Example sentences of "or perhaps [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this were ever done , then unless some other constituency took him on board in time for the general election , or perhaps unless he stood and won in his constituency as some kind of independent Labour candidate with at least PLP support , then , on the declaration of the result in his constituency , he would lose any right to remain Prime Minister . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ He can excuse himself by showing that the escape was owing to the plaintiff 's default ; or perhaps that the escape was the consequence of vis major , or the act of God ; but as nothing of this sort exists here , it is unnecessary to inquire what excuse would be sufficient . |
| 4 | Either that , or perhaps that she had n't asked very many pointed questions . |
| 5 | Never before , or perhaps since , have birds been portrayed with such vitality , dexterity , and accuracy . |
| 6 | Despite revolutionary zeal , or perhaps because of it , they sought immediate compensations for the miseries of daily life , and spontaneous methods of attack which they mistook for political strategy . |
| 7 | ‘ Inflation ’ , as this is called , got a rapturous reception when it was put forward in 1980 , despite , or perhaps because of , its weirdness ( cosmologists , after all , undergo years of training so that they can say things like ‘ When the universe was the size of a grapefruit ’ without blushing or laughing ) . |
| 8 | Or perhaps because of it . |
| 9 | Despite their size , or perhaps because of it , many saguaros have been stolen from the desert to be sold , at huge prices , to ornament smart Californian gardens . |
| 10 | Reynard can not help but be cautious about this information , despite its apparent supernatural origin , or perhaps because of it . |
| 11 | John Newsom , who later became my friend , endeared himself to headmasters by asserting the principle that as much freedom as possible in the running of schools should be delegated to heads — even although , or perhaps because , he well knew that many of them were rogues . |
| 12 | And we only have to look at those who are afflicted in any one of these areas to see which people seem to be evolving in spite of ( or perhaps because o ? their difficulties . |
| 13 | She had not troubled to dress , despite , or perhaps because of , the fact that she had male visitors . |
| 14 | And despite ( or perhaps because of ? ) its use of the Rimsky version , the Karajan is easily the best conducted , sung and recorded . |
| 15 | Despite this wealth , or perhaps because of it , enthusiasm should be tempered and caution exercised . |
| 16 | And in spite of , or perhaps because of , this framework , they all seemed to have such fun , such carefree , girlish fun . |
| 17 | That little knife slashed sharply , circumcising the very tip of the digit , and even before the Larramen cells could clot — or perhaps because the blade was treated with some special anti-coagulant — a sprinkling of bright blood fell like rubies from each fingertip to mingle in the chalice . |
| 18 | Despite , or perhaps because of , these successes Channel Four is also under scrutiny from the ideologues and reformers . |
| 19 | America , despite ( or perhaps because of ) its smaller state sector , has been slow to see the point of it . |
| 20 | Despite , or perhaps because of , this late arrival social anthropologists are much given to tracing their intellectual pedigree to as remote and as illustrious ancestors as they can uncover . |
| 21 | Despite , or perhaps because of , the disparity in their characters and backgrounds , Colin Agnew and Paul Getty became close friends . |
| 22 | And despite ( or perhaps because of ) all the loans and all the aid , the net effect is that billions of dollars have actually moved out of the poor countries and into the rich countries . |
| 23 | He , and others , appear to have avoided mentioning the landau , possibly through ignorance of its identity , or perhaps because its subsequent delivery to Blücher inhibited reference to it . |
| 24 | In spite of all this , or perhaps because of it , we made an early enough start to reach Aurillac in plenty of time to buy our picnic lunch and see something of the old town . |
| 25 | It was not an auspicious time for a new play to open , in any case , and the reaction of the critics was decidedly mixed — in spite , or perhaps because , of Eliot 's labours the meaning of the play remained elusive and its symbolism jarred with the realism of its setting . |
| 26 | Michael Lee , although born and reared in squalor on London 's wharves — or perhaps because of it — was not fastidiously clean . |
| 27 | However , it is also an area where great failures can occur , despite or perhaps because of the presence of such people . |
| 28 | Sukarno suffered from malaria ; in 1938 he was moved to Benkulen in Sumatra , perhaps for humanitarian reasons ( in 1936 Hatta and Sjahrir were moved from their vile jungle camp ) , or perhaps because the Dutch hoped that a more Islamic environment would complete his ‘ conversion , from politics to religion , for Islam in Sumatra was more powerful than the syncretic faith of Java . |
| 29 | Henry wondered if his chum , the great young cellist , had taken untimely to bed because he was trying to keep out of Henry 's marriage , or perhaps because he was nursing loneliness . |
| 30 | Perhaps they arise because the government does not recognize the true costs of its new policies , or perhaps because of a resistance to making a particular policy effective which comes from within the central government machine . |