Example sentences of "and perhaps " in BNC.
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| 31 | Then the stance would only be ten feet away and perhaps there would be a hook placement ? |
| 32 | And to keep the children amused , a Lego competition will be held in the creche , so that junior selfbuilders can also build their own houses , and perhaps win some Lego , too . |
| 33 | Although glass surrounds us , if a glass window shatters it may cause horrific and perhaps even lethal injuries . |
| 34 | If he became excitable , I advised they gently apply the brake on the lead and calm Moby down with quiet words and perhaps a short ‘ sit ’ , before leading him off toward the dog or person again , allowing Moby to become used to their presence . |
| 35 | Also , and perhaps to a greater extent , a man is what he has smelt : later in the novel Raskolnikov gives the police-station smell as the reason for the suspicious circumstance of his fainting , which is neither the whole truth nor a straight lie but the blending of the guilty man with the Poison of the city . |
| 36 | In his time he has tried a lot of things : card-sharping , prison , wife-thrashing and perhaps wife-murder , child-violation , even good works . |
| 37 | He suggest that behind Raskolnikov 's sister 's loathing of him there lurks attraction , and he states flatly that she and his own wife were once in love with each other ; and perhaps he is right . |
| 38 | It 's only afterwards , in the Epilogue , that we learn with surprise and perhaps some vexation that repentance and acceptance of suffering come to him not then but much later , in prison ; his confession was not the decisive moral feat we took it for . |
| 39 | The child is sexually responsive and perhaps dominant . |
| 40 | Certainly we are all on the move , if only mentally , and perhaps the open road of Stepan 's ‘ gentle and unresentful heart ’ will see him to Spasov before nous les autres . |
| 41 | Derrida 's admirers , and perhaps some disinterested observers , would reject such charges as based on misunderstandings of his work . |
| 42 | My proposal will , I know , appear as selling the pass , to traditionalist teachers of English Literature , and perhaps upset them , which I am sorry for . |
| 43 | Anyone who opens before him Carte Michelin No. 75 , can see the places named , related just as Pound says : Chalais , on the main line from paris to Bordeaux ; Aubeterre in the valley of the Dronne , twelve kilometres to the east ; then thirty kilometres north-eastward a little place called La Tour Blanche ; and perhaps fifteen kilometres further , just on the edge of the map , Vieux-Mareuil . |
| 44 | And perhaps most people qualified to judge would concede that there comes a time early in any study of Joyce where the student has to beat the Dublin streets on foot . |
| 45 | Rhetoric was a thing he would gladly have murdered ; and he had already carried out his theory of honest thinking at the expense of considerable financial and perhaps emotional sacrifices . |
| 46 | But it should be clear to us now that the English hide which she thought so ‘ thickly padded ’ was in fact morbidly sensitive — certainly as long ago as Beerbohm 's spitefulness in the 1930s , and perhaps as long ago as Robert Nichols 's inexusable review of ‘ Homage to Sextus Propertius ’ in 1920 . |
| 47 | However , at least 10 of my cultural heroes would appear on almost all lists , and perhaps 30 would appear on most . |
| 48 | Arthur Cox 's admiration for John Fashanu is well known , and perhaps it is time for the Maxwell millions to be used to purchase just such a battering Ram . |
| 49 | It estimates that 42,000 people will leave this year , 55,000 next year , and perhaps up to 60,000 the year after . |
| 50 | Britain has been muttering that if it perceives a ‘ consensus for democracy ’ in Hong Kong , it will start ‘ talking tough ’ to Peking at a diplomatic level , and perhaps even adopt the Legislative Council proposals for 1995 in the teeth of Chinese opposition and without regard to ‘ convergence ’ with the Basic Law . |
| 51 | He is Joseph Zappala , a Florida property developer , who has never been to Spain and perhaps , more to the point , speaks no Spanish . |
| 52 | There could be exhibitions of the best tapestries and textiles , the finest portraiture , the most outstanding silver ; or the best of a certain period drawn together from National Trust houses ; and perhaps linked displays on craftmanship , techniques , restoration and conservation . |
| 53 | It is possible that Mr Brooke , or a successor , may begin to think in terms of reducing the UDR 's role and size , and perhaps even phasing it out . |
| 54 | What is wholly unacceptable is the denial of justice to the great majority of citizens who are not poor enough to qualify for legal aid but not rich enough to risk the costs of litigating an important public law issue in the High Court , the Court of Appeal , and perhaps the House of Lords . |
| 55 | Here the degree of complicity is , and perhaps has to be , far higher than the viewer ever suspects . |
| 56 | What a curious and deep shaft into English society is opened by the reflection that when reputations and perhaps a million pounds in costs alone are at stake , we revert to the patterns of upper-class education . |
| 57 | Meanwhile , declining confidence in the pound , and perhaps in the ‘ Thatcher Revolution , ’ is severely constraining ministers at a time when — as a formidable faction in the Cabinet has recognised — the Government needs to give a higher priority to the quality of life if it is not to be swept aside in the 1990s . |
| 58 | But no one knows , and perhaps there is nothing to know . |
| 59 | A second line of clothing is less dreary and perhaps slightly more attuned to what people might actually want to wear . |
| 60 | But Graham Steward , director of Hambros treasury and capital markets division , said that the principle could be extended to currencies and small companies , and perhaps even to individuals , for example to hedge mortgages . |