Example sentences of "perhaps [pron] [be] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps I 'm kind of emotionally retarded … but basically I 've just written about things how I 've felt about them , myself , emotionally . |
| 2 | Or perhaps there are schemes for the disabled to rent computers at lower rates ? |
| 3 | Our modern parental investment individualistic view would n't allow you to make that error , instead you 'd say you know you 've got ta look at the costs and benefits of the mother too and perhaps there are benefits to mothers in actively testing as it were their offspring , erm rather than just passively er accepting that they 're gon na have to be mothers and gon na have to get on with it and again you see , er I would er and this may have been the big mistake I made last year , er but again I stand by my er view on this and it 's a perfectly defensible one , erm again I think those who say that abortion is unnatural and kind of erm offends against er you know nature , are wrong . |
| 4 | ‘ I mean , perhaps there are modes of reflection which have become luxuries , ideas we dare not frame , we dare not permit ourselves — ’ |
| 5 | According to this analysis , [ 25 ] is equivalent in import to [ 27 ] : Perhaps there are contexts in which a speaker of [ 25 ] would intend nothing more than this . |
| 6 | Perhaps there are clues in the archetype of the Great Mother ; we must bear in mind , though , that we can not go back to some primitive image of the priestess , but must give it life and meaning in today 's terms . |
| 7 | Perhaps there are links of which you are unaware . ’ |
| 8 | Perhaps there 's hope for me yet , he thought as he unrolled the fillet on the cutting board . |
| 9 | I wondered which had come first , the chill and disenchantment of her worldly sophistication , or the lack of warmth in her son : and perhaps there was ice in both of them , and the one had reinforced the other . |
| 10 | But maybe cos there was no opportunity , they did n't see there to be I mean like they did n't know any better but as soon as , I mean things are rapidly changing they 're given the opportunity to erm I mean through the struggles to actually take charge of the conditions and to gain so some material and perhaps there was beginnings of them seeing that well perhaps we ought to look more to this sub-culture and to erm |
| 11 | Perhaps there was trouble with the gaming table ? |
| 12 | Perhaps they are pests to a lot of people , but we did n't see too many flies around our estate during the hot summer , so they had their uses . |
| 13 | Perhaps they are nighthawks from space ! |
| 14 | Maggie had never bothered to resist their reasoning , and she folded her clothes partly from the natural instinct of obedience , and partly because she had never been entirely sure that these external appendages did indeed belong to her , Maggie Petherington , or if perhaps they were loans from the mysterious outer world ; loans that would doubtless be called in some day . |
| 15 | Perhaps it 's part of the drink/driving campaign reaching people who ride the sky in a sleigh drawn by reindeer . |
| 16 | There has been no positive response to our representations so perhaps it 's time to be more firm |
| 17 | Not everyone has the same tastes , remember — some people do n't like reading long text messages like those in Nythyhel , but perhaps it 's time for another game with a strong storyline . |
| 18 | Perhaps it 's time for the electorate to call a halt and put the MPs on unemployment benefit to see how they would manage . |
| 19 | Perhaps it 's time for England to try the ploy of getting a recently retired International Player ( Hoddle , Wilkins , Robson — hope not , Keegan or Francis ) . |
| 20 | Perhaps it 's sort of on there yeah . |
| 21 | Or perhaps it 's sort of some dressed up character . |
| 22 | Arthur Cox 's admiration for John Fashanu is well known , and perhaps it is time for the Maxwell millions to be used to purchase just such a battering Ram . |
| 23 | Perhaps it is time for a change , but the only change available is Labour , with or without Liberal appendages . |
| 24 | Perhaps it is time for the IB to appoint its own disciplinary committee to act where individual unions refuse to do so . |
| 25 | Perhaps it is time for a reminder of our purpose . |
| 26 | " Perhaps it is time for a little truth . |
| 27 | Perhaps it is time for the powers that be to look again at the slalom rules that allow dipping and sideways presentations . |
| 28 | Perhaps it is time for the society to change its name . |
| 29 | Perhaps it was institutions like the dowry system which made the East African Asian Patels status conscious , or maybe they used the dowry with such enthusiasm because they had become so preoccupied with status as a result of their role in East Africa . |
| 30 | Or perhaps it was kind of Alan . |