Example sentences of "[coord] perhaps [art] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Either the salt would sting into a cut or raw spot on my body , bringing back bodily feeling in one fell swoop , or else , from somewhere in the bowels of building , my ears , questing for the remotest of stimuli , would pick up on the sound of a toilet being flushed , or perhaps a trolley banging against a wall . |
| 2 | The researchers offer several possible explanations for toads making the occasional move : conditions in the initial pond may deteriorate ; a male may be carried to a new pond by a female with whom he has paired before reaching the water ; or perhaps a toad encounters a new pond on the way to its old one . |
| 3 | Or perhaps a tongue stuck out would be even more so . |
| 4 | In determining whether the offer of alternative work is suitable , the tribunal takes into account factors such as status , skills required , pay , hours of work and whether it involves additional travelling time and/or expense or perhaps a need to move house . |
| 5 | Could it be the years of experience it takes to know where the grape is just ripe or perhaps the skill needed to reach that perfectly balanced wine . |
| 6 | Perhaps it is the habitual leader of the group or perhaps the leader has arisen for that meeting on that topic . |
| 7 | Or perhaps the teacher takes on the role of the Pied Piper and tells the class ( still as townspeople ) that they can write letters to their children ( out of role the teacher could suggest these might be in code ) ; the drama might focus on negotiations between the townspeople and the Pied Piper . |
| 8 | In any event , knowledge within the firm of the identity of the intermediary 's client may not identify him if the salesman or perhaps the dealer concerned did not know either that the intermediary was acting as intermediary or the identity of the client ; this is a Chinese wall-type question . |
| 9 | Ruth was n't conscious of moving , but perhaps she shivered — or perhaps the light touched her , reminding Fincara she was there . |
| 10 | Or perhaps the car has really given up and it 's time for a new , or good second-hand one . |
| 11 | Despite the tears , Athelstan still wondered if her adultery made her an assassin or perhaps an accomplice to murder . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not office-based — I 'll go to court duty one day , a prison visit the next and perhaps a home visit the following day , ’ she says . |
| 13 | The postal service was rather vague in these remote villages , and perhaps a letter had gone astray , for when we arrived at what we thought would be our host 's house , we found that the old perpetua did not know we were coming . |
| 14 | It is not inconceivable that the parts were doubled , thus involving six players , and perhaps a bassoon played the bass line while Hymen sang . |
| 15 | He was actually turned down five times by NME and this had a lasting effect : frustration and perhaps a desire to avenge himself in its columns in later years . |
| 16 | I suppose she was in the kitchen , perhaps avoiding me , and perhaps the boy had been instructed to entertain me . |
| 17 | Anywhere outside a Communist state — and perhaps the time looks like coming when even that qualification will be superfluous — this is done by seeking to secure the largest possible return on capital . |
| 18 | The Poles took the matter seriously , but the League of Nations , saying that no-one had been hurt and perhaps the revolver had not been loaded , took no action . |
| 19 | These findings were consistent with the idea that REM sleep , and perhaps the dreaming associated with it was especially important , perhaps representing the most important function of sleeping . |
| 20 | The most substantial of them farmed sufficient land to earn themselves the description of yeoman ; the poorest had merely an acre or two and perhaps the right to keep a cow and some sheep on the common . |
| 21 | He restricts himself to an account of the ground forces , so there is no coverage of the role played by the South African air force , for instance , and perhaps the distinction drawn by Britain at the outset of the war between the old Dominions and the members of the new Commonwealth which it regarded as a security risk could have been more strongly emphasized . |
| 22 | Although the building is of more or less one period , it is still nonetheless a higgledy-piggledy place to find one 's way about in , as though the builders had not planned it as a whole but acted on whims and perhaps the need to accommodate an expanding family . |
| 23 | ‘ An excellent cake , miss , but perhaps a trifle overbaked , ’ Chignell said delicately , when Breeze remarked with a sigh that it might have been almond rock . |
| 24 | But perhaps the child does n't have the skill or experience to do it alone . |
| 25 | Many will not argue with Stern 's wish to ‘ uplift ’ through entertainment architecture , but perhaps the presentation calls for inquiry . |
| 26 | But perhaps the government has a fifth , and this one will prevail . |
| 27 | This land did not belong to the Ikhwan , but perhaps the secretary thought to confer an aura of legitimacy on the grant by getting the consent of the erstwhile administrators of it . |
| 28 | But perhaps the machine has taken over from the individual . |
| 29 | But perhaps the joke had had a serious point to it too , or at any rate a serious side-effect : it had enabled Hilda to get her side of the story over to posterity . |