Example sentences of "perhaps [prep] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Rochester himself knew she was not perfect , but he was clearly preparing to marry her , perhaps because she was of good family , perhaps for some other reason . |
| 2 | Suppose there were just two top priorities : the tip of the peg should make contact with the socket ( perhaps for some electrical transmission ) and that the peg should , be aligned with the socket . |
| 3 | Whatever aspect they present — whether written for scientific or commercial purposes , or perhaps for some voluntary organisation — they will follow the lines of this chapter if they are to be of use . |
| 4 | But even those of us who have never been anorexic and live in the affluent Western world must know , perhaps through some isolated experience of our own or others ' , that non-eating leads to fatigue and thence to depression . |
| 5 | Only a few arctic species ( perhaps of recent alpine derivation ; Savile 1972 ) are densely hairy , but many use hairs strategically to good advantage . |
| 6 | There are many churches , pleasant or handsome , which though not perhaps of special architectural interest , are none the less important and well-loved local landmarks . |
| 7 | He often stopped reading or writing to stare into the distance , dreaming perhaps of some ambitious plan . |
| 8 | The performance of computers improves at an astounding rate , perhaps unlike any other machine in the world . |
| 9 | If Gorbachev enjoyed success in any sphere it was perhaps above all foreign policy . |
| 10 | Again , environments that make exercising entertaining can be employed , perhaps including some competitive element such as a game or simply a timed response system . |
| 11 | Most people are able to stay at home , perhaps with some extra support . |
| 12 | This was probably very similar in the heterostracans except that here the tail lobe was scale covered , perhaps with some special scale rows aligned along the length of fin ( see above ) . |
| 13 | All this has coincided perhaps with some inevitable over-optimism . |
| 14 | • time-of-day tariff perhaps with several different charge bands applying to different times of day . |
| 15 | There is nothing clear-cut or standardised about it ; but one may envisage ( and sometimes see quite clearly in real life ) the difference in effect between that of divorce when the child is still at the stage of total reliance on the mother , perhaps with fierce submerged conflict with the male parent , and that taking place when the boy is at the age of modelling himself on the father and establishing male identity through him . |
| 16 | This corresponded to a higher stress than had ever been observed before in tin and perhaps in any other metal . |
| 17 | He noticed too that for the first time since he had arrived at the Cages there was a total silence , as if all the eagles , and all the imprisoned creatures thereabout had instinctively understood that this old eagle 's troubled painful words marked an end to a terrible life ; and perhaps in some strange way the beginning of something none dared hope might come to pass . |
| 18 | I do n't intend to discuss the housing , whether seven hundred acres , sorry seven l land for seven hundred houses is owned by the City of York , that 's not part of our case one way or the other , but we have offered you a distribution of the Greater York provision figure between the districts , because from Barton Willmore 's very extensive experience of participation in local plan work up and down the country , I think we share the view that er City of York have , that Ryedale have , my colleagues to the left and right on this side of the table have , that there does need to be a distribution , otherwise there will be at best confusion as to whether local plans comply with the structure plan , and at worst a game of of pass the parcel and everybody will be conforming , but nobody will actually be possibly meeting the figures , and that is the situation that I do n't think anybody would wish to see as a result of er the outcome of of alteration number three , I mean I do n't know how the County Council would would really be able to say whether they thought a local plan conformed to the structure plan , without knowing what that distribution was , perhaps in some bottom draw manner which is not now the approved way of going about these things , so that I think there does need to be a distribution for the proper planning of York , and before coming on to our to explain our figures a little bit , I should also say , perhaps in in response to remarks Mr Thomas made earlier on about the general character of the York area and the need to protect that , that that course is precisely what the greenbelt is for , and what it does , it is n't necessary to extend that concept across the whole of the vale of York , and therefore to seek to er discount migration outside the greenbelt . |
| 19 | If Patrick was sent back to the hospital he might be temporarily revived , but only briefly and perhaps in some damaged state . |
| 20 | If there was a very large output , perhaps from some other part of the world , and buyers would offer only a lower price , such as £110 per tonne , the EEC either paid their farmers the difference , of £16 , or bought the surplus grain and stored it for future use . |
| 21 | Or was she simply mad , suffering perhaps from some well-known form of psychosis ? |
| 22 | She found a paper bag with two toffees in it ; a book on Burma with a page of Bob 's notes inside ; yellowing , dusty copy paper , crumpled carbons , expired typewriter ribbons ; a briar pipe , grey with age , left over perhaps from some previous occupant ; a dusty brown shoe with a hole in it ; three rusty razor-blades ; an ancient copy of Queen magazine ; a letter from herself … |
| 23 | They would offer them as a high reward investment ( playing down the risk ) with all the liquidity of shares , and with a potential to convert into shares perhaps on one specific day each year . |
| 24 | While Labour seeks to simply snatch the language of one nation from the Tories , the danger here can only grow and it is compounded because it is by no means clear how far a reconstituted and emphatically ‘ un-loony ’ socialism may go in negotiating its own language of toughness on immigration and nationality , even perhaps on humane socialist repatriation . [ … ] |
| 25 | Not unnaturally a young man thus taken on might grow up to be a shrewd and skilful miner , and perhaps at some future date form his own gang or pare . |
| 26 | At other times you have to create it , perhaps by one imaginative stroke , perhaps by hundreds of tiny details : programme decoration , colour scheme , logos , motifs , slogans , guests , music , menus and so on . |
| 27 | Having retrieved the raw data , it needs to be transformed into the required information , perhaps by some preceding analysis work . |
| 28 | All that is needed is plenty of recall , supplemented perhaps by some memory-tickling research . |