Example sentences of "[coord] perhaps " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should ask the landlord for a copy of his evidence that the lease has been excluded from the 1954 Act and/or perhaps consult your solicitor . |
| 2 | Sculpture parks are an enjoyable innovation of the late twentieth century , or perhaps it would be better to say a welcome adaptation of an existing practice . |
| 3 | Most classes last for an hour or perhaps an hour and a half . |
| 4 | In my own case , he wrote , and I can speak only for myself , in my own case and in my own life there have been very few genuine beginnings , only three or perhaps four . |
| 5 | A project is a project , he wrote , and once it is begun it should be carried through to the end , regardless of doubts about meaning , doubts about long runs , or doubts about anything else , unless the body screams for you to stop , of course one can not go on for long against the screaming of the body , but then that merely means one has miscalculated , it merely means one has begun too soon or too late or perhaps that the entire project was a miscalculation . |
| 6 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 7 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 8 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 9 | He works till lunch , then wanders into the kitchen and has long argument with Tony , or perhaps a discussion about the best way to cook trout or whether or not to sack the gardener . |
| 10 | Or perhaps a lens . |
| 11 | Or perhaps just above the arms of the scissors . |
| 12 | Or perhaps ever . |
| 13 | Or perhaps burn . |
| 14 | This even applies to listed buildings : there is still a worryingly widespread general belief that listing only covers the facade , or perhaps just the exterior , whereas it is of course expressly designed to protect the whole building . |
| 15 | Or perhaps you have a good relationship with your financial backers ? |
| 16 | But times have changed and chefs may not be able to get away with overcharging for simple dishes using relatively inexpensive ingredients for much longer … or perhaps they will . |
| 17 | His voice was what is called , I am understanding , Cockney or perhaps Australian . ’ |
| 18 | Though , as I mentioned , I was unable to make contact with Mr Mint , a letter accompanying his essay did make clear the unfortunate fact that its standard — or perhaps the startling originality of its thinking — did not meet with the examiners ' approval . |
| 19 | First , take time to talk to your husband or wife , or perhaps your family doctor , other parents or teachers |
| 20 | The same applies to changing your chairs or perhaps your kitchen fitments . |
| 21 | The choices he made , and the way his achievements oscillated , show a decided lack of conviction , or perhaps of direction , in his thinking . |
| 22 | Or perhaps she was awake ? |
| 23 | Or perhaps there was a heightened distress ? |
| 24 | If that is what is intended , the objector would say , then constructivism is nothing more than a kind of behaviourism ( another attempt to replace the mental by the behavioural ) ; or perhaps we might lump it together with Marxist attempts to ‘ resolve ’ the mind-body problem in terms of ‘ praxis ’ . |
| 25 | Sometimes it is valuable to emphasise the impetus itself , particularly if a bravura pirouette is needed to display a dancer 's particular expertise or perhaps some exhibitionist trait in the character portrayed . |
| 26 | That route I always consider one of the best and most adventurous of my climbing career ; most adventurous because this very serious route ( even by today 's standards — or perhaps especially by today 's standards ) was first attempted on sight . |
| 27 | When you are tackling a larger area — a whole wall , or perhaps even a complete room — you use exactly the same techniques ; the big difference is the sheer scale of the job , which makes the preliminary setting-out by far the most important part . |
| 28 | As to state of mind , Raskolnikov lives with his own continuously but inspects it only intermittently , like the rest of us ; whereas the author surveys the whole truth the whole time , so that we never find him wondering whether perhaps Raskolnikov is thinking this or perhaps he is thinking that : a fact which isolates Crime and Punishment among the mature novels , because elsewhere Dostoevsky loves the unsettled and unsettling narrative posture of ‘ perhaps ’ , particularly with his contracting and dilating collective voice , the ‘ we ’ swept by rumour and speculation which arrives in The House of the Dead and reaches its full flowering in The Possessed . |
| 29 | You might find one in tens or perhaps hundreds of thousands , but even he will turn out a rather feeble specimen . ’ |
| 30 | Marmeladov 's huge notebook gesture towards Christ and the Russian people and suffering constitutes one warning that Dostoevsky was , at one stage , after something too big or too difficult or perhaps simply wrong for Crime and Punishment ; and Sonya 's declaration , again in the notebooks , makes a second : ‘ The Russian people have always suffered like Christ , says Sonya . ’ |