Example sentences of "perhaps that " in BNC.

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1 A project is a project , he wrote , and once it is begun it should be carried through to the end , regardless of doubts about meaning , doubts about long runs , or doubts about anything else , unless the body screams for you to stop , of course one can not go on for long against the screaming of the body , but then that merely means one has miscalculated , it merely means one has begun too soon or too late or perhaps that the entire project was a miscalculation .
2 Thus , in 1973 , we are no wiser than we were in 1948 : the experience of twenty-five years has shed no more light upon the question , does the death penalty deter ? than was available at the beginning — except perhaps that the neutrality of the evidence , which I have explained I find so logically impressive , has been reinforced .
3 Perhaps that came from his own experience of human love — we do n't really know .
4 Perhaps that had been too personal a remark .
5 She swept them out , following them , fearing perhaps that they would add to Harry 's fatigue , and he and I looked at each other across the suddenly empty room in a shared fundamental awareness .
6 Although enrolled student numbers increased during the period in all types of classes , membership of the WEA gradually declined , an indication perhaps that it was more for personal educational value rather than support for a wider social movement that adults attended District classes .
7 The underlying attitude is perhaps that most people accept mentally handicapped people and are sympathetic towards them , but remain inwardly glad that it has not happened to them or to their children — ‘ there but for the grace of God , go I. ’ They also continue to believe the many myths surrounding the handicapped which have been passed on for decades .
8 From time to time , the dun-coloured hills are washed with a light green , faint proof for the Palestinians perhaps that the desert bloomed before the Israelis created their state .
9 Perhaps that contributed to his good looks , thought Charles , and bent to pull up his wrinkled socks as Dimity had told him .
10 I had ‘ flu ’ at the time , and perhaps that made me rather jaundiced .
11 In general , though , it was not so much that the Radburn approach was questioned , but more perhaps that the densities at which it was increasingly being applied were inappropriate .
12 He paled for an instant , thinking perhaps that his socks had slid down , but they had n't .
13 It will be said perhaps that I should have combined some principle of conduct with propositions about the flavours .
14 It will be objected perhaps that it is too late in the day to try to re-establish our crumbling values on ‘ Be aware ’ , since the True is already sinking into the gulf which has swallowed the Beautiful and the Good .
15 For David there is not really a lot more to tell except perhaps that I got some new teeth and as a result a few more pounds have been gained .
16 Perhaps that we can be too clever for our own good ; those who spin and weave the complexities of human relationships are likely to get caught in their own tangles one day .
17 She or he may be able to suppress the compulsion for months or even years , believing perhaps that there are more worthwhile , less selfish ways to spend one 's time .
18 Small wonder perhaps that many buried their heads in the sand and refused even to think about the event until the last possible moment .
19 Better perhaps that you retire , enjoy the fortune you made from your book . ’
20 Apparently the International Multimedia Association , a party to COSE , is having discussions with Intel Corp about how to handle Intel 's own multimedia standard : perhaps that too will become part of the broadening COSE specification .
21 Pie'oh'pah stood his ground , knowing perhaps that his nakedness was his best defence .
22 The truth is perhaps that Lévi-Strauss 's conception of structure has no greater intrinsic value than Radcliffe-Brown 's — although it is made to carry a vastly more elaborate analytical superstructure .
23 His reply would be perhaps that the proof of the pudding is in the particular cases .
24 The wonder is perhaps that he has time to do any writing and research at all after running two companies — Pluto Press ( Australia ) and PR agency Social Change Media — and with partner Stephanie Dowrick , also a writer , bringing up two children .
25 To this is often ( but not always ) added an idea that a cause makes its effect happen , implying perhaps that to find a cause is to show why the effect had to happen as it did .
26 It looked the same as the other one to her , except perhaps that the knuckle bone of the little finger was more prominent than the rest and the finger itself rather stiff .
27 It is likely to be , even , that two mental events are not of the same type on two occasions when I give a more explicit description of my experience , perhaps that I was thinking that my daughter is a quick thinker .
28 Well can I , can I , can we leave it perhaps that erm we , that the chief executive has received the er good advice of the board and will negotiate on the basis of the surrender of the
29 ways the ways perhaps that are not
30 But perhaps that only encouraged them to move faster elsewhere . ’
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