Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] perhaps a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most classes last for an hour or perhaps an hour and a half . |
| 2 | ‘ How about a bit of jugged hare or perhaps a nice plump breast of chicken , ’ she said , knowing full well that such delicacies were beyond the reach of the poor worker . |
| 3 | In determining whether the offer of alternative work is suitable , the tribunal takes into account factors such as status , skills required , pay , hours of work and whether it involves additional travelling time and/or expense or perhaps a need to move house . |
| 4 | She must send Mrs Rundle a card and perhaps a present but she had no money . |
| 5 | Higher birth-rates among ethnic-minority groups , urban house-building projects , the running down of the new-towns programme and perhaps an improvement in environmental conditions in the cities may all have contributed to this . |
| 6 | Many of the farmer 's wives came in for a mug of tea and perhaps a piece of cake before they set off on the long drive for home . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's an exciting challenge , and I am confident , given time , thorough research and perhaps a little bit of luck , we will find them . ’ |
| 8 | Alison waved from the window of the departing taxi and Celia waved back , a sudden feeling of depression taking hold of her to such an extent that she abandoned her idea of looking for a pram and set off , rather aimlessly , in the direction of Leicester Square in the faint hope that perhaps a cinema might take her mind off things . |
| 9 | The other safe options will be cold : chefs salad or perhaps a salad niçoise . |
| 10 | DAY 4 : Time for last minute shopping or perhaps a visit to the Rijksmuseum to see the Night Watch by Rembrandt or the Van Gogh Museum to see a vast array of the master 's work . |
| 11 | You may have vaginal thrush or perhaps an ‘ anaerobic ’ vaginitis , a very common infection which can be caused by various microbes , not necessarily sexually transmitted . |
| 12 | In fact , helping out with the dreary road and fitness work could result in you being offered a day 's hunting or perhaps a ride around a hunter trial or whatever . |
| 13 | Despite the tears , Athelstan still wondered if her adultery made her an assassin or perhaps an accomplice to murder . |
| 14 | It may be necessary to get reports from an orthopaedic surgeon , a neurologist and perhaps a plastic surgeon . |
| 15 | The inlays are mother-of-pearl and perhaps a trifle unusual in how they diminish in size up the neck … |
| 16 | The social worker within a local authority is never professionally involved with a family simply because it is a family but only when family considerations impinge upon the welfare and interests of some member of a client group — usually a child but perhaps an elderly or disabled adult . |
| 17 | Farmhouse style kitchens are typified by stripped pine , bare brick and perhaps a dresser . |
| 18 | The certainty that this particular music was being played directly at her and for her , that the fair man had seen her violin case and perhaps a look in her eyes of wistfulness , the fair man alone , for the guitarist seemed only there for support and back-up , decided her . |
| 19 | For most people , a love of animals tends to extend to several pets , the odd donation and perhaps a rally . |
| 20 | In your own minds , now , I want you to think of a famous building or a famous site or perhaps a famous street or avenue yes a a statue would be fine , erm or something that 's famous , like an animal perhaps , or a park erm or a zoo , although that might be a bit difficult . |
| 21 | Later excavation under the direction of Dr. Euan MacKie found that the work of building the circle was never completed and owing to a miscalculation or perhaps an unfavourable omen , was abandoned . |
| 22 | The identification of fire arms is not difficult in crash wreckage but it is less easy to be certain that an explosion on board an aircraft in flight resulted from a bomb or perhaps a disintegrating turbine disc or an explosive decompression of the cabin . |
| 23 | Being a mother has a certain status after all , it makes you a grown-up person , something you ca n't feel , if , like a girl I met in Barnsley , you leave school , which you hated anyway , and did badly at , become unemployed , and there 's no job except perhaps a government scheme . |
| 24 | Material written in the hope or the expectation that it will be published is going to be different from material that is never expected to be read by anyone other than the author and perhaps a close friend . |
| 25 | Reading my letter fifty-one years later , I am struck by its vigour , but I deplore a certain over-writing and perhaps a ‘ one-must-not attack Mr Eliot ’ tone . |
| 26 | Both speedway and grasstrack riders are competing … five hundred cc in the solo competition … but it 's a 1000 cc for the sidecar event , where daring , courage and perhaps a little madness wins races … |
| 27 | It has been suggested that the carved metope was in fact a western idea only later imitated in Greece proper , and that the metopes from the foundations of the Sicyonian Treasury were not from a Sicyonian building but perhaps a Syracusan . |
| 28 | And , it 's not a text but perhaps a verse that we could use as a , as a springboard is verse twenty seven , and it says at this point his disciples came and they marvelled that he had been speaking with a woman ! |
| 29 | Its function is to randomly send the ball ( provided it has been correctly ‘ hit ’ by the resident batsman ) to some part of the field where it may ( or may not ) score runs or , unhappily , be caught by a fielder or perhaps a loud ‘ Howzat ? ’ may be asked of the umpire . |
| 30 | I agree with my hon. Friend that perhaps a moral can be drawn from that . |