Example sentences of "perhaps the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope now that perhaps the legal proceedings can be held in abeyance and discussions can take place so some out of court settlement can be reached as the judges are urging . |
| 2 | Perhaps the hooded crows thought it was a game , perhaps they misjudged his skill and speed . |
| 3 | Now that Turkish eyes have turned eastward , and Greek ones northward , perhaps the two countries can stop glaring at each other . |
| 4 | Perhaps the two monsters would hate each other … and would kill , and murder , and destroy … without end . |
| 5 | Perhaps the two ensembles , playing sometimes together , sometimes in alternation , were used to extend the very short dance pieces , which range in length from 10 to 26 bars ( or double that number if each section is repeated once ) . |
| 6 | Perhaps the two events were not unrelated : it is tempting to think of a Tudor entrepreneur seeing the bottom drop out of the wooden armaments market and so moving into lutes . |
| 7 | Perhaps the two worries are related . |
| 8 | Perhaps the two men I had met worked from there , harvesting stones ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Perhaps the other races on this world are the descendants of the people of this one-time Empire . |
| 11 | Perhaps the other men you know find it stimulating to hear such words come from the face of a woman who has the beauty of a madonna , but I do not . ’ |
| 12 | Perhaps the suffocating conventions of the Shermans ' Queen Anne plantation house would not have been forced on an unknowing seventeen-year-old if her ailing mother had not been so shamed by their straitened conditions in a rented house on the borders of the Creole quarter of New Orleans . |
| 13 | Perhaps the standard procedures will enable us to fix the relevant space spans for the interpretation of deictic expressions like here . |
| 14 | Perhaps the thorniest problems of all were those created by the aspirations of regions whose linguistic and cultural identities were actually distinct from those of Spain , or more properly of Castile . |
| 15 | Perhaps the only instances of expert determination where there is no dispute arise from the valuation of shares in private companies . |
| 16 | Perhaps the only reasons for buying a PC publishing system as opposed to a Macintosh one are for Ventura , which has no Macintosh equivalent ( yet ) or because your company will only buy PCs . |
| 17 | Perhaps the only facts that seem to be emerging on this topic are the following two : first , slavery is rare among hunters and gatherers , and , secondly , it occurs most often among pastoralists [ Goody , 1980 ] . |
| 18 | There are occasions — perhaps the only occasions when I feel a mild sense of despair in dealing with the affairs of Northern Ireland — when I fear that others assume that all events in Irish history will always repeat themselves exactly . |
| 19 | Perhaps the major companies should use the independent distributors for their low volume items ; they could attach a ‘ special import ’ sticker and charge a few dollar more . |
| 20 | Perhaps the unsuccessful divisions can be packaged and sold off to someone who believes they can be made to work . |
| 21 | Perhaps the internal strains within the authorities of a newly-reunited Germany — and the demands of public opinion in the old East — make any punitive measures against ex-Easterners peculiarly uncomfortable to promote at this time ( and Krabbe 's coach has been widely fingered as a luminary in East Germany 's old chemically-enhanced Sportkulur . ) |
| 22 | Well perhaps the technological advances we 've seen mean our capacity to handle things has had to expand . |
| 23 | Perhaps the best MIGs can already challenge the F-15 ; perhaps the best radars can detect it , which is why only stealth fighters bombed well-guarded Baghdad . |
| 24 | Perhaps the best illustrations available are of the man who fell into a steel tank which had contained radioactive waste . |
| 25 | The iridescent films of oil on top of puddles provide perhaps the best analogies . |
| 26 | Perhaps the best MIGs can already challenge the F-15 ; perhaps the best radars can detect it , which is why only stealth fighters bombed well-guarded Baghdad . |
| 27 | Until 4 June , Mr Wu could boast perhaps the best connections of any Hong Kong businessman . |
| 28 | Perhaps the best bargains for barnstormers are to be found among converted barns . |
| 29 | Perhaps the best examples of this mistake were the British National Coal Board , British Steel Corporation and British Leyland , all of which had strikingly similar histories : see Higgins and Clegg , 1988 . ) |
| 30 | ‘ And , as a result , we now find ourselves with perhaps the best assets in Europe . |