Example sentences of "it is perhaps a " in BNC.

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1 Although it is perhaps a cause of some concern that of the 8,000 trading member firms , some 4,000 have not yet received a compliance visit .
2 But it is perhaps a little too wild for a Canadian weekend .
3 It is Perhaps a pity that Mary Queen of Scots was not brought up on a diet of d'Ayala .
4 It is perhaps a measure of Leapor 's character that even where there is little hope that injustice will be overcome , she is willing to raise a protest .
5 It is perhaps a shame to divert attention and energy away from the act of making and being , toward analysis of how your makings and be-ing ( what you make and who you are ) are received by those who are empowered to see them .
6 It is perhaps a reflection of the overall picture in academic libraries that their rates of use were deemed to be quite good .
7 Indeed it is perhaps a pity that he did not take his own advice , after writing in the New Guide ‘ for the author of the present work might with greater ease , and probably with more advantage to himself , have worked up for the amusement of the eye a number of drawings and paintings during the time he has been engaged in this matter of mere utility ’ .
8 It is perhaps a tribute to Klemperer 's stature that all the recordings featured here continue to stimulate well after the CDs are returned to their place on my shelves .
9 It is perhaps a physical impossibility to be as aware of a bitter as of a sweet taste , but a toothache relentlessly pulls wincing sensibility to itself .
10 It is perhaps a technical point whether we regard this work — with its fragmented associations and obscure , perverse and personalised allusions , as an example of schizophrenic language or , as Brain argues , evidence of manic flight of ideas .
11 It is perhaps a feature which could be added to many of the existing railways in some way so that the many enthusiastic photographers can enjoy that aspect of our hobbies without some of the restrictions that are presented today ?
12 It is perhaps a reflection on its success that new recruits into AIB are now required to attend the Cranfield course at the beginning of their careers in the Branch .
13 It is perhaps a little too easily accepted by most commentators that because of the desire of the population at large to receive some immediate economic benefit from having won the war there was no alternative to seeking an American loan .
14 Both crises arose from discontent over the financing of the war , but it is perhaps a measure of the king 's failing powers that whereas in 1340–1 the lead in attacking his ministers had been taken by the king himself , the initiative now rested with a group of lay nobles , chief amongst whom , if some of the chroniclers are to be believed , was the young Earl of Pembroke .
15 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 .
16 Although he sounds the traditional warning that all electronics are aids to ‘ proper ’ navigation it is perhaps a sign of the times that he admits that many now see the chart-and- pencil methods as aids to the electronics …
17 it is perhaps a tribute to the resilience of both that they can come together at all : for the result , we may have to wait a few more cricket seasons .
18 It is perhaps a good deal less than certain that this third characterization is conceptually distinct from the first two .
19 I 'd like to I 'd like to thank the panel for the work which they have done on this very difficult issue and , although the convenor has said that it is perhaps a difficult thing to alter the text of such a document on the floor of the house , I think we also have to point out that this is our only opportunity to comment upon this particular draft which will become a definitive draft if passed by the general assembly today .
20 This assumption is hardly ever challenged ; yet it is clearly the case that many scientists are as incompetent in the humanities as many humanities graduates tend to be in the sciences ; it is perhaps a mark of the enormous divide we have made between the two areas that ability in one is often considered to preclude ability in the other .
21 It is perhaps a good way of avoiding the hermeneutic error .
22 It is perhaps a mistake , though , to try to identify too many categories of independent craftsmen , even though the sources can attest a surprising level of specialization ; in a small community , a jobbing builder could be his own mason , bricklayer , carpenter , tiler , thatcher , and slater , possibly even burning his own lime and making his own bricks .
23 Looking at it another way it is perhaps a neat coupling of the word 's etymology .
24 It is perhaps a closer relationship after all .
25 It is perhaps a matter of definition whether such families are counted as extended families or not ’ .
26 The relative absence of major revolts during the fifteenth century probably reflects the fundamental state of the economy , and it is perhaps a reasonable assumption that the basic prosperity of the peasantry in their relations with the land-owning class contributed to this .
27 It is perhaps a reminder to the parties ' advisers to encourage the parties to have one final read through the engrossments before execution .
28 It is perhaps a discouraging thing to say , but learners of English who are not able to talk regularly with native speakers of English , or who are not able at least to listen regularly to colloquial English , are not likely to learn English intonation , though they may learn very good pronunciation of the segments and use stress correctly .
29 WITH THE TRAGIC loss of Dave Moore and the Rolls-Royce Spitfire RM689 it is perhaps an appropriate time to reflect on the current status of airworthy Spitfires .
30 It is perhaps an anachronism to read back into New Testament times the usage of second-century Christians whereby this word ‘ seal ’ was explicitly used of baptism , or sometimes confirmation .
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