Example sentences of "perhaps for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Multiple roots are in practice very rate ( except perhaps for mechanical systems moving freely in space , when multiple zero roots can occur : but these have a special simplicity ) . |
| 2 | It seems to me indisputable that , in our culture , adolescence constitutes just such a crisis — perhaps for many people the major one — but because it is one with which we are all familiar , I do not intend to delineate it in detail . |
| 3 | Perhaps for many people who come to live in the town that is part of its attraction . |
| 4 | Indeed the little incident could not have been better judged to give them , as a group , a history and a common recognition of similar social sympathy , of good manners under stress , even of kinship that they alone in the Swan , in Grasmere and perhaps for many miles around , should have shared in Miss D'Arcy 's private grief and dealt with it so skilfully and properly . |
| 5 | Provision needed to be made for dowager widows , and for younger sons and for daughters , and perhaps for other persons . |
| 6 | ( 1 ) incomplete adaptation — since not all features of JC would be sufficiently salient to be " noticeable " for the purposes of adaptation , some of these would " slip through " and would fail to be adapted ( 2 ) inconsistency — due to possible learning or memory constraints , or perhaps for other reasons not well understood , some adaptations would be made haphazardly , so that the same item might appear sometimes in its LE variant , sometimes in its JC form ( 3 ) misadaptation — where the systems of JC and LE differ in such a way that adapting correctly requires recognising a contrast that exists in JC but not in LE , we would expect LE speakers to " get it wrong " some of the time , creating forms which are neither the target ( JC ) nor LE . |
| 7 | Readers require precision timings , perhaps for other purposes , should use an alternative circuit . |
| 8 | It is perhaps for that reason that the pensions industry had been able to get away with such arrangements for so long . |
| 9 | Given the great variation that exists in wealth , social organisation and culture in Latin America , it is not easy to find a simple , but also heuristic schema for class analysis , and perhaps for that reason the exercise has not been attempted very often . |
| 10 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |
| 11 | The Second Quartet , composed in 1951 , is a far more concise work in a much freer tonal idiom , mostly avoiding the elaborate texture which marks the earlier quartet : perhaps for that reason I find it the more memorable of the two . |
| 12 | The planned towns are the easiest kind of urban landscape to understand , and perhaps for that reason the least interesting to the curious traveller — however attractive they may be to look at . |
| 13 | Her husband had found this fishy , and perhaps for that reason it filled her with intense curiosity . |
| 14 | ‘ Our opinions were , I think , maintained on both sides without full conviction ; Monboddo declared boldly for the savage , and I perhaps for that reason sided with the Citizen . ’ |
| 15 | The letters pronounced separately , D.I.Y. , do not produce a particularly pleasing sound and perhaps for that reason this pronunciation is not popular among the general public , so in the spoken language DIY Shop usually remains the rather cumbersome Do It Yourself Shop . |
| 16 | More important perhaps for regular consultation are the vast array of interest and pressure groups that coordinate opinion on separate issues , or who are consulted continuously in permanent opinion gathering bodies , or who are asked to participate in Advisory Commissions on specific issues like Public Administrative Reform . |
| 17 | Since the study by Vawter ( 1972 ) , the old problems of inspiration and inerrancy have largely been given a rest by Catholic theologians ; perhaps for sheer weariness and relief , but perhaps also because from the late 1960s many of them were theologizing in exciting new university contexts and learning the arcane language of philosophical hermeneutics . |
| 18 | Perhaps for future competitions consideration could be given to the fact that anyone entering these competitions from areas a distance from London should not be disadvantaged and venues arranged so that extra cost is not incurred and the prize could then be truly enjoyed by everyone . |
| 19 | My hon. Friend points to the fact that there is scope for significantly increased expenditure , perhaps for eastern Europe and the cohesion fund , as he says , but without the existing own resources ceiling , which is still underspent . |
| 20 | A survey of niello composition , from the Roman period to the twentieth century , has identified the beginnings of a change in composition in the sixth century in Northern Europe when , perhaps for economic reasons , copper as well as silver was added to the crucible with the sulphur . |
| 21 | Persistent total weedkillers will kill all plant growth , perhaps for six months or more . |
| 22 | It seems impossible that they could not have known where they were ; they can only have ignored it deliberately , and therefore perhaps for political reasons of their own . |
| 23 | Sidonius , perhaps for political reasons , is concerned to portray a restrained and civilized man , with a good deal of power and authority . |
| 24 | It seems more likely that the Khmers Rouges decided not to disrupt the election , perhaps for good reason . |
| 25 | The inevitable question , ‘ What did you do in the hols ? ’ would be greeted with a list of the films I had seen , and the dances and point-to-points I had been to , whereas in fact I was not allowed to go to the cinema ( perhaps for financial reasons ) , had never been to a dance in my life , and did n't even know what a point-to-point was . |
| 26 | He was gone perhaps for five minutes . |
| 27 | Sukarno suffered from malaria ; in 1938 he was moved to Benkulen in Sumatra , perhaps for humanitarian reasons ( in 1936 Hatta and Sjahrir were moved from their vile jungle camp ) , or perhaps because the Dutch hoped that a more Islamic environment would complete his ‘ conversion , from politics to religion , for Islam in Sumatra was more powerful than the syncretic faith of Java . |
| 28 | Erm if you wish to proceed with this proposal , I would suggest perhaps that erm it is n't uncertainty of responsibility but perhaps the extent of responsibilities and powers of the various agencies which need to be clarified and I , it is , it is pro probably that area which erm will be addressed by er th the analysis which takes place erm after the immediate problems are behind us er but certainly the implications for the Strategic Planning Committee erm and for , perhaps for local planning or something which erm the Chief Officers could be asked to report back to this Committee . |
| 29 | It is perhaps for these reasons that there is little tangible evidence showing any measurable reduction in loss of fire damage to contents or structures . |
| 30 | In any case the years of growth came to an end in the 1970s : structure plans , ideal documents perhaps for broad-brush indication of options in spatial development , became less and less suitable to cope with a ‘ no change ’ situation . |