Example sentences of "perhaps [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The water being pumped from the Dead Sea by existing machinery could contain lower concentrations of minerals , in which case water will have to be pumped from a greater depth ( perhaps 70 m ) where mineral concentrations will remain high . |
| 2 | Perhaps elated behaviour has evolved in connection with a rise in the hierarchy , depressive behaviour with a fall . |
| 3 | Perhaps neither side was prepared for open civil war once again , with its inevitable aftermath of executions and forfeitures . |
| 4 | There are no factual data that amalgamation of institutions has any advantages beyond economies of some central services such as catering and purchasing , and perhaps administrative convenience . |
| 5 | Rhetoric was a thing he would gladly have murdered ; and he had already carried out his theory of honest thinking at the expense of considerable financial and perhaps emotional sacrifices . |
| 6 | To conclude , in order to examine an area which is rarely focused upon in itself , it has been necessary in this chapter artificially to abstract the object , considering it in rather universalistic terms , and in relation to a perhaps overdrawn dichotomy with language . |
| 7 | As we will see in Chapter 18 , they may then form the basis for a multiple expansion of bank deposits ( money ) , with perhaps inflationary consequences . |
| 8 | If Marie Gibbs ' time course was right , I should expect to find a sequence of cellular changes in left and perhaps right IMHV and/ or LPO , associated with the several phases of memory formation , in the minutes to hours following the bird 's pecking at the bitter bead . |
| 9 | Receiving little help from the clipped dullness of Flor 's prosaic conducting , his uneasy fluctuations of tempo in the first movement , and in particular his tendency to rush spasmodically ahead of the beat , suggested a high degree of perhaps understandable nervousness . |
| 10 | So what you would see is the machine , as it were , engaging the patient in a much more perhaps conversational mode and with much more feedback and response to the way in which the patient is answering the questions or behaving , rather than just , as it were , a machine which elicits information from the patient and compares it with a statistical set of data . |
| 11 | From the rickety bridge I looked upwards to the waterfall , perhaps fifty feet above us ; at the spot where it vanished into ferns and flowers it was frothing like a diaphanous white ball gown . |
| 12 | I had travelled perhaps fifty yards . |
| 13 | I had gone perhaps fifty yards when I felt a bullet sing past my ear and heard the crack of a rifle-shot behind me . |
| 14 | Actually it was only a matter of perhaps fifty seconds before the first convulsive rattle of protest shook his ribs , and then she felt the first thread of breath drawn out long and fine under her coaxing fingers as she sat back from him . |
| 15 | Erm , circumstances which made someone , perhaps fifty years ago , considered to be the black sheep of the family , would n't necessarily be the same now . |
| 16 | I think that 's the same situation as with nuclear power , which has taken perhaps fifty years from its discovery to its application on a large scale . |
| 17 | In other words perhaps fifty percent of the spending on I T is wasted in inverted commas because it 's simply concerned with tying together what you already have with the new stuff that you want to integrate in . |
| 18 | And this leads to the last and perhaps greatest check on popular sovereignty in the age of Pericles , namely Pericles himself . |
| 19 | The reverse slopes up to Fort St. Michel on the Right Bank , where Pastre 's battery was sited , were crammed with every calibre of gun ; it was ‘ nothing more than one immense battery , there are perhaps 500 pieces there . ’ |
| 20 | For one skate , on loan , to go round the block ( a distance of perhaps 500 yards ) the cost was one penny ; for two skates , two pennies ; any kid who took longer than 10 minutes ( thus being under suspicion of going further ) would be fined another two pence — or punched on the nose . |
| 21 | One final point on the relationship of social class to crime : it may not be low social class in itself which is associated with crime , but rather that low social class is liable to be linked with other factors , perhaps parental criminality , deprivation or inadequacy of some kind , which might predispose individuals brought up in certain social classes toward criminality . |
| 22 | Perhaps economic forecasters and consultants should consider the beam in their own eye before criticising the Government 's figures . |
| 23 | If all the leading players were to head elsewhere it might actually make it easier for the WPGET to cater for those left behind with a series of small tournaments ; perhaps multi-sponsored events in the £30,000 bracket — a small sum when set against the £300,000 prize fund for this year 's Weetabix British Open , but a realistic figure at which to aim . |
| 24 | Perhaps that principle could be applied to other opportunity areas . |
| 25 | Perhaps that story , too , was inaccurate . |
| 26 | Basset 's eldest daughter , however , had married Hugh le Despenser [ q.v. ] , one of Montfort 's closest associates , and perhaps that tie , together with the role of his father in 1258 , influenced Fitzjohn 's political sympathies . |
| 27 | Perhaps that type of patronage was of small value in comparison with the need to provide employment for friends , but it was all grist to the mill of a politician intent on keeping his interest solidly united , and it was certainly not scorned by those with bursaries in their gift . |
| 28 | Perhaps that waistcoat is one of your own designs ? ’ she enquired . |
| 29 | She finds herself to be even more mysterious than she knew , rather like her author , who likes to say that ‘ I have another person within , and it is perhaps that person who writes my books ’ . |
| 30 | Undoubtedly , some of you will be , but there must be one or two people who are actually dreading Christmas er bearing in mind that they 've had to ask somebody whom they do n't really want in their house , or perhaps that person or people have asked themselves , and it 's very difficult to know how to refuse is n't it really ? |