Example sentences of "perhaps [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It deserves praise and a high recommendation , and should perhaps be sent to every politician . |
| 2 | AS WE SEARCH the economic indicators for those green shoots of recovery , we should , perhaps be looking too for other signs to help restore confidence in a book world currently so high on gloom . |
| 3 | The beauty and achievements of Bohemian art can perhaps be called Czech only with an effort , but there is no doubt of the attachment of a people to the heritage that they can rightly claim . |
| 4 | ( If someone drew a graph displaying numerical information about photos , this would perhaps be called a ‘ photo-graph ’ and the word would be regarded as a compound ) . |
| 5 | Participation could perhaps be increased if the event is planned beforehand ; for example , it might be an advantage if groups of children who all live in the same area arranged to meet and cycle to school together . |
| 6 | The next four instruments depend for their efficacy upon incorporation into contracts , though a codification of custom and usage could perhaps be relied on as the best evidence of custom and usage and as such be imported by implication into a contract , whilst the adoption of general contractual conditions is not the exclusive prerogative of private parties but can also be achieved by embodiment in bilateral or multilateral Conventions implemented by dispositive legislation in the various participating States . |
| 7 | And this conception leads inexorably to the view that experience is like a kind of screen , something which could perhaps be painted if only we had the skill and reflective capacity , or something which could be captured by language or music . |
| 8 | Huge cuts in EPA 's research Funds ( down by nearly 50 per cent since Reagan took office ) can perhaps be justified on the grounds that , in hard times , scientific priorities can be temporarily reshuffled with little or no long-term damage . |
| 9 | There is the possibility that though I myself would not be justified in making different claims , another person might perhaps be justified in saying that yesterday I did not know , while today I do . |
| 10 | A charge of provinciality might perhaps be justified , but the nobility of the design overrides the criticism . |
| 11 | The sense of urgency conveyed by the ‘ Look out ’ indicates the expectation that the pram , complete with baby , will fall over the cliff and perhaps be dashed on the rocks beneath and it is further assumed that this will be-deleterious for the baby . |
| 12 | It could perhaps be said that Miss Cotrubas came truly into her own with the operatic excerpts that provided the second half of her programme . |
| 13 | It can perhaps be said that the bereavement care teams who usually now come to help at such times are the public recognition of this phenomenon . |
| 14 | But it should perhaps be said that amateur boxers often avoid the excesses and the injuries of their professional colleagues , and the likes of Dick MacTaggart is a monument to sportsmanlike behaviour . |
| 15 | It will perhaps be said that , although there may be no inherent difficulty in establishing criteria of relevance to choices of means , the vagueness of ‘ Be aware ’ for choices of ends reduces it to meaninglessness as our proposed ‘ first principle ’ . |
| 16 | John Barber , in the Daily Telegraph , described Crawford as ‘ a winsome young comedian who recalls Harold Lloyd ’ and his performance as ‘ a continual delight ’ but added , ‘ It should perhaps be said that there is nothing pornographic in the show — nor , I am afraid , much wit or natural jollity . |
| 17 | However , it is not known whether the courts would accept this argument , because it can perhaps be said that the shares management acquire in Newco are acquired pursuant to ( though not causally connected to ) an opportunity offered to management ( namely to buy Target or its business ) by reason of their employment/directorships with the vendor or Target . |
| 18 | An alternative way of looking at it would perhaps be to say the Greater York Area is that area within ten miles of the city centre as is indicated by the third of the criteria set out in policy H two . |
| 19 | But his whole account can perhaps be understood so as to avoid such objections . |
| 20 | Oakeshott suggests that the state ‘ may perhaps be understood as an unresolved tension between the two irreconcilable dispositions represented by the words societas and universitas ’ . |
| 21 | Your review of two books on crime ( April 3rd ) makes the brazen statement that Italy ‘ can perhaps be forgiven for producing so many American gangsters . ’ |
| 22 | The cynic may perhaps be forgiven for commenting that the freedom given by the Use Classes Order and the GDO is so hedged by restrictions , and frequently so difficult to comprehend ( though he may note with relief that painting is not subject to control , unless it is ‘ for purpose of advertisement , announcement or direction ’ ) that it would be safer to assume that any operation constitutes development and requires planning permission . |
| 23 | ‘ The actual decision in the Manchester Corporation case can perhaps be supported , as Mr. Waterhouse suggested , on the argument that the libel there was not capable of referring to a corporation consisting ( as the plaintiffs did ) of the mayor , aldermen and citizens , and not , as here , of the chairman and councillors . |
| 24 | Those who have Rights of Common would receive an Equivalent for those Rights ; and even the Cottagers living on the Borders of the Forest , who , by our Information , at present waste their Time in pilfering in the Woods , would find useful Employment , from the Demand for Labour which the Inclosure and Improvement of the Wastes would create , and might perhaps be led to Habits of Industry . |
| 25 | Situations such as these could perhaps be redeemed by the farmer 's wife attending the course in his place . |
| 26 | ‘ Could Beatrice perhaps be getting a bit old in herself , ’ I had suggested , ‘ or could it perhaps be something to do with the accident she had as a child ? ’ |
| 27 | Er and and and so the the the policy would perhaps be extended . |
| 28 | The judges ' deliberate promotion of the Second Empire can perhaps be explained from the standpoint of patronage . |
| 29 | ( The discrepancy could perhaps be explained if it is assumed that there is also a weak preference to continue with the first-named character . ) |
| 30 | The fact that different dowsers can get very different results on the same site can perhaps be explained as the interaction between their own energy field and the field of the site , so that the dowsing patterns found can only have true meaning by looking at the dowser as well . |