Example sentences of "or perhaps [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stonehenge is incomprehensible until we realize that the builders used some kind of scaffolding , or perhaps ramps of earth , which are no longer there . |
| 2 | As far as he was concerned , homosexuality did not exist north of Hampstead ( or perhaps south of it , either ) and despite the fact that its local manifestation was sitting in front of him he would not be convinced . |
| 3 | John Price ( 1968 ) has made two suggestions : perhaps temporary moods of pessimistic caution have proved to be advantageous in avoiding predators , or perhaps depressive behaviour has evolved as part of the complex behaviour which maintains the stability of man 's community . |
| 4 | Of reverence for death , or perhaps decorum … |
| 5 | If your target audience includes a substantial proportion of light viewers , but your campaign is on TV , you may need to supplement TV with suitable press or perhaps cinema advertising to reach this group . |
| 6 | One of the most striking features of IBM 's lamentable personal computer business is that there is not a single reason embedded in the hardware why IBM mainframe and AS/400 users should buy their personal computers from IBM rather than from its army of tormentors led by Compaq Computer Corp : presumably few customers have actually asked IBM for 3270 and 5250 emulation in ROM on the motherboard at no extra charge in its PS/2s — or perhaps IBM thought that would kill off its dumb tube business and resisted until it was too late — now it makes no money on personal computers and sells few dumb tubes . |
| 7 | The solution may be to use oestrogen cream , or perhaps hormone replacement therapy , for which you 'd need to see your doctor again . |
| 8 | ‘ Opportunity — or perhaps willingness to do it . |
| 9 | The advantage of budgeting is that not only do you know exactly where you stand — or perhaps stagger ? — today , but that you can make sensible judgements about , for , how much more saving you can undertake , or whether you can afford to increase your borrowing still further . |
| 10 | Well I expect your father will have to take us out or perhaps Anne 'll pick us up . |
| 11 | Related uses for pagers could include motorway service stations or perhaps breweries . |
| 12 | Or perhaps London had betrayed me. lt had been done before , it would be done again . |
| 13 | Perhaps the cosmological density is well below the critical value ( despite the anticipation of theorists ) or perhaps models of cosmological nucleosynthesis must be revised ( as some people have already asserted ) . |
| 14 | Or perhaps Romania could be the testing ground for co-operation between Nato and the Warsaw Pact and they should mount a joint expeditionary force . |
| 15 | His voice was cool , with amusement or perhaps derision . |
| 16 | I had once found two names scratched on one of the window-panes , ‘ perhaps two soldiers billeted here for a time at the beginning of the 1914 War … ’ ( or perhaps soldiers in hiding at the time of the Reformation ? ) |
| 17 | To cheer this up a little or to add an interesting note , you could add a touch of ylang-ylang , taget , bergamot or perhaps frankincense . |
| 18 | The answer can not be given by considering whether in the context of utterance it is likely to produce attitudes of some distinctively ethical sort , rather than some non-ethical attitudes or perhaps beliefs . |
| 19 | Or perhaps values have changed since they first joined . |
| 20 | Or perhaps Argol had an enlightened policy towards young people . |
| 21 | ‘ I had hoped that Bishop Julian or perhaps Rosalind might be of use here . |
| 22 | Or perhaps Mrs A is holding forth on her views on battered wives or battery hens or baptizing babies , really with the hope of having a head-on argument or of converting someone to her way of thinking . |
| 23 | Much will depend on where they were trained and whether they are skilled in other therapies and techniques such as reflexology ( pressure point massage of the feet ) , Touch For Health ( muscle testing , a diagnostic technique ) , medical herbalism , spiritual healing or perhaps nutrition . |
| 24 | The town or perhaps village was south of Bristol . |
| 25 | Or perhaps OS/2 simply solved problems that do not trouble most customers . |
| 26 | The current chapter will discuss ways in which all levels of analysis can suggest alternative or additional candidate letters , words ( or perhaps phrases ) in order to supplement information from the pattern level . |
| 27 | If Tommy Carr played for say Carlow , or perhaps Sligo or maybe Fermanagh , would there have been the same fuss ? |
| 28 | Other useful devices include printers to provide printed text or perhaps graphics as well , voice input , joystick controls , as well as graphics tablets , touch keyboards and light pens enabling flexible touch input and ‘ freehand ’ drawing input . |
| 29 | Recently , it has been shown that the injection of wheat germ agglutinin ( WGA ) coupled to labels such as colloidal gold or HRP produces effective labelling of cells lining the amniotic cavity ( 24 ) , It is likely that other high molecular weight molecules which will bind to epiblast or ectoderm cells , such as other lectins or perhaps antibodies ( see Chapter 2 , Section 4 ) , may prove suitable labels for selectively marking these cells or cells lining other cavities in the embryo . |
| 30 | But in the context of a consideration of judicial creativity , or perhaps lack of it , the selection of the judiciary and their ‘ politics ’ in the sense used by Professor Griffith seem to be marginal considerations . |