Example sentences of "be perhaps a " in BNC.
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| 1 | These substantial , and obviously expensive works are perhaps a little surprising , as cloth making in the Chalford area had been declining . |
| 2 | We are perhaps a somewhat blunt family . |
| 3 | The sound quality varies throughout the recital , so that the somewhat dry acoustic in Schulz-Evler 's ‘ Blue Danube Paraphrase ’ , ( sensationally performed by Chiu ) sounds somewhat mis-matched against the bloom of the Busoni pieces , and the Liszt lieder transcriptions are perhaps a notch too dry . |
| 4 | But the results of the best ‘ neutrino-catching ’ experiment so far carried out are perhaps a little worse than the expectations of the most depressed pessimist : in 1965 a team of scientists recorded a grand total of seven neutrinos in nine months ! |
| 5 | There are perhaps a dozen incredible places that you must see in the Orient . |
| 6 | In all this , there are perhaps a couple of things which look plausible when we compare the philosopher 's child with our mental picture ; Aristotle 's observation that children are immature and Mill 's suggestion that they might need protection . |
| 7 | His portrayal of the choleric and sanguine temperaments is very good indeed and although the two middle movements are perhaps a shade fast , there are still splendidly in character . |
| 8 | There is more to these pieces than just a virtuosic exterior , though I should add that they are perhaps a great deal more amusing to perform than to listen to ‘ en bloc ’ . |
| 9 | I think today that if someone was designing a house one would incorporate all the modern additions which have suddenly become fashionable such as double porches , doubleglazing and er patio windows , I think that these things are perhaps a development from , in the same way as this house is a development from the rooms and the flats we lived in in London so that the modern conceptions of the things I 've mentioned could be incorporated as normal in the house certainly would be cheaper to incorporate them when building the house than adding them on . |
| 10 | Such combinations are perhaps a sub-type of the ‘ academic ’ degree course . |
| 11 | Others which are perhaps a little bit of er a change from what we 've been used to doing , |
| 12 | Agfa has just launched a network of nine bureau round the country and there are perhaps a further dozen individual set-ups currently operating , many as part of an existing desktop publishing bureau and so capable of providing assistance with the overall design of the presentation . |
| 13 | Even the best examples of restoration , and there are perhaps a few , fall far short of compensating for the lost of ‘ real countryside ’ . |
| 14 | For the Roman period , settlement patterns are perhaps a little more precise . |
| 15 | ‘ We are perhaps a little unusual in this region in that we produce only red wine , ’ the Baronne went on . |
| 16 | Shorter maturities are perhaps a little too volatile and respond to day-to-day liquidity conditions too readily to be used as such a guideline . |
| 17 | They had been perhaps a mile and a half off the river mouth when the hurricane hit . |
| 18 | In a few seconds — it had been perhaps a minute in all since I had lost sight of them — I was standing under the tree , on an unrevealing carpet of shrivelled carats . |
| 19 | the bypass that end of town would have been perhaps a little bit clearer . |
| 20 | So we 've been perhaps a little |
| 21 | You 're perhaps a little nervous of change you have n't got really a desire for adventure or anything too challenging . |
| 22 | At the peak of the breeding season there are said to be perhaps a quarter of a million sooty terns nesting on Aride , but now in October there were only a few hundred . |
| 23 | I I think if we get one of them we 'll be doing very well , and to get two would be perhaps a bit naughty . |
| 24 | So it 'd be perhaps a little bit bigger than this big one cos the small one would n't make a lot of difference so perhaps it would be that , that big , or something . |
| 25 | On the corner I think would be perhaps a good idea , do you think ? |
| 26 | Franca was amazed at her sudden power to develop vivid visual images of her mental states , a power which she had never exercised before , and which she thought of , not without satisfaction , as being perhaps a symptom of incipient madness . |
| 27 | Geoff was a sturdy wing-half with a refinement and vision of play which were perhaps a little too sophisticated for the Palace teams of his day , where we were forced to perform in the hurly-burly of the old 3rd Division South , and in the end his career was finished by a nasty knee injury sustained in mid-1952–53 . |
| 28 | Griffith seems to have supposed that the cracks which he thought existed were scattered throughout the interior of the glass and were perhaps a consequence of a failure of the molecules inside the glass to join up completely when the glass hardened . |
| 29 | He allowed her more freedom of choice than many of his clients who were perhaps a better advertisement for his dressmaking skills . |
| 30 | With a final piece of advice that I should climb the hill opposite La Valdieu the next day , I look my leave of the little group , wondering whether they or I were perhaps a little insane . |