Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] perhaps the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it may be the Regional Association or perhaps the local estuary er Sailing Association is first contacted and what will happen er when one is contacted is that you will come into contact with environmentalists and conservationists and not all environmentalists and conservationists are quite as af affable and conciliatory as I am , some can be quite confrontational and therefore there will be the need for a considerable amount of lip biting and self restraint . |
| 2 | Thomas Bewick of Newcastle was the pioneer and perhaps the greatest exponent of this art ; his History of British Birds of 1797–1804 was a splendid example of what could be done , although his text was of no scientific significance . |
| 3 | Methods of conducting evaluation such as classroom observation and surveys of opinion within school were entirely absent from the appraisal and perhaps the only wide-scale method used was that of departmental discussion . |
| 4 | World spatial systems afford an enormous scope for review but perhaps the dominant trend has been towards the differentiation of the earth 's surface on a more realist dynamic basis to replace a more static arid functional treatment that had been current previously . |
| 5 | The CIA ( with some assistance from British intelligence and perhaps the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company itself ) was poised to act against Mussadeq . |
| 6 | Some Romanians , however , saw the emergence of General Jaruzelski and his apparently successful suppression of Solidarity after 13 December 1981 , as a good omen : perhaps , the local incompetent might be replaced by a reliable general and perhaps the Soviet Union would not mind either . |
| 7 | The omission of the second ( the social/economic system ) leads to a purely technocratic and physical study of the processes of soil erosion and perhaps the immediate land-uses leading to it , without any analysis of other political economic relationships at the local , regional and international scales which determine the actions of the land-user in the affected area . |
| 8 | THE MARS bar has many claims to fame but perhaps the strangest is its use as a guide to the economy , particularly the cost of living . |
| 9 | The Guernsey 's horns today are more commonly like those of the Isigny but perhaps the smaller Alderney owed little to the Isigny and more to the Léon . |
| 10 | Sometimes there is a curious line of dots curved into an arc shape , which may be taken to represent a rainbow or perhaps the Milky Way . |
| 11 | Theorists tell us it ought to look more like a symphony orchestra or a hospital or perhaps the British Raj . |
| 12 | The nomads are the poorest people in the world and perhaps the richest spiritually . |
| 13 | You may ask me then : ‘ Why do n't we do just that ? why has there been this passionate search for some other method of preventing the fall in the value of money or controlling the fall in the value of money , if a cause and perhaps the major cause is undisputed , assessable and obvious ? ’ |
| 14 | Nine months or a year 's time we may have a different animal working in that office and it may well be some person who has who does some J L O work to supplement John and does some project work , now er Jackie has indicated she 'd love to fill that role , and we all know what project she 'd want to be doing it , but er if we do put somebody in that role they will be project officer as well and on the wall will be a year planner and it 'll have things like crucial crew gala day and all these major major things and that particular officer will work quite closely with the new Pat and they 'll be able to take some of the weight off our shoulders so when we start planning for something like crucial crew you can delegate some of the work to the project officer and perhaps the other sergeant Now I know things do n't always work out quite that straightforwardly but you know the last year has been a bastard of a year for us in terms of sickness , four S L O's have been on long-term sick we 've lost Pat for all that time Jed was off for quite a while |
| 15 | At Stockwell Manor School we meet a certain amount of competition for the working areas and sometimes need to round-up hordes of energetic youngsters who have invaded the gym or perhaps the quiet concentration of a theory lesson is assailed by a steel band at full volume . |
| 16 | Now internationally recognized as a result of The Age of Unreason , a book that encapsulates most of his thinking on the future of work and organisations — for example , the concepts of ‘ portfolio ’ work for the over-50s , the ‘ shamrock ’ company with a small permanent core and contracted-out services — Handy is Britain 's only world-class guru and perhaps the closest thinker to Drucker in his range of predictive ideas on society . |