Example sentences of "can perhaps [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But his whole account can perhaps be understood so as to avoid such objections . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is at this stage that we can perhaps be of most use by pointing out that that is mostly what grief is about . |
| 5 | The attitude to the Belgian state within that country can perhaps be illustrated by an anecdote . |
| 6 | The relation between the effects of habituation and those implied by the Pearce — Hall model can perhaps be made clear if we adopt the elaboration offered by Liddell ( 1950 ) of Pavlov 's notion of the orienting reflex . |
| 7 | But it can perhaps be seen as an architectural expression of that scented fin de siècle fascination with the Near East that produced in this period such works as Massenet 's opera Thaïs and Strauss 's Salome and the luxuriant novels of Pierre Loti and Pierre Louys . |
| 8 | The dismal nature of English teaching for O and A level in the past can perhaps be accounted for largely by the numbers of pupils entered for the examinations who were not in fact suited to study literature ( though they might have benefited from an advanced study of their own language ) . |
| 9 | The judges ' deliberate promotion of the Second Empire can perhaps be explained from the standpoint of patronage . |
| 10 | The value of Gerry Queen to Crystal Palace can perhaps be measured by the fact that he was easily our top scorer in Division One between 1969 and 1973 , with 24 top-flight goals , while his 1– strikes in 1969–71 represented a quarter of our total tally in those two seasons . |
| 11 | Although these , and similar objects , are small in scale , this belies their importance to bird conservation in the county as a whole in view of the rapid decline of certain bird feeding can perhaps be mentioned as a considerable benefit to certain bird populations . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | However , the task of transferring the central focus from the child to the older relative has not yet been attempted , and this chapter can perhaps be viewed as a small beginning to such a process . |
| 15 | The underlying ideas are very complicated ; they can perhaps be most easily visualized in terms of Schrödinger 's cat . |
| 16 | The sensitivity of the issue however , can perhaps be gauged by the fact that America 's hottest prospect , Venus Williams , from Los Angeles , was invited to the workshop , but refused to attend . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | Anderson and Roberts can perhaps be seen as offering us different facets of essentially a similar situation , where feelings of affection and concepts of duty are taken into calculations about mutual advantage based on material considerations . |
| 19 | The postclassical version of human rationality and motivation can perhaps be illustrated by taking a simple example — my relationship with the laws against speeding when I am driving home late at night . |
| 20 | The distinctive features of concentration , conglomeration and internationalization as they developed into the 1980s can perhaps be described as their scope , scale , management , balance and volatility . |
| 21 | The reason can perhaps be found in the fact that company law as an academic discipline boasts no long and distinguished pedigree . |
| 22 | This ‘ determined hostility of the Socialist Party generally and of the Trade Union movement in particular ’ which Leo Amery later described as a ‘ curious feature ’ ( Amery , 1955 , p. 206 ) of the movement for family allowances can perhaps be explained by two factors . |
| 23 | The problem can perhaps be addressed from the standpoint of theory . |
| 24 | This concept can perhaps be more readily appreciated by looking at Fig. 1.1 which also clearly indicates that whilst the elements of Q are totally distinct from those of Q[x] , nonetheless Q[x] contains the subsystem Q which to all intents and purposes is the " same " as Q so that , if it proves convenient , Q may be identified with it . |
| 25 | Proof-pulling for instance can perhaps be regarded as a mixed process , requiring both strength and skill . |
| 26 | The need for such periodic major reports can perhaps be attributed to the structures of authority and seniority in the professions , which seem to necessitate periodic revolution rather than the research-led rolling evolution which is more typical of ‘ academic ’ subjects . |
| 27 | The difference between the two contextual effects can perhaps be approached initially by considering two corresponding ways in which a word form , in a single context , may be open to more than one interpretation . |
| 28 | The other is that the English landscape has never been static but has always been changing , for better or worse Today we are passing through a period which can perhaps be regarded as a disaster . |
| 29 | Penality can also be found ‘ at every bloody level ’ , although it can perhaps be roughly divided into ( material ) penal practices and ( ideological ) penal rhetoric . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |