Example sentences of "and perhaps a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is indeed remarkable — and perhaps a comment on the tunnel vision of many in academic life — that no previous scholars have looked for the Belgian detective 's literary antecedents in the most obvious of sources , the Medieval Mystery Play . |
| 2 | It is important to realise that if the glider stops just within the boundary , another few feet of height could have meant a serious overshoot and perhaps a damaged aircraft . |
| 3 | Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought . |
| 4 | If he became excitable , I advised they gently apply the brake on the lead and calm Moby down with quiet words and perhaps a short ‘ sit ’ , before leading him off toward the dog or person again , allowing Moby to become used to their presence . |
| 5 | What a curious and deep shaft into English society is opened by the reflection that when reputations and perhaps a million pounds in costs alone are at stake , we revert to the patterns of upper-class education . |
| 6 | Mankind has a powerful desire to rationalise its actions ; and when people found themselves ten , twenty years after the First World War still paying housing subsidies , this desire to rationalise , and perhaps a natural sense of shame , forbade them to recognise that they were doing so merely out of unwillingness to recognise that 1914 prices and money values had gone for ever . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm not office-based — I 'll go to court duty one day , a prison visit the next and perhaps a home visit the following day , ’ she says . |
| 8 | A stranger to the district , coming over a brow of the hill , would have stopped astonished and perhaps a little peeved to see Ploughman 's Lane lying beneath him . |
| 9 | But in this month 's poll , the southern states will play a greater role than ever , and perhaps a decisive one . |
| 10 | If ever there was a perfect Queen Anne house , here it is , and perhaps a reason for its extra glow is its delicate restoration by the Mildmay family who came to live here in the 1870s . |
| 11 | ‘ … a little cottage , and perhaps a few chickens . |
| 12 | A follow-up study showed that very few of them ever had any higher ambition for using the money than buying a house or two for the family and perhaps a shop or pub . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's an exciting challenge , and I am confident , given time , thorough research and perhaps a little bit of luck , we will find them . ’ |
| 14 | Whichever route you choose , you have the opportunity to select precisely the style , layout , size , materials and finish you want , maybe even to add on an extension , with a room above the garage , and perhaps a workshop behind . |
| 15 | Modi 's reserve might have sprung from a desire to shield Jeanne from gossip , and perhaps a feeling of shame in front of a married man , at his own role in the affair . |
| 16 | The crucial question is whether the arbitrator 's is a typical authority , or whether the two features picked out above are peculiar to it and perhaps a few others , but are not characteristic of authorities in general . |
| 17 | He said that although he was personally quite happy with things as they were , he understood her doubts and perhaps a trial separation would resolve them one way or the other . |
| 18 | 1848 was a year of revolution throughout Europe , and many people in England feared that Chartism would bring revolution , and perhaps a Terror , to England . |
| 19 | There will certainly be a section where competitors will travel in pirogues ( boats ) pushed by poles and perhaps a paragliding section . ’ |
| 20 | He was actually turned down five times by NME and this had a lasting effect : frustration and perhaps a desire to avenge himself in its columns in later years . |
| 21 | Along the inland part of the fissure ordinary Hawaiian-type eruptions will take place , with lava being emitted quietly , and perhaps a bit of fire-fountaining . |
| 22 | A children 's party will go down well with a background fragrance of bergamot , orange or lemon , and perhaps a touch of geranium . |
| 23 | Recruits will normally have an informal interview with the manager and perhaps a senior worker in the bureau to which they have applied . |
| 24 | Fixed-dose syringes can be very useful , and perhaps a relative can draw up the insulin and the patient administer it . |
| 25 | For a week there would be seven different programmes : i.e. a brass band one night , a string quartet the next , followed by a small choir with soloists , and perhaps a pianist . |
| 26 | The hamlet I live in consists of thirty houses and perhaps a hundred souls and sits immediately astride the River Itchen . |
| 27 | Horse-drawn Corporation open-sided dust carts and perhaps a dozen men were brought into action and , after disposal of the worst of the refuse , the surface was well hosed . |
| 28 | P. P. I used to go down a street and perhaps a week previously I had locked that fellow up and I used to walk past him and if they said anything to me I 'd say , ‘ Shut up and get inside . ’ |
| 29 | The temptation is to rush out to lose one 's aloneness in all sorts of activities and perhaps a wild search for replacement company . |
| 30 | You may live within a few metres of many if not most of the plant and animal species ever recorded in Britain , and perhaps a few that are new to science . |