Example sentences of "[coord] perhaps [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Many children and teenagers ‘ earn ’ their rides by mucking out , grooming , cleaning tack or perhaps leading beginners in return for the occasional free ride .
2 Regrettably it seems that with age , and perhaps successive generations in captivity , the red diminishes , but it is still a very striking fish .
3 There is considerable variation in the extent to which cyanogenic properties are expressed and there is some seasonal and perhaps other causes of variation in expression .
4 Walters observes : ‘ unfortunately , it is so often the case that it is the painful , extreme , and perhaps rare effects of punishment that are stressed while the ‘ thorns and little shocks ’ that occur day in and day out which may ceaselessly , slowly and effectively change our habits and , indeed , our destinies are ignored . ’
5 There could be exhibitions of the best tapestries and textiles , the finest portraiture , the most outstanding silver ; or the best of a certain period drawn together from National Trust houses ; and perhaps linked displays on craftmanship , techniques , restoration and conservation .
6 On the other hand , there are different levels and degrees of both conformity and dissent , and in a context where prevailing versions of good practice tended to emphasize the visual and organizational , a strategic surface conformity allowed the more subtle and perhaps significant aspects of practice to be retained and underlying attitudes and assumptions to persist .
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