Example sentences of "[be] perhaps [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But also at every age , we can do things which are perhaps just a little beyond our reach . |
| 2 | Such opinions have commendable moral tone but they are perhaps not a recipe for electoral success . |
| 3 | That 's perhaps not a luxury that you can enjoy immediately after London — although the thought of a couple of thousand masseuses standing by to greet the hordes as they cross Westminster Bridge is a novel one ! |
| 4 | That 's it M A L E so it 's perhaps not a bad idea that we spell it differently cos you can tell which one you 're talking about then . |
| 5 | So I 'm very , it 's not a picture which unless you are sort of mad keen on horses that i it 's perhaps not a picture which erm will hold your interest for too long . |
| 6 | mind you it 's perhaps not a good idea to go and have a look not with this |
| 7 | The only fault — if you could call it a fault on a brand-new guitar — is that it 's perhaps still a bit closed-in and inhibited . |
| 8 | Fitch 's arrival — and that of next-door neighbours DEGW — is perhaps just a harbinger of what 's to come . |
| 9 | If patients wish to give up coffee , it is perhaps not a bad thing . |
| 10 | It is perhaps not a surprising liaison , considering that the British drug industry is one of the superstar contributors to our balance of payment figures . |
| 11 | On the contrary they assist the plaintiff to the extent that his case accords with legislative policy and the Act at least recognises the possibility that he has a valid claim at common law — the fact that the Law Commission , whose Report on Injuries to Unborn Children ( 1974 ) ( Cmnd. 5709 ) led to the Act of 1976 , considered this a probability is perhaps not a matter which the plaintiff can properly pray in aid . |
| 12 | The Family illness is perhaps not a cross-addiction so much as an addictive relationship and a mirror-image of the various primary illnesses . |
| 13 | I can make what is perhaps not a usual boast in Scotland : I can claim that some of my best friends are Conservatives . |
| 14 | Cultural history and theory , it has to be said , have very extensive agenda , and art criticism is perhaps only a sub-paragraph under a secondary heading . |
| 15 | Of course , he is perhaps more a sociologist and psychologist than a biologist , but still … ’ |
| 16 | To a large extent this is perhaps inevitably a criticism of the chairman from September 1983 , Robert Reid . |
| 17 | ‘ My old friend , my youth , ’ he wrote to her afterwards , ‘ during the long years I have lived without knowing your whereabouts , there was perhaps not a single day when I did not think of you . ’ |
| 18 | Marseilles was perhaps not a particularly easy city for a bishop to manage . |
| 19 | The local hardware shop proprietor was perhaps not a little alarmed when asked to supply 15 broomsticks before October 31st ! |
| 20 | But if it was perhaps even a little one your own age if you did n't know them very well it would be you . |
| 21 | For Saussure this was perhaps mainly a methodological convenience , a way of concentrating on the aspects of language that interested him . |
| 22 | It was perhaps less a prayer than a wish , in its final form ; but by the time the Queen went to bed that evening , it looked almost as if she had been heard . |