Example sentences of "and perhaps the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argued , historically , that he knew ‘ of no period in which the police have had such a loud and didactic public presence , … [ or ] when they have offered themselves as a distinct interest as one of the great ‘ institutions ’ and perhaps the first in the realm ’ . |
| 2 | But we must hurry north , pausing only to observe that the most dramatic survivor from the early Middle Ages , and perhaps the greatest of all the cities of Europe in the tenth and eleventh centuries , was Cordoba , then in its heyday under the caliphate and its first Indian summer . |
| 3 | Sparrow-sized buntings and redpolls , weighing 30–35 g , are the smallest and perhaps the hardiest of polar birds . |
| 4 | Makassar Oil ( a particularly noxious distillation from coconuts ) was a popular hair cosmetic for Victorian men , and perhaps the greasiest of " greasy kids ' stuff " ever to have caught on . |
| 5 | ‘ George Foreman is the big fight for Lennox right now and the second defence could be against American Tommy Morrison — and perhaps the third against Frank Bruno in 1994 . ’ |
| 6 | And perhaps the best-known of them all ; the apparently harmless street musician who came to a little township called Hamelin , and agreed to rid the town of rats by means of his music … |