Example sentences of "and perhaps the only " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Modigliani worked on the painting , an unusually long time for him and perhaps the only time when he agreed to ‘ continue ’ a painting . |
| 3 | He held that ‘ the obvious and perhaps the only satisfactory solution ’ was a multilateral post-primary school attended by all children alike . |
| 4 | ‘ Many sub-units of companies simply can not be measured by revenue , contributions to profits , or costs related to output units … for a department of this kind , the best and perhaps the only measure of performance is achievement of predetermined programmes within budgets . ’ |
| 5 | I polished the latches a bit with my shirtsleeve , then I put the briefcase back exactly as I 'd found it and took my leaf-trembling self along to the dining car , already regretting , before I got there , that I had n't stayed until the Canadian left , knowing that I 'd wasted some of the best and perhaps the only chance I would get of seeing what Filmer had brought with him on the train . |
| 6 | It is the only continuous book he ever wrote after 1945 — the rest is all essays and articles — and perhaps the only entire book by any British-born critic of the age to work moral and literary concerns into a single exercise of radical intellect , as indifferent to tact as to fashion and concerned only with truth itself . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , many astrophysicists remain unconvinced by the current evidence , and perhaps the only point of general agreement is that the nucleus does not contain a black hole as massive as those expected to reside in extinct quasars . |
| 8 | They do n't about that when they 're in the middle of a dramatic crisis and they 've fallen out and perhaps the only thing they know about is how to go about getting a divorce and you see a lawyer and so on . |
| 9 | And perhaps the only surprising thing about that result is that , is that seven people have said no ! |
| 10 | He has n't seen her before , and perhaps the only woman he 's seen me with is his mother . |
| 11 | He therefore considered them of a tradition quite different from that form of conservatism — so admirably defined by Russell Kirk in his study Eliot and his Age ( 1971 , 1984 ) — which , as Eliot said to me more than once , was the best and perhaps the only defence against the extremes of Communism and Fascism . |
| 12 | Methods of conducting evaluation such as classroom observation and surveys of opinion within school were entirely absent from the appraisal and perhaps the only wide-scale method used was that of departmental discussion . |
| 13 | Since published sources for instrument makers are extremely scarce the French archives provide the best ( and perhaps the only ) opportunity for new research on the Hotteterres . |
| 14 | A reasonable , and perhaps the only plausible , response would be to say that to understand an utterance is to decode or calculate all that might reasonably have been meant by the speaker of the utterance ( cf. |