Example sentences of "perhaps a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is perhaps a more useful analogy than might at first sight appear . |
| 2 | A dealer will have chosen his critic with special care for an introduction , an ideal candidate often being a sympathetic friend , perhaps a curator . |
| 3 | One source of interest can be a description of where the interview has taken place , perhaps a studio , or maybe the artist 's home . |
| 4 | He was worshipped then for his talent and untimely death — perhaps a little as Eliot was to be worshipped , in the 1940s and '50s , for his saintly abstention from the world . |
| 5 | perhaps a way should be found of ensuring that we experience both the ordinariness and the extraordinariness of the glass , he wrote . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Or perhaps a lens . |
| 8 | Perhaps a perfect circle just above the oculist charts ? |
| 9 | It is indeed remarkable — and perhaps a comment on the tunnel vision of many in academic life — that no previous scholars have looked for the Belgian detective 's literary antecedents in the most obvious of sources , the Medieval Mystery Play . |
| 10 | It is important to realise that if the glider stops just within the boundary , another few feet of height could have meant a serious overshoot and perhaps a damaged aircraft . |
| 11 | This must always be controlled and if injury is caused — other than perhaps a slight reddening — a penalty rather than a score will result . |
| 12 | Perhaps a different type face ? |
| 13 | Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought . |
| 14 | Perhaps a more important advantage of Solvent Free Varnish is that it is touch dry in 20 minutes , and ready for a further coat in two hours . |
| 15 | Colourful is perhaps a polite way to describe this BRCW three-car dmu set P460 with 51317 the leading car . |
| 16 | On Thursday and Friday nights and Sunday lunchtimes you can enjoy Malaysian or Indonesian curries , perhaps a Cambodian-style casserole of sweet potatoes , pumpkins and yams with fresh coriander , or the very popular macrobiotic platter , an assortment of tastes sometimes including arame , one of 10 different sea vegetables they prepare . |
| 17 | Perhaps a quick pull and a dyno clip ? |
| 18 | Perhaps a slow , gentle easing up with as little weight on it as possible ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was perhaps a coincidence that chairman of the IEE meeting was RS Sandell who in the 1970s , with SM Edwardson , developed the BBC 's medium-wave Carfax system that was later aborted . |
| 21 | I suspect that Pound never went further into Aubeterre than this inn , and one needs to have walked in his footsteps from Chalais to Aubeterre to see how he could well have done this , skirting the hill , stopping for perhaps a mid-day meal in the inn , and then pushing on at once for La Tour Blanche . |
| 22 | Lendl has never found it difficult to look sullen , and while blaming his lack of form on the fact that this was his first match indoors since the final of the Nabisco Masters in New York last December , lack of motivation was perhaps a greater factor . |
| 23 | Perhaps a shimmering dry Martini cocktail ( minimum dilution , stirred , not shaken ; and served straight up ) looks even more refreshing , though its effect is that of a silver mallet . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Easton 's section police tour the district in their vehicles awaiting such calls , although this meander does have another purpose in that ‘ You just never know what you could come across : maybe someone in a car that might containammunition , perhaps a stolen car , or perhaps your wife in a car with a best mate ’ ( FN 7/3/87 , p. 3 ) . |
| 26 | It sought to create a business , perhaps a rentier , culture . |
| 27 | The government was plunging on into uncharted waters without a pilot or perhaps a map . |
| 28 | Mankind has a powerful desire to rationalise its actions ; and when people found themselves ten , twenty years after the First World War still paying housing subsidies , this desire to rationalise , and perhaps a natural sense of shame , forbade them to recognise that they were doing so merely out of unwillingness to recognise that 1914 prices and money values had gone for ever . |
| 29 | A massive step forward from Descartes then , but also perhaps a step back to Augustine . |
| 30 | Some economists calculate that only a small part ( perhaps a quarter ) of the appreciation of the exchange rate is attributable to oil but that the government deliberately pushed up the exchange rate ( which appreciated 40 per cent between 1979 and 1980 ) by raising domestic interest rates and thereby weakening industrial competitiveness . |