Example sentences of "perhaps in [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that in times past marmosets were bigger but , perhaps in adaptation to an almost bird-like life in the high branches of South America forests , they have shown an evolutionary trend of decreasing size . |
| 2 | And then with writing , too , they have the opportunity to develop those talents , perhaps in addition to their own erm school writing . |
| 3 | Perhaps in deference to the Greek drama , they were remarkably lacking in plot or incident . |
| 4 | The 1555 survey contains forty-six ( exclusive of men who were also freeholders ) , and it is reasonable to assume that something like thirty held land that was sublet in 1522 , an estimate that finds a measure of confirmation in the subsidy schedule which , perhaps in deference to the provision for the taxing of income from customary holdings , mentions the landed wealth of twenty-six men who were assessed on goods . |
| 5 | The Labour Party seemed to sense that it had gone too far in criticism of the police , perhaps in response to the far-left , middle-class activists of sociological inclination , and had been too tender towards violent criminals and other deviants . |
| 6 | Perhaps in response to this call for negotiations ( though that is something that the administration would not admit ) , Mr Baker is set to make another tour of allied capitals in Europe and the Middle East , during which he would , at the very least , be available for a meeting in Baghdad . |
| 7 | In the 1760's when Wilson was asked to paint Welsh landscape , perhaps in response to the Celtic revival , he was faced with the problem of how to paint bare mountains . |
| 8 | And there are more levels than before ( over 35 ) , perhaps in response to criticism that the original relied too much on arcade spectacle over depth of play . |
| 9 | Roman Catholic organizations shared this experience of diminishing resources , Jewish institutions less so , perhaps in response to the mounting ‘ anti-alien ’ fervour of the first decade of the century . |
| 10 | Soon after Naxos , Athens undertook a big aggressive campaign in the south-eastern Aegean , under Kimon 's leadership ; this was perhaps in response to allied discontent at the way the league was turning into a machine for policing its own members . |
| 11 | Where the jargon might arise would be perhaps in response to questions from an architect for instance yes . |
| 12 | Indeed , such an observation is by no means confined to the service sectors discussed here , and is a result of service policy pressures much wider than ( and perhaps in opposition to ) concerns about the provision of high quality community support . |
| 13 | The result is that they make less use of their linguistic resources than they do at home and have less opportunity to extend those they already possess , except perhaps in relation to the specific vocabulary associated with the tasks they are required to perform . |
| 14 | One guess is that they work in strict alternation , perhaps in obedience to a monthly nerve signal from the brain . |
| 15 | She had lapsed into gloomy self-absorption , perhaps in reaction to Golding 's interrogatory methods . |
| 16 | Since at least the later 1970s , perhaps in reaction to the flamboyant ( and highly successful ) practices of the Munrow era , many critics writing in England have suspected that conspicuous and varied orchestrations of medieval and Renaissance music reflect performers ' failure of confidence in the variety and quality of the music they are performing . |