Example sentences of "perhaps [vb base] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mid-layers perhaps provide the most versatility in the layering set-up , and these days the buzz-word is fleece , that warm and cuddly fabric which took over where fibre-pile left off . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It remains to be seen whether this aspect of TNC proposals will be sufficiently flexible to aid the transition of a section of the population who perhaps deserve the most attention in our common concern to raise levels of achievement and improve the quality of educational provision . |
| 4 | If the Second World War is often regarded as the watershed of ‘ permissiveness ’ , then those with more educated tastes — who perhaps remember the precipitating crisis of the Public Order Act of 1936 and Mosley 's black shirts , or who might have read the descriptions of pre-war razor gangs in Graham Greene 's Brighton Rock — look back beyond the war before that , to the slumbering golden years of Edwardian England which is one of the most authoritative versions of the true location of the ‘ British way of life ’ . |
| 5 | John Locke perhaps set the classic pattern . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | perhaps cure the provincial credit brought to us . |
| 8 | I think to myself that I can serve in opposition , make my case and perhaps win the next election , so I accept the result . |
| 9 | Perhaps use the first names and put out the meaning of the first names of the |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The same thing , if somebody 's annoying you like that , ignore them like I said , I do n't mean I wo n't just let them sit there I 'll touch my brakes a couple of times perhaps do the old bit with the mirror and like I said , normally if they 're if they 're responsible drivers that have just happened , they got a bit close then maybe they 'll drop back as I 've done |
| 12 | So far AMP executives are not sure where the Pearl is going wrong nor what they would do about it , other than perhaps improve the British group 's technology and have more centralisation of the selling operations . |