grimshaw 's pavilion is the ideal location , come the autumn , for the first out-of-town branch of that great British enterprise to hit the Iberian peninsula . |
| 18 | Ducrocq , recognising perhaps Jack 's engineering ability and flying enthusiasm , took him on as his full time mechanic and at the same time began teaching Jack to fly . |
| 19 | Perhaps Bruno 's death , long expected , had already been consigned to the past . |
| 20 | And it appeared the game , and perhaps Kendall 's tenure , was slipping away when Mark Wright converted Liverpool 's supremacy into a 62nd-minute lead . |
| 21 | Perhaps Leila 's family had not been quite good enough for him . |
| 22 | And then again perhaps Modigliani 's exasperation stemmed in part from envy of this brilliant young man . |
| 23 | Perhaps Europe 's leadership will prove too weak . |
| 24 | Perhaps Flaubert 's interest was encouraged by the discovery ( or indeed the memory ) that in 1837 the king 's sarcophagus had been excavated by the British and shipped back to London . |
| 25 | Perhaps Lehmann 's confidence in his work acted as a spur . |
| 26 | That combination indicates perhaps Cohan 's key to the entire venture , for the ‘ technique mix ’ scenario does n't begin and end with his association with the Scottish Ballet . |
| 27 | Perhaps Charles 's hand can be seen behind this remarkable foreshadowing of a new style of king-making ritual . |
| 28 | But perhaps Charles 's realm was intended to be rather more than a prospective one . |
| 29 | Perhaps Andrew 's quirkiness preferred the persistence of the myth rather than the inside story , but with his death the truth must be told , since it is a tribute to his generous nature . |
| 30 | Perhaps Eliot 's attitude is an aspect of his puritanism : the pleasure involved in the " sudden relief of producing the poem is itself considered by him to be suspect . |