Example sentences of "perhaps not the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps not the literal truth ( it is unlikely that Jane Eyre , the unloved orphan , should come into a fortune and gain mastery over Rochester who was once her master or that Pip should be ‘ raised from his station ’ by a mysterious benefactor , who turns out to be Magwitch , the convict he once fed ) , but what Henry James called ‘ the truth of the imagination ’ . |
| 2 | Perhaps not the lime-green hat , then ? |
| 3 | It 's almost a confession — though that is perhaps not the right word — of the depth of feeling . |
| 4 | well certainly one could do that , but it , it , it would preferably if my suspicions if er imposing perhaps not the right word , er define er at the outset we erm the time limits that er are envisaged for the obtaining of magistrate licence or than that I 'm |
| 5 | Perhaps not the best saint the church should have chosen for such a profession . |
| 6 | Students receive an overwhelming mass of information during their first weeks at college or university , so this is perhaps not the best time to distribute library handouts . |
| 7 | Politically it was perhaps not the best time to visit Israel with the deportees refuelling the Intifada unrest in the lands of the West Bank . |
| 8 | There are a number of reasons why His Friend Chris is perhaps not the ideal chairman for the election . |
| 9 | It is perhaps not the ideal place for a beautiful blonde to return late on a Saturday night . ’ |
| 10 | I mean , some and some of the issues are , perhaps not the main issue of the story , but er , are sort of peripheral , if I can use that word , on the , on the edge , like identified weight as a problem , which a lot of middle aged women seem to encounter and get obsessed by it , but actually , the weight thing there , but the central thing is the relationship between the husband and wife , and the weight issue is sort of , I do n't know , tied up with it , but it it was n't the main issue . |
| 11 | It 's one of the principal forces at the core of the universe , perhaps not the main force , but something that can give us immediate enlightenment if we … ’ |
| 12 | During Teotihuaca/n times in the Veracruz wetlands there may have been occasional impounding of swamp water late in the dry season but perhaps not the sustained maintenance of water levels as happened in the chinampas . |