Example sentences of "and perhaps the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 2 | He argued , historically , that he knew ‘ of no period in which the police have had such a loud and didactic public presence , … [ or ] when they have offered themselves as a distinct interest as one of the great ‘ institutions ’ and perhaps the first in the realm ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ Seriousness ’ , a key word in his vocabulary , and perhaps the most important trait of his character , is ever ready to break down into self-mockery , ever willing to enjoy the jeux d'esprit with which his work and art are replete . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The issue represents the ultimate test — and perhaps the convergence — of two opposing moral theories . |
| 7 | Anywhere outside a Communist state — and perhaps the time looks like coming when even that qualification will be superfluous — this is done by seeking to secure the largest possible return on capital . |
| 8 | You may ask me then : ‘ Why do n't we do just that ? why has there been this passionate search for some other method of preventing the fall in the value of money or controlling the fall in the value of money , if a cause and perhaps the major cause is undisputed , assessable and obvious ? ’ |
| 9 | His or her only links are the A&R staff and perhaps the marketing people . |
| 10 | These are Genet 's reconstructions , and perhaps the gulf , the void , are his as well as the soldiers ' . |
| 11 | He restricts himself to an account of the ground forces , so there is no coverage of the role played by the South African air force , for instance , and perhaps the distinction drawn by Britain at the outset of the war between the old Dominions and the members of the new Commonwealth which it regarded as a security risk could have been more strongly emphasized . |
| 12 | True , the first and perhaps the second blackmail payments had come in before he was obliged to pay for his teeth at the beginning of June , but he had blithely paid two hundred and fifty for them in cash when the demand came . |
| 13 | She and the film show us in corruscating detail the real difficulties of the character 's position , and asks us not for approval but for understanding and perhaps the grace of mercy . |
| 14 | Although the building is of more or less one period , it is still nonetheless a higgledy-piggledy place to find one 's way about in , as though the builders had not planned it as a whole but acted on whims and perhaps the need to accommodate an expanding family . |
| 15 | In fact , it was about the time that David and I both auditioned for Hair and we were both turned down which I thought was quite funny because it seemed that just about everyone else in London got the part , but we were very much the kind of solo singers and perhaps the wrong type . |
| 16 | New observatories to spot neutrinos arriving from space are being built in Italian mountains , Canadian mines and perhaps the depths of the Pacific . |
| 17 | In backing a Petrakov plan , Mr Gorbachev risks popular unrest as well as revolt within the Communist party ( and perhaps the resignation of his prime minister , Mr Nikolai Ryzhkov , if economic policy is rammed through by decree rather than through his government ) . |
| 18 | The taxes ( and perhaps the fees of guides which some accounts did not distinguish from taxes ) were collective income of all Zuwaya , effectively of Jlulat , Mannaia and Awlad Amira . |
| 19 | But he has failed in his great ambition , and perhaps the task was too much for a man who has had to spend time inventing a new identity for himself . |
| 20 | In many ways it was a sad ending for a tutor who had given some twenty years to the cause of workers ' education in the county and perhaps the most sincere and apposite appreciation of her many qualities came most appropriately from a member of the Kettering branch : |
| 21 | There , contrary to expectation , primary schools are of the two to three teacher type even in the heavily populated Punjab province , partly because of the village concept of life and partly because the community structure makes this the best and perhaps the only acceptable form of organisation . |
| 22 | And perhaps the best place is the dining room . |
| 23 | If they are successful , they will reduce some of the practical difficulties created by late abortions , and perhaps the qualms of the mother about terminating the child . |
| 24 | Modigliani worked on the painting , an unusually long time for him and perhaps the only time when he agreed to ‘ continue ’ a painting . |
| 25 | The first , and perhaps the simplest , was that the formation of within-stimulus associations might interfere with the acquisition of subsequent associations involving these stimulus elements ( and , I must now add , might interfere with the ability of subsequently formed associations to influence behaviour ) . |
| 26 | The omission of the second ( the social/economic system ) leads to a purely technocratic and physical study of the processes of soil erosion and perhaps the immediate land-uses leading to it , without any analysis of other political economic relationships at the local , regional and international scales which determine the actions of the land-user in the affected area . |
| 27 | The vivid emotions of childhood are vitally important to our growth as adults , and perhaps the stages of change in society can also be likened to the stages of childhood . |
| 28 | And perhaps the greatest value of the video has been to reduce the time the average family spends watching the effluvia of television served up on the two main British television channels whose only role in the future looks more and more likely to be news and sports . |
| 29 | Rob Wilson 's reputation as a rod builder is unequalled in Scotland and perhaps the greatest test of his skill came in 1958 . |
| 30 | He held that ‘ the obvious and perhaps the only satisfactory solution ’ was a multilateral post-primary school attended by all children alike . |