Example sentences of "[verb] perhaps the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so what he 's trying to do is to as Andrea says erm uncover the truth , get to the , get to what really happened as it were , under the layers of myth and distortion could have been introduced in the Bible story , and as I said if you read the book erm and it is quite fascinating in many ways , it is a bit like a detective story because what Freud does is he tries to get to the truth by analyzing the , the actual texts and the texts contains discrepancies and anybody who 's ever tried to erm edit a book , learns this to their cost actually , but er you find no matter how carefully you change things , there 's usually things you miss , little discrepancies that give away how it was the first time and er Freud 's view is this , this has happened very much to the Bible , it 's been so heavily edited and re-written and later the the various editings show and if you read it very critically , you can begin to see perhaps the underlying pattern er coming through and erm just as you can tell for instance by reading Genesis , that it 's a of two accounts because there are two stories , the first story is Chapter One of Genesis , then in Chapter Three or something there 's a second story repeats it with variations . |
| 2 | PGSS and Makaton have received perhaps the least evaluation . |
| 3 | Members in AIB Bank , in Britain , have received perhaps the greatest blow yet delivered to them , when the Mediator dealing with their outstanding salary claim came forward with his Recommendation . |
| 4 | Women were even more mobile , reflecting perhaps the large proportion who at some time of their life entered service and married extra-parochial partners . |
| 5 | Christopher Taylor has given perhaps the best example of this in a study of settlements in the Nene Valley . |
| 6 | The older ones are given perhaps the only education they 'll ever receive . |
| 7 | Of major industrial countries , certainly within Europe , Britain and Spain provide perhaps the widest variation on these factors . |
| 8 | This highlights perhaps the major difference between BR and RENFE in the way the machinery is used and the culture of industrial relations that has grown up around it : the handling of individual grievances . |
| 9 | Another crustacean , Copilia , has perhaps the strangest eye of all , for it scans the world in way very reminiscent of a television camera . |
| 10 | Goodchild ( 1988 ) has made perhaps the best summary of the problem and possible solutions to date . |
| 11 | But while the views expressed in the current policy statement are still valid , such declarations , which have never been sufficient to deter censorship in libraries , are now patently inadequate , in spite of being updated to reflect perhaps the differing rationale for censorship . |
| 12 | Death evoked perhaps the chief expression of traditional social life — every man in death commands a multitude . |
| 13 | The Frisian , Liudger , later bishop of Münster , was studying at York under Alcuin when civil disturbances at York , involving Frisians and presaging perhaps the eventual overthrow of Alhred , obliged Alcuin to send him back to Frisia . |
| 14 | The ( tutorial ) system therefore counters perhaps the greatest enemy of intellectual progress amongst undergraduates : the passive collection of unanalysed material . |
| 15 | I recently had news of the Mandarin Oriental Hotels Group , who give perhaps the best service to customers of any hotel group in the world . |
| 16 | Boundary disputes have become perhaps the classic setting for the presentation of bilateral claims in which third parties may claim an interest . |
| 17 | Carroll House apart , there was little else to cheer the British challengers , with the failure of Luca Cumani 's Kefaah in the Prix du Rond-Point providing perhaps the biggest disappointment . |
| 18 | Into the realm of inspiration , contacted perhaps the Universal Mind . |
| 19 | His own oeuvre , lacking perhaps the soaring inspiration of Paul De Lamerie [ q.v. ] or Paul Crespin , nevertheless places him in the first rank . |
| 20 | If his chances for the Presidency collapsed there is presumably no other job that he could have , failing perhaps the thankless task of China … |
| 21 | Ah that 's not so bad then , I thought perhaps the poor taxpayer was going to have to foot the bill . |
| 22 | Centre warden Damian Duggan felt perhaps the greatest need in Kingsley would be transport and Mrs. Telfer pointed out community care provided not just a taxi service but a friend as well . |
| 23 | The degree of colour mimicry is often startling , and has resulted in the cuckoo showing perhaps the greatest degree of colour variation in its eggs in the entire avian world . |
| 24 | Such signs of relative forgiveness on the part of the leaders he had persecuted so relentlessly in the past , particularly Deng Xiaoping , offer perhaps the clearest insight into Chen 's career : he had never been a political force in his own right but merely a faithful interpreter and executor of Mao 's will . |
| 25 | The task of uncovering , or recovering , the ideas and aspirations of these hidden majorities has been started , but remains perhaps the central project for historians in a democratic age . |
| 26 | He could also count on the co-operation of his brothers , Louis Duke of Anjou and Philip Duke of Burgundy , and in Bertrand du Guesclin he had perhaps the ablest commander on either side in this phase of the war . |
| 27 | The patrician Dynamius provides perhaps the best illustration of this . |
| 28 | It is shareholders who , at least in theory , appoint the chairman and should ensure a balanced board and therefore have perhaps the primary role in enforcing the Cadbury code . |
| 29 | I think I should mention we have perhaps the best library collection in Britain on developing country material , and if there is someone with a specialist need , they would be welcome to use our library . |