Example sentences of "perhaps [pron] is [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Joseph had mused : ‘ perhaps there is at work here a process , apparent in many situations but imperfectly understood , by which problems reproduced themselves from generation to generation ’ ( Joseph , 1972 ) .
2 four strategic plan making authorities in Lothian would be ineffective , inefficient and more expensive — and there is a danger that they would have different priorities and perspectives ; be parochial ; together , not meet the land needs of a growing region ; spread specialist staff thinly — perhaps there is post 1986 Met District evidence to support this ;
3 The dead are impersonal , and so perhaps it is of no especial moment that they should be disturbed — or so I might once have argued on Victor 's behalf .
4 Perhaps it is for that reason that Britain will find greater interest in discussing the problems of the former Soviet Union and in establishing the rouble stabilisation fund — even though it will mean us pledging about $600m to help keep the Reds out of the red .
5 Perhaps it is for this reason that , in Braudel 's work at least , it is much more generously defined to include various stable but non-material factors .
6 He 's Well I think she 's pretty silly to come and sit out there in the rain and disturb the I suppose it it perhaps it is under cover I suppose .
7 Perhaps it is to be applied to some kind of child 's toy — a gunpowder-propelled kite ! ’
8 Perhaps it is beyond their intellectual grasp ; or maybe the language it is couched in is too complex .
9 Perhaps it is worth remembering that most steam trains on the mainline need support from modern forms of traction .
10 Perhaps it is worth noting that the old miners make 110 reference to any .
11 Perhaps it is worth reminding ourselves what this Bill does .
12 Perhaps it is from one of mine .
13 Perhaps it is in this context that Evangelicals and Catholics have to look afresh at the troublesome problem of speaking of the sacrament as a ‘ sacrifice ’ .
14 Perhaps it is in this area of human relations we have most to study and most to learn .
15 Perhaps it is in America .
16 Perhaps it is in you .
17 Perhaps it is in the dark girl who looks like your dead wife .
18 Perhaps it is like that in many lives ?
19 But you know perhaps it is like shopping .
20 He has worked hard on it , and perhaps he is at his most content when he has something in his game on which to work .
21 Perhaps he is at his club . ’
22 Perhaps what is at work here is a fear of the other as same not unlike the fascinated fear of the primitive in the notion of ‘ going native ’ : a metamorphosis into the radically other which is no more than an all too easily imagined regression into one 's own ‘ primitive ’ past .
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