Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] perhaps a " in BNC.
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| 31 | However , a few clear intervals may develop , allowing some patchy mist and perhaps a touch of ground frost during the early hours . |
| 32 | The front of the shop was open to the street , but large blocks of stone set at intervals across the threshold carried rebates for timber uprights , presumably to support the gable or perhaps an upper storey . |
| 33 | The room looked to be what they had thought ; a store or perhaps a fuelhouse which might be left unattended for most of the time . |
| 34 | Many families are used to having a cat , a dog or perhaps a budgie as a family pet but there are moves to encourage us to think of chickens as an alternative . |
| 35 | Because I , I 've received a letter erm from a parishioner , if I can find it , er which I have photocopied for everyone , which I think was a direct response to the fact that there was something in the magazine and perhaps a direct response to other meetings and to a general feeling as well . |
| 36 | According to the author of the Annals of Xanten ( he had been Louis the Pious 's court librarian and perhaps a protégé of the emperor 's wife in the 830s ) , " The Empress Judith , Charles 's mother , died at Tours , having had all her wealth taken from her by her son " . |
| 37 | In association with his technically minded relative , Thomas ( the exact relationship is not known ) , he may have had an iron furnace and hammer-pond at Hamsell Farm , and possibly a smelter and perhaps a coining press in Isleworth at the end of the century . |
| 38 | However , as the relaxed exclusionary rule is formulated , this is , with respect , both an over-simplification and perhaps an over-optimistic analysis . |
| 39 | Recruits will normally have an informal interview with the manager and perhaps a senior worker in the bureau to which they have applied . |
| 40 | France had never at heart been enthusiastic about the EDC , regarding it at a minimum as perhaps a lesser evil : fundamentally , it did not want West German rearmament . |
| 41 | They may have contained either small units of the regular army or perhaps a locally raised militia . |
| 42 | Junior accountants at Price Waterhouse , one of the big six firms , have been told that now is the time to take their once-in-a-lifetime world tour or perhaps a summer stint as a yacht deckhand and that applications for extended unpaid leave ‘ will be looked on favourably ’ . |
| 43 | The government was plunging on into uncharted waters without a pilot or perhaps a map . |
| 44 | That it 's actually trying to enforce a pattern of family life that perhaps a lot of people do n't want ? |
| 45 | He was actually turned down five times by NME and this had a lasting effect : frustration and perhaps a desire to avenge himself in its columns in later years . |
| 46 | A model or perhaps a myth , of complete integration persists in many local authority homes in Scotland . |
| 47 | He was very friendly with erm who was in charge of the Extra Mural Board and erm then possibly because of this connection erm we were asked by the erm Ministry of Defence to provide lectures and courses for erm units of H M Forces stationed in the area and erm so a panel of lecturers was erm formed and erm they used to go out , the , the units used to have their own Education Officers , usually a sergeant or perhaps a second lieutenant and erm they used to come into the office and say that they 'd like somebody to go out to their Searchlight Unit or A A Unit stationed somewhere out in the sticks and er lecture on this that or the other and erm we were supposed to try and fix them up and erm the panel erm , it had quite a number of erm people on it that erm , I ca n't remember who they all were , I know that erm you 'd hardly believe this but there was a chap named Mr and another chap named Mr |
| 48 | If you want to stop at seventy three point six million erm pounds we 're quite happy to erm and I suggest Chairman if if we do n't get the the main er growth savings through at the next few minutes of voting that perhaps a rather longer lunch erm maybe there would be some . |
| 49 | ( 170 MN/m 2 ) , much the same as ordinary glass and perhaps a little less than commercial steel . |
| 50 | It is important to realise that if the glider stops just within the boundary , another few feet of height could have meant a serious overshoot and perhaps a damaged aircraft . |
| 51 | The reasons are numerous — the recession , people 's awareness of drink/driving and perhaps a perception that in some way white spirits are healthier ! |
| 52 | To the English critic ‘ HD ’ the word ‘ cinema ’ conjured up memories of ‘ crowds and crowds and saccharine music and longdrawn out embraces and the artificially enhanced thuds-off of galloping bronchoes ’ and then again ‘ boredom , tedium , suffocation , pink lemonade , saw-dust even , old reactions connected with cheap circuses , crowds and crowds and illiteracy and more crowds and breathless suffocation and ( in America ) peanut shells and grit and perhaps a sudden collapse of jerry-built scaffoldings ’ . |
| 53 | The flowers offer no reward and deceive the insects by appearing to offer food and perhaps a brood place , so that the plant is doubly parasitic on the liane and on the bluebottle . |
| 54 | These characters coupled with the relatively large tentacle pores suggest that this species is not an Ophiacantha but perhaps a young stage of a species of the Ophotominae . |
| 55 | Eisenman also traced the Sadducees back to the same source , indicating that the term ‘ Sadducee ’ is in fact a variant or perhaps a corruption , of ‘ Zadok ’ or ‘ Zaddikim ’ . |
| 56 | In general , the photograph will be protected by copyright which will be owned by the publisher or perhaps a freelance photographer . |
| 57 | Therefore , the one is a destination which you 'll probably find you 'd prefer to go to for a long weekend or perhaps a , part of your annual holiday etcetera , our parks are places you go to for a day out and I think therefore there is a very er , strong difference between the sort of visit and because I feel that EuroDisney which will undoubtedly will be good , it 's a proven formula er , it 's run well er , it appeals to a lot of people and therefore it will be I think er , successful , exactly how successful I obviously ca n't say , but it will be successful , it will certainly attract British visitors , but they 'll come back , looking er , with certain higher expectation , a value for money , quality etcetera , etcetera . |
| 58 | It does focus on the person in a way that perhaps a crime series does n't . |
| 59 | But then this leads to the idea that perhaps a number of women do not enjoy being part of a couple and that a single woman in their midst acts like a demented lighthouse : enticing hapless travellers , by its safe and steady beam , on to the rocks below . |
| 60 | Er and I think we would all er acknowledge er the the precise difficulties of that wording and perhaps a , an amendment may need to be considered on the second line following the list of districts . |