Example sentences of "can perhaps " in BNC.
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| 1 | The beauty and achievements of Bohemian art can perhaps be called Czech only with an effort , but there is no doubt of the attachment of a people to the heritage that they can rightly claim . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , why not leave the keys with us and then if you ca n't get away , you can perhaps come back here — or if everything goes OK we 'll use it as a playroom or something . ’ |
| 3 | Also , I am a bit older than the rest of you , but you can perhaps understand that I do n't want to drop dead without a proper and public recantation . |
| 4 | But his whole account can perhaps be understood so as to avoid such objections . |
| 5 | Brando is like a creature from a different world and time , a lumbering dinosaur who can perhaps only survive in post-modern MTV Hollywood as a kind of comic carnival turn . |
| 6 | A farmer rearing his own replacements and with a static herd size who purchases a calving heifer of roughly similar merit to his existing herd can perhaps afford about £4 per extra point . |
| 7 | And by this means , perhaps , by being ambitious or ‘ miriad-minded ’ , I can perhaps address myself to the nature of this foulness : how can a man do such a thing ? |
| 8 | It can perhaps be said that the bereavement care teams who usually now come to help at such times are the public recognition of this phenomenon . |
| 9 | It is at this stage that we can perhaps be of most use by pointing out that that is mostly what grief is about . |
| 10 | The attitude to the Belgian state within that country can perhaps be illustrated by an anecdote . |
| 11 | As I am not planning to spend a lot on the engine I need something I can perhaps restore myself . |
| 12 | Inasmuch as that additional reason may tip the balance one can perhaps over-dramatize the situation by saying that an authoritative requirement is a reason to act against the balance of reasons on the merits of the case . |
| 13 | Obviously there is also the money element , and by returning to work you can perhaps give your child other benefits you might not otherwise be able to afford such as foreign holidays or maybe a private education . |
| 14 | The relation between the effects of habituation and those implied by the Pearce — Hall model can perhaps be made clear if we adopt the elaboration offered by Liddell ( 1950 ) of Pavlov 's notion of the orienting reflex . |
| 15 | But it can perhaps be seen as an architectural expression of that scented fin de siècle fascination with the Near East that produced in this period such works as Massenet 's opera Thaïs and Strauss 's Salome and the luxuriant novels of Pierre Loti and Pierre Louys . |
| 16 | I studied all over again those marvellous descriptions and illustrations , and you can perhaps understand my growing excitement at the notion that I might now actually undertake a motoring trip myself around that same part of the country . |
| 17 | The dismal nature of English teaching for O and A level in the past can perhaps be accounted for largely by the numbers of pupils entered for the examinations who were not in fact suited to study literature ( though they might have benefited from an advanced study of their own language ) . |
| 18 | The judges ' deliberate promotion of the Second Empire can perhaps be explained from the standpoint of patronage . |
| 19 | In addition , they can perhaps bring home to the community just how much education needs and deserves better funding . |
| 20 | The value of Gerry Queen to Crystal Palace can perhaps be measured by the fact that he was easily our top scorer in Division One between 1969 and 1973 , with 24 top-flight goals , while his 1– strikes in 1969–71 represented a quarter of our total tally in those two seasons . |
| 21 | Although these , and similar objects , are small in scale , this belies their importance to bird conservation in the county as a whole in view of the rapid decline of certain bird feeding can perhaps be mentioned as a considerable benefit to certain bird populations . |
| 22 | Huge cuts in EPA 's research Funds ( down by nearly 50 per cent since Reagan took office ) can perhaps be justified on the grounds that , in hard times , scientific priorities can be temporarily reshuffled with little or no long-term damage . |
| 23 | This view of cats is shared by people who have , and who can perhaps afford to have , the idea of ‘ animals as pets ’ . |
| 24 | The fact that different dowsers can get very different results on the same site can perhaps be explained as the interaction between their own energy field and the field of the site , so that the dowsing patterns found can only have true meaning by looking at the dowser as well . |
| 25 | Richard M. Cooper , former archivist of the house of Longman , who published the book , makes the point , however , that a small ‘ privately printed ’ pamphlet published a month or two before The Pencil of Nature contains a single photographic frontispiece ‘ and therefore can perhaps take prior claim to be the first book in the world illustrated by photography , but it did not play the significantly influential part of The Pencil of Nature in establishing photographic illustration . |
| 26 | Furthermore one can perhaps see the solution to which Tolkien , in his philological way , was drawn , namely to present the First Age as ‘ a complex of divergent texts interlinked by commentary ’ ( UT , p. 1 ) , the texts themselves being supposedly written by Men , of different periods , looking back across the ages to vast rumours of whose truth they knew only part . |
| 27 | However , the task of transferring the central focus from the child to the older relative has not yet been attempted , and this chapter can perhaps be viewed as a small beginning to such a process . |
| 28 | The underlying ideas are very complicated ; they can perhaps be most easily visualized in terms of Schrödinger 's cat . |
| 29 | You very soon become familiar with the layout of the hospital and its policies , and can perhaps identify one area where you might like to work permanently . |
| 30 | The sensitivity of the issue however , can perhaps be gauged by the fact that America 's hottest prospect , Venus Williams , from Los Angeles , was invited to the workshop , but refused to attend . |