Example sentences of "[det] perhaps " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 2 | And yet the drama lies in this , wrote Harsnet , that perhaps the Bride really wishes to remain only a bride , at the moment of her bridity , and the bachelors only bachelors , at the moment of their bachelorhood , dangling together like pegs on a line , boys together at eternal stag party , as the bride a virgin forever in her dream of giving herself up to something else , crossing the threshold to another existence . |
| 3 | Of the sense that perhaps everything needs rethinking , that perhaps next time I might get it right . |
| 4 | But second , enough of an overwhelming victory for the incumbent leader to rule out what has always been the more credible avenue through which change might occur : her own apprehension , reaching her by whatever means , that perhaps the time has come to quit — before the election rather than after it . |
| 5 | But at once I saw that perhaps he was right , that perhaps the backs of my hands were indeed hideous and strange . |
| 6 | The quotations were accurate but one sensed within Aumann 's text an underlying idea : not just that Palestine was empty of people — which it assuredly was not — but that perhaps those people who did live there somehow did not deserve to do so ; that they were too slovenly to use modern irrigation methods or to plant trees or to build brick houses . |
| 7 | More fundamentally perhaps , people are asking themselves , ‘ Why did we all want English medium anyway ? ’ and there is a rather bitter feeling around that perhaps all the enthusiasm , all the euphoria about ‘ new methods ’ ought to have been preceded by a sober consideration of ‘ new objectives . ’ |
| 8 | There were various suggestions as to Balliol 's intentions in this southwards move : that his aim was first to divide the west from the east , then to work round and isolate Edinburgh ; that he knew of Sir Archibald Douglas 's mustering of his Galloway vassals and sought to keep this force from joining the main Scots array ; that perhaps he was expecting further English reinforcements from Carlisle and the West March ; and so on . |
| 9 | Company spokesman Chris Hipsher said there is a huge demand for the product , but that perhaps the most often requested port , for SCO Xenix , is still not available . |
| 10 | And I think what the Council 's got to do and I think what the what the what the theatre perhaps has to do is only make that leisure card more easily acceptable and available and also look upon the reductions that we give but that perhaps is a way of actually rewarding the people in Harlow to use the theatre and the contribution in actually paying for it at the expense of the people coming in from outside who perhaps do n't pay anything towards the expense of the theatre . |
| 11 | And they say yeah I will but but presumably that tapers off and they do n't but it 's an interesting thing that on particular when you 're targeting certain things like pantomime do get people in I think there 's lot 's of people said this evening say actually build on that perhaps get those people to come back again so yes I did like it I I did like what I saw there I did like the way that I was treated I did like the whole ambience of the place like I 'll definitely come back again will they be viable to do that ? |
| 12 | And that perhaps er having mentioned the nationalist erm societies this perhaps gives us a clue to it . |
| 13 | She was not very good at smiling these days , and the unease disseminated by her unconvincing efforts led Eddie Duckworth to mutter to her in a corner , with a mixture of sharpness and sorrow , that perhaps she 'd better go to bed . |
| 14 | Quite clearly in the history of detective fiction its writers began to feel that the mere producing of one yet more ingenious murder was not enough , that perhaps setting a slightly less ingenious murder in some interesting area would give readers an extra reason for staying with the book . |
| 15 | By the way , the reason I ask is because th that suggests from from the phrase you used that that you see there are men 's traditions and that perhaps Scottish traditions are are very , are very |
| 16 | Once we 've done that perhaps we can sit this particular lay info information on the back of the card so we 're covering |
| 17 | And the fact that he 's a left-hand drive he 's erm perhaps not got quite the view out of his offside mirror , or our offside mirror it would be to us , that perhaps somebody like yourselves have with er a right-hand drive vehicle . |
| 18 | Something like ooh nine out of ten maybe more than that perhaps ninety five out of every hundred words that you write down are okay they 're spelt correctly it 's just the awkward ones . |
| 19 | It dawned on me last season , as we took a first-minute lead over Carlton Town West Saxons , that perhaps it was Fate that plucked pink , 544 , from the hat . |
| 20 | He was fast reaching the conclusion that Cora-Beth wanted him to feel more than a friendly affection for her ; that perhaps she even wanted him to fall in love with her . |
| 21 | If we all did our jobs as well as that perhaps it would n't matter about it being a theocracy . ’ |
| 22 | She could not help thinking , with great sadness of heart , that perhaps she had sent Johnny to die in his little aircraft , with only the memory of her cold eyes and her hard , unloving words . |
| 23 | This year he would n't even have the fallback option of his sister and her family , something that he always approached with a grim sense of duty and then often wound up thinking , at the end of the day , that perhaps it had n't been so bad after all . |
| 24 | Was that perhaps what she wanted ? |
| 25 | Nevertheless , the door was locked , the window casement shut , and Cranston proved to his own satisfaction , as well as his wife 's , that perhaps age had not yet drained the juices of his body . |
| 26 | Is it possible then that perhaps there were boys ' ploughing matches on all the other islands as well , and the tradition has only survived in South Ronaldsay ? |
| 27 | That perhaps things were moving too quickly ? |
| 28 | ‘ That perhaps is making things worse , but Felipe has been angry with me since my father died . |
| 29 | That perhaps gives us some idea of what the regional taxation profile will look like . |
| 30 | That perhaps was an understandable mistake in the nineteenth century when , for example , in this country the population was expanding very rapidly . |