Example sentences of "perhaps the [num ord] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was this , perhaps the first 5-point try scored in this country ? |
| 2 | The Commission 's action against Dennis Levine was perhaps the first major success . |
| 3 | Calvinist Ghent in the 1570s , Paris under the domination of the Catholic League were perhaps the first sustained exercises in popular power in the modern period , and even they did not last long . |
| 4 | Perhaps the first significant initiative came from France , although the Dutch politician , Sicco Mansholt , had already drafted a plan for agricultural free trade that would benefit Western Europe as a whole , but especially the cost-effective Netherlands agricultural industry . |
| 5 | But if Charles was the first Carolingian , and perhaps the first medieval king , to show an insider 's appreciation of contemporary scholarship , he had ( directly or indirectly ) his mother to thank . |
| 6 | Baldwin was perhaps the last Prime Minister to treat his Cabinet colleagues , as Gladstone had done , as members of a college of cardinals . |
| 7 | In 1932 it had captured international headlines when the church was attacked by a mob of evangelical bigots who went to work with sledgehammers , wrecking altars and destroying ornaments of which they disapproved ; perhaps the last violent twitch of the Puritan tail on English soil . |
| 8 | Perhaps the last feeble kick of this lust to print one 's name was the station platform and amusement arcade machine where , on inserting a penny , one was able to punch one 's name on a metal strip , which the contraption disgorged on the pull of a handle . |
| 9 | The next leader of the Labour Party , perhaps the next Prime Minister , could be the lad from Fairfield Terrace , Trimdon . |
| 10 | Indeed , the development of a set of assessment procedures which integrate structural , semantic and functional descriptions of language is perhaps the next major focus for clinical research . |
| 11 | Perhaps the next major project will be breeding , after growing on several of one species ! |