Example sentences of "perhaps even [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I remained resolute that my partnership with Charlie would come to an end the moment I was offered a place at university , I still believed that with his energy and drive , combined with my level-headed approach in all matters financial , we would surely have impressed my father and perhaps even Granpa Charlie . |
| 2 | They probably think that , like most of the white men in this evangelical belt between the coffee plantations and the colobus monkey habitat , I have religious connections and perhaps even powers , the sort of powers that cause money to come to pass . |
| 3 | Of course , there are many aspects of the Irish game , their back play in particular , that need attention , perhaps even surgery , but on account of their gallant , almost heroic performance , the overall diagnosis suggests slow but eventual full recovery . |
| 4 | Perhaps even royalty 's oil . |
| 5 | It will also challenge clubs like Nottingham — and perhaps even Cardiff — to become as effective as Saracens have been , not only in finding and developing new young talent , but in building such good relations with the junior clubs in their area as to make this process acceptable to both sides . |
| 6 | If theories are ever put to the test and proved right , then the theories disappear and they are replaced by facts , or perhaps even laws . |
| 7 | Behind the mask of her dark blue eyes lurked horror and shock , perhaps even guilt . |
| 8 | And , while they are badly in need of such innovations as a massive reafforestation programme , desalination facilities , an organised fishing industry , means to exploit their few mineral resources , and perhaps even tourism , they will not give up easily their island heritage . |
| 9 | Britain was proving itself to be better than the ungovernable ‘ banana republic ’ of hostile critics in 1975–6 , but still an ailing ex-imperial giant lacking focus and perhaps even faith . |
| 10 | Perhaps even perceptions ? |
| 11 | That erm it might be wise or advisable , I 'd be interested to hear your views Colin and others perhaps even council procedures , you know on , on how far you can go in checking out er because I mean , you know you get something which tells you what was happening three weeks ago . |
| 12 | But perhaps even misogynists can kick over the traces . |
| 13 | This opens the possibility ( and one acknowledged in conversation ) that communication could involve structured messages , perhaps even structure of the sort producing infinite generative capacity , without the creatures ever having passed the ‘ Gricean hump ’ that Bennett put them past even before occasion meaning had made its evolutionary debut . |
| 14 | But Dalton wrote no chemical equations , though he did use symbols to indicate composition and perhaps even structure . |
| 15 | In the past , the site 's been home to a church , a castle — perhaps even part of a palace . |
| 16 | Although upon return to Canada for what might prove to be no more than a temporary visit the mother 's situation might be unsatisfactory and she might suffer discomfort or perhaps even hardship , there is no evidence that there is a risk , let alone a great one , that the child 's return would place him in a situation which is intolerable . |
| 17 | Certainly , an attack on southern planning models , national legislation , and perhaps even bureaucratisation was implicit in all of this but the issue of personal culpability clouded and discredited these important points . |
| 18 | English political interests on balance dictated help for the Protestants , even though that in itself meant the risk of stirring up reaction from France and perhaps even Spain . |
| 19 | He 'd get the whole yarn about the blackmail , perhaps even Laura Channing 's name or telephone number . |
| 20 | Rumours were racing through the industry last week that Hewlett-Packard Co and DEC — and perhaps even IBM , apparently the most laggard of the trio — might indeed muster some support for Unix System Labs Inc 's Destiny launch on Tuesday , June 16 . |
| 21 | A structure exists by a set of laws , principles , perhaps even axioms that appear to bind the parts into a unity . |
| 22 | Besides saving on charges , you will also avoid rows with your bank manager , and perhaps even disconnection . |
| 23 | Happy May Day , and I 'm so sorry about the muddle with the draft I 've enquired at the head office of the Bank of Scotland , where I got it made out , and they seemed to think your Brno bank was being a bit dim , or perhaps even obstructionist , in telling you they could n't deal with it and that you 'd have to go to Prague to get it cashed . |
| 24 | Others publishers , with an eye on longterm prosperity , perhaps even survival , may wish to start building their launch pads from scratch and without delay . |
| 25 | The amount of time and energy staff need to spend in communicating ( and sometimes miscommunicating ) with each other comes over very strongly , and one can see how easily misunderstanding , resentment or perhaps even hostility can develop when individuals work in close proximity under pressure , even where channels of communication may seem open and well defined . |
| 26 | And if they recommend that , that may mean a little bit of trip , down to either Nottingham or perhaps even Derby , |
| 27 | Such aspects are conventional but non-truth-conditional elements of sentence-meaning , e.g. what we shall call conventional implicatures , and ( at least on many theories ) presuppositions , and perhaps even aspects of illocutionary force ( concepts expounded in the Chapters below ) . |
| 28 | Now and then , members of the aristocracy , perhaps even royalties , became acquainted with some Dissenting leader , and this was greatly talked about . |
| 29 | I have n't read such a self-consciously ‘ literary ’ book about climbing for some years , and that style came as a shock , perhaps even intrusion : |
| 30 | Yet we go on and on , driven by some creative demon , or perhaps even vanity , but the cost may be high . |