Example sentences of "[coord] perhaps [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | You may be attracted by an advertisement in your local paper , or perhaps reading the nursing press has aroused your interest . |
2 | It was he who ended the war with Athens , or perhaps turned the hot war into a cold one ( because satraps continued to subvert Athenian-supported democracies in Anatolia ) : after the Persian recovery of Egypt in the 450s Athenian aggression against Persia was checked , except for a brief campaign in Cyprus at the end of the 450s . |
3 | I think to myself that I can serve in opposition , make my case and perhaps win the next election , so I accept the result . |
4 | This afternoon you will be eager to get back into the saddle and perhaps visit the beautiful lake district around the picturesque village of Oud-Loosdrecht ( a gentle 1–½ hour round trip ) . |
5 | As the eldest son of a wealthy sake and soy-sauce producer in conservative Nagoya , he was expected to take over the family business — and perhaps become the 15th generation of Morita Mayors in the local community . |
6 | Had I had the receiver in my hand when some break in the conversation occurred at this point , I should have explained to you that it is in fact neither ; it is merely an examination of the various modes of thinking which the phrase implies — an examination which , in the tradition of British philosophical inquiry , seeks merely to study and perhaps oil the conceptual machinery and then to put it back more or less as it was . |
7 | Had he never existed , it is probable that the Almoravid Moors , under their fanatical leader Yusuf , would have overrun a far greater area of central Spain — and perhaps prevented the gradual blurring of the two cultures which produced the later kingdoms of Moorish Spain and thereafter the great empire of the sixteenth century . |
8 | Although the Laboratory was not meant to divulge any results to Alan until the eight-week period was over , it was decided that it might be better to know the results at six weeks , and perhaps to end the experimental diet at this point . |
9 | flexible cyst er flexible check cystoscopy early in the lower risk group patients , and perhaps give the intermediate and higher risk group patients prophylactic chemotherapy . |
10 | Indeed , his account of their interests gives the impression — and perhaps gave the same impression to Lanfranc — that they were a lot of old gossips chattering about wonders and miracles and gifts of relics , when they should have been engaged on more serious religious observances , or on the studies laid down in the Rule . |