Example sentences of "perhaps the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … These circumstances create what is perhaps the administrative dilemma . |
| 2 | To return to Molla Fenari , one can not then determine with any certainty the date of his journey to Egypt since it is impossible to assert confidently which of the seemingly contradictory facts or sets of facts-Ibn Hajar 's statement that he made the journey in 778 , Taskopruzade 's statement that he went in company with Seyyid Serif , Taskopruzade 's association of Seyyid Serif 's arrival in Karaman with Cemaleddin Aksarayi 's death , and so on-deserves most weight , though perhaps the specific nature of Ibn Hajar 's date argues in its favour while , equally , the slight suspicion which always attaches to attempts to associate great figures of the past argues against the association of Molla Fenari and Seyyid Serif . |
| 3 | It is very difficult to predict what developments are likely in the future except for communities to realise more and more that this issue is very much part of the struggle for human rights and that perhaps the specific right to one 's mother tongue is something multilingual communities need to think about when they go to the ballot box . |
| 4 | Once the art of massage becomes second nature , you may begin to discover ‘ energy blocks ’ which usually manifest as cold areas in the body — perhaps the lower back or the abdomen . |
| 5 | Perhaps the outstanding legacy of Napoleon 's invasion lay with the bevy of experts he had brought with him who created the " Institute d'Egypte " producing numerous volumes that were to launch Egyptology in the Western academic world and , in time , to remind educated Egyptians of former glories . |
| 6 | Perhaps the prevailing attitude towards adolescents was most plainly and simply described by the objectives of the Birmingham CCC : ‘ To bridge the gulf between the disciplined life of the school and the comparative freedom of the industrial world ; to ensure that care of the young shall not cease with the end of school life ; and to provide the means for the guidance of young persons through the difficulties and perils of adolescence . ’ |
| 7 | The grain of truth in the myth of the British administrator dispensing justice impervious to the affection of the natives is to be found in this period of the history of British India , of which James Fitzjames Stephen is perhaps the representative figure , when a maturing bureaucracy was moving away from a personal to an institutional sense of fairness . |
| 8 | But perhaps the fastest rate of change , has been achieved in printer technology . |
| 9 | Perhaps the deep concern of the horsemen to keep their high standard of work even in the ordinary day-to-day ploughing can best be understood when we look at it against the background of a practice that was once common in many parts of Suffolk . |
| 10 | Durkheim is perhaps the key protagonist of this dominant theme of profound social change . |
| 11 | Perhaps the key issue of the 1980s was resources . |
| 12 | Perhaps the key factor which leads the teacher to make a decision on where to start and how to continue is that of ‘ protection ’ a concept to which we need to devote the final section of this chapter on emotion . |
| 13 | Perhaps the key way to establish a connection between the concerns of conventional Marxist urban and regional sociology and the concepts outlined in Chapters 1 and 2 is to concentrate on typical forms of social mobility ; the ways in which they relate to spatial mobility and moral careers . |
| 14 | However , Attlee 's position was a complex one : he was more ready than anyone to criticize strategic arguments used to justify such expenditure , but was never willing to push the arguments to the extent of causing a serious rift with Bevin , who was perhaps the key minister in the government after Attlee . |
| 15 | Perhaps the key influence on the Chicago School was , however , G. H. Mead . |
| 16 | You certainly do n't have to be a bible scholar to read this chapter and realize that perhaps the key word in it is the word lost . |
| 17 | In general , the move is towards supporting the spoken language so that deaf children can more easily fit into the community as a whole , but perhaps the key insight from Tervoort 's study is the perception of the range of solution available to educators in different countries . |
| 18 | Since staff recruitment is perhaps the key task of a bureau 's management committee , it is normal for the chairman and perhaps one other member of the committee to participate in the interviewing process . |
| 19 | It is also interesting as perhaps the key example of a special system designed to minimize political influence at the local level , since local authority involvement is only indirect and slight . |
| 20 | A Quaker ironmaster , Darby was one of the key figures — perhaps the key figure — in the rise of modern British industry , having played a vital role in setting the Industrial Revolution in motion . |
| 21 | Perhaps the key figure in opening up that debate , and reviving the issue of the franchise , was John Bright , at least before Gladstone 's conversion to the cause . |
| 22 | But perhaps the key aspect that will appeal to doctors in considering DRGS is their contribution to medical audit . |
| 23 | Indeed fluidity — of both form and texture is perhaps the chief characteristic of a type of music so free and richly varied that it defies definition . |
| 24 | Death evoked perhaps the chief expression of traditional social life — every man in death commands a multitude . |
| 25 | Perhaps the chief executive is nearing retirement and has lost interest . |
| 26 | The fact that they can do this is perhaps the chief reason why Britain 's constitutional arrangements have stood the test of centuries . |
| 27 | Poverty and overcrowding are characteristic of the greater part of the Canning Town and Silvertown areas , which make up what is perhaps the largest part of unbroken depression in East London . |
| 28 | For the time being , the Dutch succeeded in retaining first place in Asian and African trade and were able to retain what was perhaps the largest share in the transit traffic to Spanish America . |
| 29 | Indeed , perhaps the largest myth to destroy is the ‘ poor relation ’ status that vocabulary has , especially when seen in comparison with grammar . |
| 30 | 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 . |