Example sentences of "and perhaps the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nine months or a year 's time we may have a different animal working in that office and it may well be some person who has who does some J L O work to supplement John and does some project work , now er Jackie has indicated she 'd love to fill that role , and we all know what project she 'd want to be doing it , but er if we do put somebody in that role they will be project officer as well and on the wall will be a year planner and it 'll have things like crucial crew gala day and all these major major things and that particular officer will work quite closely with the new Pat and they 'll be able to take some of the weight off our shoulders so when we start planning for something like crucial crew you can delegate some of the work to the project officer and perhaps the other sergeant Now I know things do n't always work out quite that straightforwardly but you know the last year has been a bastard of a year for us in terms of sickness , four S L O's have been on long-term sick we 've lost Pat for all that time Jed was off for quite a while |
| 2 | Turkey with all the trimmings , the Queen 's speech ‘ on the box ’ , and perhaps the odd drink or mince pie too many . |
| 3 | He died young , and perhaps the poor devil was lucky . ’ |
| 4 | Some Romanians , however , saw the emergence of General Jaruzelski and his apparently successful suppression of Solidarity after 13 December 1981 , as a good omen : perhaps , the local incompetent might be replaced by a reliable general and perhaps the Soviet Union would not mind either . |
| 5 | The latest and perhaps the final pronouncement on the so-called Walhein direction was made by Lord Lane C.J. presiding in a court of five judges in Reg. v. Watson [ 1988 ] Q.B . |
| 6 | You may ask me then : ‘ Why do n't we do just that ? why has there been this passionate search for some other method of preventing the fall in the value of money or controlling the fall in the value of money , if a cause and perhaps the major cause is undisputed , assessable and obvious ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Modigliani worked on the painting , an unusually long time for him and perhaps the only time when he agreed to ‘ continue ’ a painting . |
| 11 | He has n't seen her before , and perhaps the only woman he 's seen me with is his mother . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , many astrophysicists remain unconvinced by the current evidence , and perhaps the only point of general agreement is that the nucleus does not contain a black hole as massive as those expected to reside in extinct quasars . |
| 13 | They do n't about that when they 're in the middle of a dramatic crisis and they 've fallen out and perhaps the only thing they know about is how to go about getting a divorce and you see a lawyer and so on . |
| 14 | And perhaps the supreme accolade came from another 300-goal man , his ex-partner and boss Dalglish . |
| 15 | In fact , it was about the time that David and I both auditioned for Hair and we were both turned down which I thought was quite funny because it seemed that just about everyone else in London got the part , but we were very much the kind of solo singers and perhaps the wrong type . |
| 16 | In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct . |
| 17 | Certainly we are all on the move , if only mentally , and perhaps the open road of Stepan 's ‘ gentle and unresentful heart ’ will see him to Spasov before nous les autres . |
| 18 | No. 147 , in its earliest form , belongs to Bach 's Weimar period ; but for a Leipzig performance in 1723 he added recitatives , the famous chorale which concludes the first and seconds parts of the work , and perhaps the bass aria , too . |
| 19 | The CIA ( with some assistance from British intelligence and perhaps the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company itself ) was poised to act against Mussadeq . |