Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [be] perhaps " in BNC.

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1 With a final piece of advice that I should climb the hill opposite La Valdieu the next day , I look my leave of the little group , wondering whether they or I were perhaps a little insane .
2 When he or she is perhaps overwhelmed by events , offers of practical help may be exactly what the person could do with , rather than being asked to confront difficult emotional reactions .
3 But the wrappers are of no value to me , and you are perhaps glad to be rid of them .
4 They look like Rickenbackers , especially from fifteen feet away , and they 're perhaps fairly acceptable for the price , but they 're not comparable to Tokais .
5 Regular use of a small brush , and a squeeze of the foam in tank water will suffice to keep these filters in tip-top working order , and they are perhaps the easiest to maintain .
6 However , even the best of these efforts , and they are perhaps in their fully fledged forms used more in psychology than in social research , do not reach up to the standards of measurement used in science or , less ambitiously , the higher levels of measurement represented by interval and ratio scales .
7 And it 's perhaps not surprising that Hollywood has begun to repay the compliment .
8 It is of limited usefulness , and it 's perhaps a requirement on local government that they could very well drop .
9 It 's about er ten years ago nearly that I er stopped being a teacher and when I was a teacher er up having to do assemblies er it was always something that I did with great reluctance and er was er pleased if I could get other people to do it er it seems rather odd then er that I 've actually said yes coming to do er an assembly here today and it 's perhaps a sign of mental instability on my part .
10 I would have thought that was a more likely erm But er we 're obviously we 're speculating and it 's perhaps
11 And it 's perhaps up to the new civilian C P O to go to the likes of Mick and say I ca n't do this , I have not been trained to do it yet , until I have been trained to do it perhaps P C should continue using his skills .
12 With the exception of Wollen , the contributors to the Scrapbook and the Boston text convey little concern for the forms of political organisation espoused by the Situationists , and it is perhaps symptomatic of their interest in the SI as a purely aesthetic phenomenon .
13 The evolution of flight led to generally light and fragile skeletons , and it is perhaps not surprising that avian fossils are so uncommon , and when found , so often fragmentary .
14 This may well be the most effective answer to the problem of low-interest categories , and it is perhaps surprising that so few library authorities operate circulating collections — even given the administrative problems involved .
15 Clearly , we are getting further and further away from the causes of delinquent behaviour , and it is perhaps wisest to think in terms of causal processes when looking at criminal behaviour .
16 Far more than is suspected are inefficient wives responsible for the misery of many back-street homes , and it is perhaps more than a coincidence that some of the Lancashire towns with the worst repute for their high rate of infant mortality have no girls ' club within their areas .
17 Many now feel that local government is vulnerable to extremism by both right and left and it is perhaps no longer the right vehicle to deliver major public services .
18 Many of the farmers on the committees , whether council or ministerial appointees , are conservationists too and it is perhaps important to stress that it is not the quality of the individuals involved that is of concern .
19 Yet the high-momentum electrons and positrons observed must eventually be explained somehow and it is perhaps worth remarking that it is not new in physics for novel phenomena to be observed when looking for something else .
20 This view is essentially anthropomorphic ; we are mammals after all and it is perhaps comforting to think that our own distant relatives so directly proved their supremacy over slow-witted reptiles that had nothing to fight with but their bulk .
21 Libraries with very small branch establishments have always faced this problem , and it is perhaps not surprising that Scottish libraries who face the additional problem of very low population densities and widely spaced service points , do not score highly on ‘ amount ’ of formal training :
22 The letter even speaks of their ‘ rights in the matter ’ , and it is perhaps surprising that the question was not asked whether there was a case for complaint to the European Court of Justice .
23 This may seem a very gloomy picture , and it is perhaps exaggerated , but leaders of minority groups are encouraging social workers at all levels to make adequate and appropriate provision .
24 It is not in Marx 's own writing that the idea of ‘ falseness ’ in ideology occurs and it is perhaps surprising that the notion of falseness is attributed to him ( e.g. Hirst 1976 : 385 ; Lichtheim 1967 : 18 ) .
25 Much of it is not new ; and it is perhaps better described as ‘ market economics ’ [ Brittan , 1975 ] .
26 These price and cost interrelations were not well and explicitly understood at the time , and it is perhaps anachronistic to criticise the industry for not adopting them .
27 Clearly the relativistic approach of Becker is self evidently required in one form or another in any sociology of deviance , and it is perhaps a rather miserable reflection on the state of the discipline that such an elementary argument is ignored by those who see it as clashing with their struggle for admission to the club of natural science .
28 The dramaturgical metaphor would suggest that we look to the audience for the arbitration of the action , and it is perhaps no surprise that the peer group emerged as crucial in this respect .
29 She finds herself to be even more mysterious than she knew , rather like her author , who likes to say that ‘ I have another person within , and it is perhaps that person who writes my books ’ .
30 The School buildings were by now almost 200 years old , and it is perhaps strange that there is only one contemporary description of them as a school ; " … there is a neat free grammar school " ( The Itinerant , 1st May 1794 ) .
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