Example sentences of "perhaps like " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps like being on top of a big wave in a canoe or on a surfboard , but to try to describe it is to fail . |
| 2 | Perhaps like Groucho Marx they have other views about exclusive clubs . |
| 3 | A natural follow-up would be for him to make a model van , perhaps like one of his dad 's . |
| 4 | But perhaps like Tony Prosser I might be allowed to conclude by citing the words of Edward Sparer when assessing the future after the failure of the US sequential test-case strategy : |
| 5 | If , on the other hand , we take a functional definition , perhaps like the one that Durkheim offers us , then we might call ideologies such as Marxism or Nationalism religions . |
| 6 | When Pistol appears , ‘ swelling like a turkey-cock ’ , perhaps like the old tragic actors who ‘ strutted and bellowed ’ , Fluellen beats his pate and forces him to eat the leek raw ( V.ii . ) . |
| 7 | The " ladder " is in fact a stairway ( perhaps like that of the ziggurat ) , since angels are going up and down it ( compare Jesus ' words to Nathanael in John 1:51 ) . |
| 8 | As for the second charge , that democracy , perhaps like British liberty in the nineteenth century , was parasitic upon empire , A.H.M. Jones points out that it continued to operate in the fourth century , after the loss of empire , and , indeed , was if anything more expensive then than before , since it was then that payment for attendance at the assembly was added to payment for other public duties . |
| 9 | Its collective identity ( perhaps like that of English studies itself ) was structured into its range and mode of cultural production and enunciation . |
| 10 | Would he reappear perhaps like Edwin Drood himself might have done if Mr Dickens had been spared long enough to conclude it ? |
| 11 | Any tenderness between the two of them would be a sham as far as he was concerned , merely serving to emphasise the absence of love , and perhaps like her he felt that a relationship characterised by so much other feeling ought to be loving as well , that the depth of desire he felt for her should have been merely a facet of love instead of the whole . |
| 12 | Perhaps like Æthelred with Edward the Martyr , he attempted to disarm the opposition by making much of the saint himself . |
| 13 | Saying that imagination is essential for effective RE is perhaps like pubs advertising good food . |
| 14 | If one looks at that erm built area where we are now that looks perhaps like a heron on a perch , and looks immediately east of that , you have Strensall Common , most of which is a restricted area . |
| 15 | And what I was gon na say Alan was , perhaps like Mr you know we had one of the ones sitting here that did go up to two services . |
| 16 | seen like a border in perhaps like a bit of pink and bit of grey on it and it 's like sort of scalloped edging |
| 17 | So what did John look like perhaps like a little Billy Bunter did n't he ? |