Example sentences of "[verb] perhaps [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These again suit our mood , but at the last we turn for a final lingering view of the Parthenon , reflecting perhaps on the ultimate destiny of the material works of man . |
| 2 | Historically the word may come from one of several sources , but given its apparent near-restriction to the Welsh border counties , its origin lies perhaps in the Old Welsh Cai , the Middle Welsh Kei , and the Latin Caius , a common praenomen among the Romans . |
| 3 | The Times Higher Education Supplement began an editorial on the CNAA in 1972 with the statement : ‘ The Council for National Academic Awards must be one of the few unqualified success stories in higher education in the past eight years — sharing that honour perhaps with the Open University ’ . |
| 4 | Although there is no independent evidence for the behaviour of Basina , the name Basena is known from a silver ladle , dating perhaps to the sixth century , found at Weimar . |
| 5 | Well , there are strange little bits of old-fashioned good Englishness about , dating perhaps from the late forties , when city streets were safe and when people of good will in England were happy and even proud to see the end of Empire . |
| 6 | On the coach , as it headed north up the Woodstock Road , and thence out on to the A34 , the members of the touring party were mostly silent , their thoughts monopolised perhaps by the strange and tragic events they had left behind them in Oxford . |
| 7 | It is the totality of these new enclosures , beginning perhaps in the seventeenth century and increasing rapidly through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that , together with the industrial and urban development discussed in the following chapters . |
| 8 | Blunt object I was interested to note that your November cover star Marky Mark is apparently something of a born-again cockney , a fact betrayed perhaps by the self-descriptive rhyming slang on the front of his baseball cap … |
| 9 | The exception to this rule was Norfolk , but here clerical wealth must have reflected the yield of tithes in the leading cereal-producing region , momentarily augmented perhaps by the high grain prices of recent years . |
| 10 | Is it from some hitherto undiscovered animal , surviving perhaps in the Southern Continent ? ’ |
| 11 | Appreciated perhaps by the tonsured , or trilbied , shades of the past . |
| 12 | To the visitor , as opposed perhaps to the natural historian , these mountains still appear most luxuriantly and healthily treed . |
| 13 | What was the feeling when the Clause became law , then — frustration , anticlimax , anger perhaps with the British campaign ? |
| 14 | I think perhaps on the whole people understand that better than they used to . |
| 15 | But this project too hung fire , impeded perhaps by the conflicting duty to Cabestainh , perhaps by sun and wine , perhaps by distance — English lawns seemed far " away . |
| 16 | In the Republic of Ireland , the withdrawn of the pound sterling from the ERM had perhaps of the greatest impact . |
| 17 | The pace is often dilatory and this , reinforced perhaps by the nineteenth-century costumes and setting , can give the proceedings an at times bizarrely Checkhovian cast . |
| 18 | The study of such curves , originating perhaps in the Ancient Greek spiral , can be traced in modern times from the work of Giuseppe Peano in 1890 and Helge von Koch in 1904 to Mandelbrot 's book , Fractals : Form , Chance and Dimension ( 1977 ) . |
| 19 | There is even a list of offices which claims that a dux was in charge of twelve civitates , but although this text has been seen as a Merovingian document , it is almost certainly a school-book , originating perhaps in the British Isles . |
| 20 | Having plucked up the courage , he or she will find perhaps in the next room a course in Spanish or computer studies . |