Example sentences of "perhaps [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above all he becomes a technician of controlled trance , to which he then surrenders totally — perhaps rather unknowingly as do our greatest actors and musicians . |
| 2 | This example of practical remembrance is paralleled in our other welfare facilities — at Sussexdown and Richard Peack House and the Eagle Lodges — and perhaps most importantly as we reach out through our Honorary Welfare Officers and out members to find and to help individuals in need . |
| 3 | On the one hand , Jaq must seem capable of irony and flexible tolerance — perhaps only so as to spring a trap . |
| 4 | Trumpets wailed , acrobats somersaulted , torn beasts died ; some bejewelled ladies blew kisses , perhaps only so as to kindle the jealousy of rival ladies or of their own lords . |
| 5 | Finally , I came up with a plan which , while perhaps not exactly as Mr Farraday had requested , was the best , I felt sure , that was humanly possible . |
| 6 | The two figures have been kind of squelched together just as in , in Exodus there are two , sorry in erm in er Genesis there are two er Garden of Eden stories so they claim there are two Moses figures who have been erm as it were compounded together , but both of them says Freud were powerful religious leaders and they probably did give their followers moral principles , perhaps not exactly as we have but something very like it and so Freud is not sceptical about that . |
| 7 | The only competitor it rates is Ingres Windows , perhaps not surprisingly as SmartStar 's vice president of development is Mike Dion , ex VP of engineering at Ingres . |
| 8 | Perhaps not always as immediately dramatic as an exploding volcano , devastating earthquake nor a hurricane-force wind — but in terms of a sustained exertion of strength , it is probably the most powerful earth-borne entity known . |
| 9 | On nearby Beinn an Lochain , a route called the Frog does n't stir the same dread , perhaps reasonably so as it is a II/III crossing Toad , and put up by Tom Redfern and Klaus Schwartz . |
| 10 | I think what was in the village news it arose out of those children 's survey down there and what happened was that Mrs did n't think we 'd er put in perhaps as politely as we should . |
| 11 | Erm but , but they 're an easy target to go for as opposed to , I mean Mao could e perhaps as easily as argued , saying you know commercialization is not the way forward , erm and we do n't want greater interaction with the world economy erm as opposed to saying , you know , overthrow the local landlords . |
| 12 | Cairns-Smith 's view of the DNA/protein machinery is that it probably came into existence relatively recently , perhaps as recently as three billion years ago . |
| 13 | Benjaminian allegory functions perhaps as crucially as supplement as it does as ‘ criticism ’ . |
| 14 | We have a witness , however , who is certain that she saw you sitting in a window alcove at the end of the gallery much later on , perhaps as late as midnight . ’ |
| 15 | The survivor ( we assume N5520 ) continued to fly on meteorological flights until perhaps as late as January 1942 . |
| 16 | Rothbury ceased to be clerk of the council when he was appointed a justice of the court of King 's Bench in 1295 , but he remained clerk of Parliament till at least 1307 and perhaps as late as 1314 . |
| 17 | The circular arrangement above the Hare was assigned , originally , to the late-third century ( Neal 1981 , no. 25 ) , but this dating has been amended , and the pavement now assigned to the fourth century ( perhaps as late as the second quarter of the fourth century : Cirencester Excavations III , forthcoming ) . |
| 18 | Damon could copy anyone 's handwriting and had been told by their class teacher , in a burst of anger , that he would go far , perhaps as far as the Scrubs for forgery . |
| 19 | The school was divided into Upper and Lower boys , and the Lower boys in each house fagged for members of the Library : they cooked their tea , ran errands for them , being sent perhaps as far as Windsor to fetch a cake from Fuller 's teashop , and they had to come at once when someone in the Library shouted " Boy ! " , the last arrival being given the job . |
| 20 | It gives a new and cruel twist to community care that people may have to be shipped perhaps as far as Birkenhead to find a community home . |
| 21 | Namibia 's more than 700,000 residents are voting for a 72-member constituent assembly to draw up an independence constitution and prepare the way for full independence next year , perhaps as early as April . |
| 22 | Better-than-expected trade figures and increasing optimism that UK interest rates may start to fall from their current 15 per cent level , perhaps as early as next spring , helped fuel a 23.9 point rise in the index to 2,422.7 — within four points of the year 's high of 2,426 established just before the mini-crash in October and within hailing distance of the all-time high of 2,443.4 , established on July 16 , 1987 . |
| 23 | As we have seen , it appears that , despite his own obsessions , Hitler was politically aware from an early date — perhaps as early as 1923 — that a wider currency than anti-Semitism was needed to distinguish the NSDAP from the purely sectarian politics of other völkisch groups , to extend the Party 's appeal , and to make a serious bid for power . |
| 24 | Many professionals wish they had been given more detailed and honest feedback far sooner , perhaps as early as the SSI/RHA 's initial monitoring . |
| 25 | The inscriptions were copied from texts on papyri and certainly date back to the New Kingdom but are probably based on much earlier writings , perhaps as early as the Third Dynasty . |
| 26 | Lathes were introduced to China perhaps as early as the Ming dynasty and were still being used in the jade workshops of Peking when Howard Hansford came to study them in 1938–9 . |
| 27 | At a meeting in mid-September , the government indicated that if IFAW were able to increase income from international ecotourism involving the seals and if it were willing to provide for independent assistance with additional research on the interactions between Cape fur seals and fisheries , it too would be willing to consider announcing a moratorium on the killing of seals , perhaps as early as 1 January 1992 . |
| 28 | His earliest patron was Hubert Walter , later archbishop of Canterbury [ q.v. ] , a fellow native of West Dereham and founder there of a Premonstratensian abbey whose charters are witnessed by Master Elias , perhaps as early as 1188 . |
| 29 | Around the time of engraving ( late 1738 ) Bach undertook a large-scale expansion of the L scheme , adding the E♭ prelude and fugue ( themselves composed perhaps as early as 1735 ) and the manual catechism preludes . |
| 30 | On the assumption that the account of this event in Molla Husrev 's life is at least broadly correct , however , and in the light of the documentary and such other evidence as exists , it would appear that he left for Bursa not earlier than Rajab 876 nor later than Shawwal 877 and returned to become Mufti perhaps as early as 878/1473–4 . |