Example sentences of "good [coord] perhaps the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite that , there are many cases when hill climbing is the best or perhaps the only practical approach : |
| 2 | There , contrary to expectation , primary schools are of the two to three teacher type even in the heavily populated Punjab province , partly because of the village concept of life and partly because the community structure makes this the best and perhaps the only acceptable form of organisation . |
| 3 | ‘ Many sub-units of companies simply can not be measured by revenue , contributions to profits , or costs related to output units … for a department of this kind , the best and perhaps the only measure of performance is achievement of predetermined programmes within budgets . ’ |
| 4 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 5 | He therefore considered them of a tradition quite different from that form of conservatism — so admirably defined by Russell Kirk in his study Eliot and his Age ( 1971 , 1984 ) — which , as Eliot said to me more than once , was the best and perhaps the only defence against the extremes of Communism and Fascism . |