Example sentences of "[adv] perhaps the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So perhaps the first thing to say is that , as with the story , there is a considerable art of the pacing of humour . |
| 2 | So perhaps the first thing about that continuum is that none of them are right or wrong we all dis-represent the ways of behaving and it 's very much a personal choice which one will use at one stage . |
| 3 | So perhaps the total inventory of species during warm times is , in practice , as high or even higher than in cooler times . |
| 4 | So perhaps the underlying philosophy is I win you lose yeah ? me , I 'm gon na win and gon na be loud and be aggressive , I 'm gon na stand over you , I 'm gon na stand very close to you , I 'm gon na point my finger at ya , I 'm gon na stare at you . |
| 5 | Otherwise that person having worked for four different employers during the forty years will not retire on two-thirds of final salary , but will retire on two-thirds er only perhaps the last employer for the last ten years . |
| 6 | Was I not perhaps the greatest fool in Christendom ? |
| 7 | ‘ Not perhaps the normal taste you might expect from a crew member . ’ |
| 8 | But damage limitation is not perhaps the best way to manage an election campaign when you are in opposition . |
| 9 | It suddenly struck him that this was not perhaps the best time to go into the history of the Established Church in England . |
| 10 | But it was true , what Jim said , in business you ca n't stand still , you go up or you go down , you ca n't just sit comfortably in your own 1972 executive four-bedroomed plate-glass-windowed centrally heated wall-to-wall-carpeted gadget-equipped house , with your Rover and your wife 's Mini in the two-car garage , and your pot plants in your loggia , and your electric lawn mower in the shed : you ca n't sit still and enjoy it , you ca n't call it a day and call a halt when you own it all and do n't owe anyone a penny , you have to go on and on , relentlessly onwards , juggling with larger and larger sums , owing more , paying out more , until finally perhaps the whole thing comes tumbling round your head like a pack of cards . |
| 11 | Public parks came in the 1840s , and public libraries a few years later ; later still perhaps the grandiose Town Hall , by no means always to be despised as architecture . |
| 12 | Hence the secrecy , and hence perhaps the vicious quarrel with Brampton , the rather effete manners of Master Buckingham , as well as the fact that Sir Thomas did not sleep with his wife . ’ |
| 13 | Inevitably perhaps the present style of objective test concentrates on the general rules and definitions , and the pupils resent time not spent on revising these . |
| 14 | The reception of the schema was at first fairly favourable , but gradually became more and more hostile , with Cardinal Heenan of Westminster emerging as perhaps the harshest critic . |
| 15 | Flatliners ' little hallucinatory moral dramas of American atonement ( and even perhaps the other ghost movies ) , have their roots in a different gimmick film Field Of Dreams , which turned the social and political divisions of the Sixties into a family affair which could be sorted by Kevin Costner throwing a baseball around with his ghost dad . |
| 16 | Here perhaps the political factor was more significant . |
| 17 | Here perhaps the simplest assembly situation is examined . |
| 18 | Oh well perhaps the new handyman was more |
| 19 | As nephew of the late king , Edward appeared to have a good claim , indeed perhaps the best claim , to succeed him . |
| 20 | This is as true of child protection work as of any other field , and indeed perhaps the very dangerousness of the work ( for professionals and clients alike ) and the appalling nature of some of the cruelties and neglects make such professional jealousy and prejudice all the more likely . |
| 21 | Mike Hawthorn had become Britain 's first World Champion in 1958 but the great British monopoly of the World Championship started in 1962 when Graham Hill won the first of his two titles , but then perhaps the greatest driver of the modern era , Jim Clark , won the first of his two titles in 1963 . |
| 22 | If all the etch-resist is completely stripped away in a short period of time , then perhaps the whole board has been exposed at some stage to too much UV light . |
| 23 | If he did not , then perhaps the whole action could stop — freeze — with him and his friends all captive together in this little Garden of Eden where there was no evil and only endless , unchanging cheerfulness . |
| 24 | Politically perhaps the biggest change is that a century ago the world economy was dominated by established European and imperial powers and their new rivals ( such as the USA and Germany ) . |