Example sentences of "perhaps [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , perhaps the election — even though the unexpected severity of Mr Smith 's budget towards the middle classes provided the unexpected issue — will turn on ‘ personalities ’ after all . |
| 2 | Perhaps the bird had been attacked by others , and so had to drop what he was carrying . |
| 3 | Perhaps the shoes helped , but she felt enormously cool and in command as she said coldly : |
| 4 | perhaps the assignment is not appropriate to them but the managing partner of the search firm may well feel that he or she has potential to be an executive search consultant . |
| 5 | Both Noah and Forget also offered the suggestion that perhaps the Americans had been caught napping because they were over confident . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps the King was upset by the business of the Council ? ’ |
| 7 | The Tôd cups were apparently offered as tribute from a Syrian king , perhaps the king of Byblos , which implies that there were complex and long-distance exchanges of goods in the twentieth century BC . |
| 8 | No doubt half the population of Paris could have been wiped out by a typhoid epidemic in 1788 , and perhaps the king would not then have been sent to the guillotine . |
| 9 | Perhaps his tactics were more skilful ; perhaps the gentry were reconciled to paying taxes by the prospect of gain from monastic lands ; perhaps the King was wise in these last years to avoid taxing the poor , from whom overt resistance had come in the past ; perhaps there was a genuine fear of invasion from France . |
| 10 | Perhaps the floor will smoulder , that is all . ’ |
| 11 | But if you do have pe people will say if you do h have those weaknesses and if er there were times that he could was quite up to the joshing and the name calling , there were times when he was n't , the very fact that there were times when he was n't , does n't that tell you that perhaps the Army was n't the place for him ? |
| 12 | You could use these to make up some smaller pictures for the bridesmaids , or perhaps the mothers of the newly married couple . |
| 13 | Perhaps the beagle , sorry , labrador , could help you . ’ |
| 14 | Burke was also invoked as a reminder that the cult of individualism is not the only , nor perhaps the chief , stream of the Tory tradition . |
| 15 | I can only take it that he was n't that concerned , that perhaps the Chief Constable does n't share Mr 's concerns , and is perhaps happy that he has received the generous funding that we state he has . |
| 16 | Perhaps the luck had been going our way recently . |
| 17 | Perhaps the sheep were monitoring the futures market in wool . |
| 18 | Whatever the case , the dunnock seems tolerant of colour variation in its eggs , so perhaps the cuckoo has no particular need to mimic them . |
| 19 | Perhaps the proof of the pudding can be seen in public attitudes , for no such projects can come to fruition without substantial support from the public . |
| 20 | Given such ambiguity , perhaps the notion of the inner city should be dropped altogether from academic analysis . |
| 21 | You might think that you could hardly have anything much simpler than the idea of zero or unity , or even perhaps the notion of number , erm sorry , but what , zero or unity , what Peano was proposing to do was to define these basic arithmetical ideas in terms of ideas simpler still . |
| 22 | Perhaps the birds are no more sinister than storks with a special delivery . |
| 23 | Perhaps the travel buoys him ; he certainly gets an energy charge from people . |
| 24 | Perhaps the Frank Slade role is a sign that Pacino is looking for something to stretch him , because he 's also about to embark on another slightly unusual project . |
| 25 | Perhaps the Gruagach had been following them , keeping just out of sight , waiting until they dismounted , ready to reach out and scoop them up and carry them back to Tara and the roasting spits … |
| 26 | Perhaps the meat fork from the shop would do nicely . |
| 27 | Perhaps the Greeks are emerging from the long , mesmerising spell that history has cast upon them ; perhaps they are coming out of their corner . |
| 28 | I think that perhaps the snake in alcohol was left too . |
| 29 | Perhaps the snake came through the air-vent many times before it killed Julia . |
| 30 | ( b ) Children as crew of spaceship , teacher as crew member , perhaps the guard on duty . |