Example sentences of "[verb] perhaps the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from indicating status , each church represents perhaps the most important local focal place for any settlement , and we might spend a lot of time studying it in our local research . |
| 2 | But the deliberate use of McCarthyism by the leaders of the Republican Party as a weapon against the Democrats offers perhaps the most convincing explanation of its success . |
| 3 | Around Newbury from one to three lives was the rule , while at Faringdon tenure was hereditary , reflecting perhaps the mainly pastoral economy of the district . |
| 4 | Not even Adams could believe that Linighan , felled and battered by a 19th minute elbow in the face from Wednesday 's Mark Bright , would be the man to provide perhaps the most fantastic finish to a four-hour saga which had been marked mostly by wretched mediocrity . |
| 5 | India has made perhaps the most dramatic move of all the shifting land masses . |
| 6 | Error , miscalculation or madness seemed perhaps the most likely cause of nuclear war in the early days , before the coming of the ‘ hot line ’ connecting the Kremlin and the White House in 1963 . |
| 7 | ISS sought to add to this by what has become perhaps the most famous aspect of the report , its philosophy of achievement as expressed in what it called the four aspects of achievement , namely |
| 8 | But Ruddock is history now as Lewis attempts to become the first Briton since Bob Fitzsimmons almost a century ago to land perhaps the most cherished prize in sport . |
| 9 | NOTING the column 's interest in football programmes , a reader sends perhaps the most improbable of all Roddymoor FC , Crook and District League Division One . |
| 10 | As the Carolingian Empire was declining , north and central Italy saw the rise of the city states , a progression that was to have perhaps the most profound influence on the history of Europe . |
| 11 | And in The Sea of Faith , Don Cupitt , Lecturer in Divinity and Dean of Emmanuel College , Cambridge , presented perhaps the most penetrating television study yet undertaken of Christianity today — a study containing statements far more contentious than those of the Bishop of Durham . |
| 12 | Lord Denning in Dutton v. Bognor Regis UDC [ 1972 ] I QB 375 ( CA ) highlighted perhaps the most important issue in setting the limits upon the scope of the duty of care in Donoghue v. Stevenson : |
| 13 | I think perhaps the most important thing is that voluntary agencies should do what they believe is right , and not allow their own objectives to be distorted , simply because a , of particular flavours , which is why I 'm saying let us grab the agenda and write the agenda , rather than have the agenda set for us by other people . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , the history of Venetian art in the first decade of the sixteenth century is still in many respects mysterious , not least in connection with Giorgione himself , whose oeuvre and development remains perhaps the most contentious single issue in the study of Italian Renaissance art . |
| 15 | The magazine became and remains perhaps the most important forum for the publication of outstanding new photography from around the world . |
| 16 | Calange had perhaps the most revolutionary Gore-Tex jacket , the LTD Pull On , made in an ultra lightweight ripstop nylon with the Gore-Tex membrane laminated to the lining . |
| 17 | Brannigan had perhaps the most convincing win in that he beat Darren Devers the strong Ballina boxer 10–4 to reach the light welter final . |
| 18 | ‘ If the Tories get in , I 'll go out and buy myself a new frock , ’ said perhaps the most influential man in British fashion . |
| 19 | It is a devastating blow to the latest Arab League peace plan , which — with parliament 's adoption of political and constitutional reforms and the election of the new president — had come to embody perhaps the most serious attempt of its kind to end the 14 ½-year war . |
| 20 | It is a devastating blow to the latest Arab League peace plan , which — with parliament 's adoption of political and constitutional reforms and the election of the new president — had come to embody perhaps the most serious attempt of its kind to end the 14 ½-year war . |
| 21 | Given that private conversations between journalists and politicians take place all the time as the former seek their exclusives and the latter seek to further their policies or careers ( or to wreck other people 's ) , it is strangely perverse to ignore perhaps the most authoritative off-the-record source of all , Mr Bernard Ingham . |
| 22 | Thus we can charge those who refuse to participate in the lobby with hypocrisy ( they use unattributed stories from other sources ) , perversity ( they ignore perhaps the most important source of all ) and of failing to do their job properly . |
| 23 | But if that is our conclusion , then we miss perhaps the most profound contribution this story has to make to theology and to faith . |
| 24 | Like a miniature expression of the whole , the tomb is defended on all sides by its own set of machicolated walls , built as if to keep the Angel of Death at bay ; they represent perhaps the most elaborate set of defences ever raised to protect a corpse . |
| 25 | Schering Chemicals v Falkman [ 1981 ] 2 WLR 848 provides perhaps the most extreme example of the obligation of confidence arising from disclosure for a limited purpose . |
| 26 | Klein provides perhaps the least teleological analysis of the development of a subject , and her examples of adult psychosis may be linked to Hegel 's , and especially Marx 's , models of rupture , since they appear to result from the subject 's belief in the alien nature of some fragmented aspects of the self it has become unable to sublate . |
| 27 | This makes perhaps the most inportant breeding area in Britain for this threatened bird — and bitterns can be seen from the hides here more regularly than anywhere else . |
| 28 | Striking Perhaps the most striking change you 'll see on your desktop is the toolbar along the top of the screen . |