Example sentences of "and perhaps " in BNC.
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| 1 | We agree to help and perhaps I can combine the two visits . |
| 2 | An enormous amount of work has been done and perhaps still more remains to be done in arranging works of art in exact sequence of time . |
| 3 | My aim was to investigate the symptoms of decay and perhaps to discover in the ‘ capriciousness and the return to chaos ’ a law which would vouchsafe one an insight into the intimate workings of art . |
| 4 | A diagram of the art world , according to Wolfe , would be made up , in addition to the artists , of ‘ about 750 culturati in Rome , 500 in Milan , 1,750 in Paris , 1,250 in London , 2,000 in Berlin , Munich , and Düsseldorf , 3,000 in New York , and perhaps 1,000 scattered about the rest of the world . |
| 5 | ‘ The truest Plagiarism is the truest Poetry ’ , claims Thomas Chatterton , warming to Ackroyd 's theme , and perhaps overdoing it , along with Ackroyd 's Wilde , who had been able to believe that ‘ almost all the methods and conventions of art and life found their highest expression in parody ’ . |
| 6 | And perhaps we might imagine that they are the same but different . |
| 7 | They turned nomadic and mingled with the nomads of the Sudan , where they were to consider building a further house and perhaps settling down . |
| 8 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 9 | That Bellow , this participant in Roth 's inner life , can also be said to be out there in the world as his friend , and perhaps his rival , is a fact which does not help one to decide whether or not to trust the reports of literary duality — what comes in has to have been out — but it is very much in the tradition . |
| 10 | Levi was interested in action , purpose , work , and capable of them : and the capacity may have been formed in contention with a desire to withdraw and perhaps to give up . |
| 11 | He is a schoolteacher , 29 years old — the age of Christ at Calvary , whose name is often in his mouth , averse though he is to ‘ deities ’ , and perhaps of Hamlet , whose words enter the novel . |
| 12 | I recommend that you read Hare 's trilogy The History Plays , which include Knuckle , Licking Hitler and Plenty — and perhaps his earlier play Teeth 'n' Smiles . |
| 13 | There will probably also be some classes in radio , television and film techniques and perhaps singing too , but by far the largest proportion of time will be allotted to the production exercise which is part of every term 's work . |
| 14 | And perhaps even more to us as modern actors was Alison Legatt , then playing with Noël Coward and Gertrude Lawrence every evening . |
| 15 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 16 | And perhaps she … |
| 17 | Constable Perkins was torn between keeping an eye on the scene of the crime — and perhaps making a brilliant arrest — or calling up reinforcements . |
| 18 | It is indeed remarkable — and perhaps a comment on the tunnel vision of many in academic life — that no previous scholars have looked for the Belgian detective 's literary antecedents in the most obvious of sources , the Medieval Mystery Play . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It can be quite painful , for the insider is studying his own social navel , with the potential always present that he will recognize this to be only one of a number of arbitrary possibilities and perhaps also find that many practices are built on the flimsiest of moral precepts . |
| 21 | Dick Hobbs ( 1988 ) lived with thieves and detectives as they set out to ‘ do the business ’ , and perhaps one of the most effective pieces of participant observation in recent times has been the four-volume Policy Studies Institute work on the police in London ( 1983 ) . |
| 22 | He argued , historically , that he knew ‘ of no period in which the police have had such a loud and didactic public presence , … [ or ] when they have offered themselves as a distinct interest as one of the great ‘ institutions ’ and perhaps the first in the realm ’ . |
| 23 | Most of these were undetectable in that there were few enquiries I could pursue after the event ; for example , the purse stolen by an unknown thief an hour or two prior to the report and perhaps with the exact time and location of the theft unknown left little chance for skilled investigation . |
| 24 | Also , the opponent may fall in an unexpected direction , so that you have to spin around and perhaps take a step to reach him . |
| 25 | ‘ Seriousness ’ , a key word in his vocabulary , and perhaps the most important trait of his character , is ever ready to break down into self-mockery , ever willing to enjoy the jeux d'esprit with which his work and art are replete . |
| 26 | More recently , and perhaps begging the question of its mental significance , it has come to be known as the Readiness Potential ( RP ) . |
| 27 | Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought . |
| 28 | In the long term , I 'd only like to see more effort aimed at subject matter , and perhaps , in some cases , less concern with veneer quality |
| 29 | The Anniversary Organising Committee had felt that a clock should be commissioned to replace the one which had been stolen , and perhaps because I have for some years specialised in the reproduction of historic clocks , my name was one of those considered . |
| 30 | The two feet would shrink with a cheating stick , and perhaps we could avoid some of the easier but time-consuming lower pitches by sneaking in along the first terrace from an easier route . |