Example sentences of "[be] perhaps the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one excludes cooking utensils , rugs are perhaps the only form of furnishing conducive to this nomadic way of life , because , when spread on the floor , they provide both a comfortable place to sit and a sanitary surface from which to eat food . |
| 2 | They are perhaps the perfect mix for America : a friendly logo , a psychedelic edge , a great show and an Englishness guaranteed to stir the Anglophile lurking in every American . |
| 3 | Laws are perhaps the best example of written , formal rules . |
| 4 | The quite extraordinarily polarised assessments of his life and work are perhaps the ultimate tribute to the enduring potency of his political and literary activities . |
| 5 | Butthole Surfers are perhaps the ultimate expression of hardcore 's predilections . |
| 6 | Most people find it easy to drink large quantities of calorific drinks , sweet or alcoholic , without in any way lessening or delaying their appetite for the next meal — and these drinks , and sugar itself , are perhaps the ultimate example of fibre-free calories . |
| 7 | There is even an enterprising individual who has put ads on cows grazing beside the London to Brighton railway line , while sandwich-boards and street criers are perhaps the oldest media of all . |
| 8 | The financial markets are perhaps the biggest gamble of all and the dividing line between " normal " risk-taking and compulsive gambling , sharp practice and even criminality can become exceedingly thin . |
| 9 | Graphic novels are perhaps the latest form of comic , an attempt to make it part of literature . |
| 10 | It is well known in the EFTA countries and in those of central Europe that Britain has been perhaps the strongest advocate of enlargement . |
| 11 | Writing to her sister soon after the auction , Virginia was already depreciating her own aesthetic taste and attempted with a joke to pre-empt any criticism : ‘ Monk 's House will be perhaps the ugliest house in Sussex . ’ |
| 12 | Eventually the elimination of exchange rate margins , with the establishment of a common currency recognized as being perhaps the best way of embodying this . |
| 13 | This attempt to be influenced by the maximum of factual knowledge is in a sense a rational way of trying to answer ethical questions ( this being perhaps the Stevensonian answer to the second question raised in the introduction ) , but it offers no guarantee of congruence . |
| 14 | These were perhaps the finest expressions of American station-building . |
| 15 | I think education committee is quite capable of making those kinds of decisions , and members , erm , that er , are representing rural areas are allowed to come along to education committee , and I think that 's perhaps the better way to , to go along those lines . |
| 16 | This brings out what is perhaps the essential feature of a security interest , namely , that ultimately it gives the holder of the security a proprietary claim over assets , normally the debtor 's , to secure payment of the debt . |
| 17 | All these things are related to the Izzat of the girl — saving her Izzat ( and through that their own Izzat ) is perhaps the greatest responsibility of her parents or guardian . |
| 18 | Pessimism about the nature of old age is perhaps the greatest enemy of a happy and fulfilled old age . |
| 19 | While I will put on Les Troyens , which is perhaps the greatest piece of audacity in the history of opera . |
| 20 | But the loss or gradual erosion of ties of affection is nevertheless a liberator of our criminality ; never to have experienced them is perhaps the greatest liberator of all . |
| 21 | As will be seen throughout this chapter , this is perhaps the central plank in the overall ideological position adopted by Mrs Whitehouse and the NVALA . |
| 22 | With the economy predicted to be on the upturn it is perhaps the right time for Allied to invest in the Firkin chain and cash in early on the next consumer boom . |
| 23 | contribution is perhaps the cruellest feature of the poll tax fiasco , placing a significant burden on those with the lowest incomes , including many pensioners , in places such as Bradford ? |
| 24 | Indeed fluidity — of both form and texture is perhaps the chief characteristic of a type of music so free and richly varied that it defies definition . |
| 25 | A refusal to espouse that principle is perhaps the only ground on which the omissions cases ( see 7.5(d) above ) can be defended , since their distinction between acts and omissions is unconvincing . |
| 26 | This sense of completeness , experienced in ( 2 ) by contrast with ( 1 ) is perhaps the one aspect of intensional structure which is purely linguistic : ( 1 ) angry residents ( 2 ) residents are angry |
| 27 | Whilst such an interpretation of three-dimensional spaces may create a slightly confused image when all three laminas are visible , it is perhaps the first step towards full modelling . |
| 28 | The concentration of neurons in ganglia is perhaps the first step towards building a brain , but even the appearance of a large head ganglion does not ensure that brains of the sort that humans and other mammals possess are the only design solution that can result . |
| 29 | Poverty and overcrowding are characteristic of the greater part of the Canning Town and Silvertown areas , which make up what is perhaps the largest part of unbroken depression in East London . |
| 30 | Williams Holdings is perhaps the classic example of the vulture purchaser . |