Example sentences of "perhaps it be this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Or perhaps it 's this city , ’ he says . |
| 2 | Perhaps it is this sense of impotence — and the sense that English 's image of ‘ effeminacy ’ or ‘ femininity ’ makes it appear unimportant-that has led postwar literary theoretical movements to espouse ideals of ‘ objectivity ’ and ‘ scientificity ’ . |
| 3 | Perhaps it is this point of political reassessment ; perhaps it is because I am mid-way through my life — the time when the past stretches widespread enough to contemplate , and the future is no longer infinite — which makes me want to catch memories . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps it was this bloke Kennedy she was supposed to be meeting . |
| 5 | Perhaps it was this climate of hysteria and sanctified greed that broke the moral fibre of a mild-mannered English instructor at Columbia University called Charles Van Doren . |
| 6 | On 26 June he records shooting a wattle-cheeked honeyeater ‘ on the ranges near the Upper Torrens ’ ; he ‘ killed a Bittern on the 1st July near the Murray , above Gleeson 's Station ’ ; collected red throats ‘ about forty miles north of Lake Alexandrina ’ ; spotted a white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus ‘ near the bend of the river Murray ’ ( perhaps it was this remark that led some to guess that it was the great west bend to which Gould referred ) ; and shot a pink robin in ‘ a deep ravine under Mount Lofty ’ ( this was the last time an example of this species , Petroica rodinogaster was seen in South Australia , although one or two reliable observers said they had seen specimens in the area many years previously ) . |
| 7 | Perhaps it was this atmosphere , coupled with Max Jacob 's fierce Catholicism , that led Modigliani to seek out his roots . |