Example sentences of "[noun] perhaps [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since the time of Jean-Jacques Rousseau there has been art whose aim has been the renewal of society , but it has had no effect beyond that of producing testimonials ( even if controversial ones ) of what we call the ‘ real ’ world , in contrast perhaps with the unreal world of art . |
| 2 | At the present time SDRs constitute only 2 per cent of countries ' official reserves — some measure perhaps of the limited contribution of SDRs . |
| 3 | About 17% across the programme are day patients in hospitals , going for industrial therapy perhaps in the younger age groups . |
| 4 | So , that morning presented a wonderful opportunity — and just a little compensation perhaps for the huge disappointment Kemp must undoubtedly have experienced over the theft of the Wolvercote Tongue . |
| 5 | It means giving a word of knowledge or prophecy perhaps for the first time . |
| 6 | Erm , it 's very much shorter because as we were saying earlier on the the short take off and landing capability , erm with er I 'd prefer to talk about distances perhaps in the closed session but the er the simple answer is very much . |
| 7 | erm Indeed one of the sad things perhaps at the lowest level is how many jobs are requiring mathematical skills that , that perhaps twenty years ago were n't assumed . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't know if it should be that important if everything we do is based on good sound scientific principles , because if people perhaps in the same industry are situated in different places in the estuary , y'know , if one was to point the finger at the other and say ‘ But you allow him to discharge such and such and you only let us do this ’ , then we should be able to turn round and say , ‘ Ah yes , but you 're discharging in a different place and the river quality in this different place needs different treatment . ’ |
| 9 | but something on the outskirts of the Garden City might be O K perhaps on the northern side |
| 10 | thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them . |
| 11 | Well sometimes they did n't do that f for reason , perhaps a driver missed his duty or there was a defect on the bus and you used to get a record each day of what we call lost mileage or an extra mileage perhaps on the odd occasion when an extra journey was run but erm the lost mileage was recorded and say you had this bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles , it did n't for some reason complete its erm hundred percent journey , you 'd take that off and then record against that bus that , that run say hundred and twenty miles . |