Example sentences of "it was perhaps [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was perhaps a coward 's answer , and he was honest enough to admit it . |
| 2 | It the impetus came I think largely from feminism and it was perhaps a way of of y'know kind of erm because there was a great deal of interest , particularly in the seventies , in cataloguing and understanding the various ways in which women were oppressed and this is one of the things came to light and often through things like consciousness raising groups . |
| 3 | Although as I said , it was perhaps a mistake , erm , both classes produced excellent papers , that th it was a first class paper , in the other class and so was yours . |
| 4 | It was perhaps a bit thicker than she would have liked , but the weight was about right . |
| 5 | It was perhaps a coincidence that chairman of the IEE meeting was RS Sandell who in the 1970s , with SM Edwardson , developed the BBC 's medium-wave Carfax system that was later aborted . |
| 6 | It was perhaps a strategy for dissuading him from coming round so often . |
| 7 | And , the way things had been going for Gerhard Berger , it was perhaps no surprise that it should be his McLaren which would suffer that fate . |
| 8 | It was perhaps no coincidence that French was adopted by English departments of state during the Anglo-French rapprochement of that time . |
| 9 | It was perhaps no wonder that his ‘ quiet , nice ’ wife had hair that had gone white by the time she was thirty . |
| 10 | It was perhaps no wonder that he reacted against the spartan , puritanical environment of Potsdam . |
| 11 | The enormity of ‘ one roof ’ had taken her by surprise , and it was perhaps the way that had stiffened her which made her now feel so free , so beyond obligation . |
| 12 | She briefly wondered if it was perhaps the work of Earth Reptiles , but swiftly dismissed the idea , since not only did the style not match theirs , but there was no sign of their hibernation hives . |
| 13 | It was perhaps the influence of the three ladies that brought about a re-casting of five-part writing : two sopranos , alto , tenor , and bass supplanting soprano , alto , two tenors , and bass . |
| 14 | The 1959 decree did not fundamentally change the existing situation — argue Missika and Woltons — but it was perhaps the text that , more than any other , showed that ‘ public service broadcasting ’ would not develop on lines akin to Britain 's BBC . |
| 15 | It was perhaps the miracle of the decade that BR was allowed to invest so heavily in a new generation of multiple units . |
| 16 | It was perhaps the argument that this imposition of middle-class morality was holding back the British cinema which led to the matter becoming an issue of public concern . |
| 17 | Earlier he had heard that a young clerk from the Post Office had shot himself while lying in bed … he had left a young widow , to whom he had been married in Calcutta during the previous cold season ; this act of despair had moved him more than any other of the many deaths he had witnessed since the beginning of the siege ; it was perhaps the fact that the young man had been lying in bed when he had shot himself that the Collector found so sad . |
| 18 | When I saw your hair — ’ touching it lovingly , fingering the fiery strands ‘ — it was perhaps the trigger that sprang the flame . |
| 19 | It was perhaps an hour later that the island 's police chief left them with a clicking heels bow . |
| 20 | In the same year , when a judge confronted with a boy burglar at the London Sessions was to be found pontificating against the cinema as ‘ a grave danger to the community ’ which was ‘ responsible for the downfall of many young people ’ , the prosecutor jokingly remarked that ‘ it was perhaps an example of retributive justice that one of the houses broken into belonged to a cinematograph proprietor ’ . |