Example sentences of "perhaps no [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps no exaggeration to suggest that the weather saved France from a catastrophic defeat , for by 21 February there were still only two French divisions in position , facing six German divisions and their massed arsenal . |
| 2 | I HAVE always suffered from an easily bruised ego ( the result of either too early , too late , or perhaps no toilet training ) . |
| 3 | This kind of art 's often referred to as minimal art , which helps , you know , like most stables there 's a quite way of referring to stuff , and indeed very often this kind of art relates to very simple forms , which just one colour , or perhaps no colour if it 's a piece of wood for instance , or a large canvass covered with just one colour , a monochrome canvas — you referred to monochromes earlier . |
| 4 | Perhaps no society which had surmounted such a trial could consider itself as simply one power amongst many . |
| 5 | And , the way things had been going for Gerhard Berger , it was perhaps no surprise that it should be his McLaren which would suffer that fate . |
| 6 | It is perhaps no surprise that there is a close correspondence between the themes announced in The Achievements and on the Augustan coinage : his restoration of the Republican constitution , his new name ‘ Augustus ’ , his personal subventions to the public treasury , his repair of roads and building of temples , his restoration of military standards from Spain , Gaul and Parthia . |
| 7 | The dramaturgical metaphor would suggest that we look to the audience for the arbitration of the action , and it is perhaps no surprise that the peer group emerged as crucial in this respect . |
| 8 | A single fallen leaf can smother a wide area of seedlings and it is perhaps no surprise then to learn that it has such a large seed , which could not only penetrate this mass but have enough stores to supply a seedling as it grew up through it . |
| 9 | AGRICULTURE remains a hazardous occupation which is perhaps no surprise for an industry in which mechanisation has replaced human labour on farms . |
| 10 | To save us from ourselves , it is perhaps no coincidence that God chose the humblest and the least affluent circumstances through which to announce Himself . |
| 11 | It was perhaps no coincidence that French was adopted by English departments of state during the Anglo-French rapprochement of that time . |
| 12 | It 's perhaps no coincidence that this , like three other memorable performances , two of them listed above ( Jurinac and Schwarzkopf — both EMI ) — the third is Flagstad 's with Fürtwangler , occasionally available on ‘ unofficial ’ discs — are taken from live events , because an audience obviously helps the singers to communicate that much more intensely . |
| 13 | The principate of Severus probably saw the greatest expansion , and it is perhaps no coincidence that it may have been he who introduced the annona militaris , a tax paid in grain or other materials to meet the needs of the army . |
| 14 | [ … ] It is perhaps no coincidence that only when one is prepared to recognize that the firm is based on authority do issues of power come to the fore in the theory of the firm . |
| 15 | One of the rockets has been destroyed and it is decided only Valerie and one other member of the group can return home , leaving perhaps no hope of rescue for the others . |
| 16 | It was perhaps no wonder that his ‘ quiet , nice ’ wife had hair that had gone white by the time she was thirty . |
| 17 | It was perhaps no wonder that he reacted against the spartan , puritanical environment of Potsdam . |
| 18 | Perhaps no man alive could tell . |
| 19 | Perhaps no player has ever been quite as competitive as Botham , and if his combativeness has led him into trouble off the field it has generally worked in his favour on it — except when he has refused to part with the ball despite not bowling well , or when he has holed out in the deep when a more circumspect approach was required . |
| 20 | As well as penalties laid down for breaking the contract ( perhaps no evenings out for a given period ? ) , there need to be rewards for keeping it , perhaps in the form of a family treat . |
| 21 | It is perhaps no accident that these two branching hierarchies , which are the only types of any general lexical significance , have relations of dominance which are not merely differentiable , but which in some sense are inherently differentiated . |
| 22 | Perhaps no ballet has ever made the same impact on dancers and audience as Stravinsky 's Rite of Spring . |
| 23 | There is perhaps no phase in the moral history of mankind of a deeper or more painful interest than this ascetic epidemic . |
| 24 | Maybe , but perhaps no estimate would have been low enough . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps no food for hours , and two mega-pills , has got something to do with it . ’ |