Example sentences of "perhaps [pron] [be] just as well " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the one-man show is as close to ‘ actors ’ theatre' as we 'll ever get , perhaps it 's just as well . |
| 2 | Perhaps it 's just as well we lost the battle . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps it 's just as well , then . |
| 4 | But perhaps it 's just as well . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps it 's just as well , ’ murmured David and then in a quite different voice he said : ‘ Mama ! ’ |
| 6 | We 're sorry that his Mum , what 's her name ? , died , and that his Dad did n't come along with his new stepmother , but perhaps it 's just as well . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps it 's just as well Tessa did n't come , Bob , ’ said Bill Waddy . |
| 8 | My family were n't wealthy , could n't have afforded to send me away till it was over , could n't have kept it secret , so perhaps it 's just as well it turned out as it did . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps it 's just as well it 's not me in his line of fire . |
| 10 | Perhaps it is just as well that we are travelling by imagination and not with our physical senses , because many of the towns and cities still carry open sewers in the streets . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , ’ said Ratagan , ‘ for the next day or two it seems hardly likely that I will be wetting my throat at all , so perhaps it is just as well I indulged in a draught or three last night . ’ |
| 12 | Perhaps it is just as well . |
| 13 | Perhaps it was just as well that there did n't seem to be any extra business around tonight . |
| 14 | But perhaps it was just as well that she had this shock , for in her relief at finding the injury comparatively slight , she forbore to say very much about the unexpected guest . |
| 15 | Perhaps it was just as well . |
| 16 | Then , with that stoical and selfless streak in her character , she reflected that perhaps it was just as well he was not . |
| 17 | And perhaps it was just as well because there , on the seat of the rag cart and sitting as patiently as the pony was standing , was Ben . |
| 18 | But in spite of everything perhaps it was just as well that none of the things they could see … none of the plump fish or chickens being toasted on skewers , none of the creamy breads , chapatis , nan , and parathas , none of the richly bubbling curries and glistening mounds of rice , which the skeletons ' scarlet rimmed eyes could see in their lenses and at which they glared for hour after hour that none of these things were available , for in their starved and debilitated condition it was very likely that a heavy curry would have killed them as dead as a cannon ball . |
| 19 | On the whole , he thought to himself , perhaps it was just as well . |
| 20 | Robbie was terribly tempted to ask how he would describe the glamorous-looking Petula , so perhaps it was just as well that at that moment they came in sight of the first lock . |
| 21 | But perhaps it was just as well , and at least the physical toll the climb was taking had , temporarily at least , driven other sensations from her body . |
| 22 | Perhaps it was just as well Rosemary was still not back . |