Example sentences of "which [is] perhaps " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a movement he has used many times and which is perhaps seen at its best in the pas de deux to the Meditation from Thai-s created for Anthony Dowell and Antoinette Sibley ; in A Month in the Country when Natalia dances with the Tutor to express her emotions ; and in Les Deux Pigeons in the final pas de deux , when the Young Man has returned to The Girl and tenderly dances with her in his arms ( see page 83 ) . |
| 2 | This revolutionary conclusion , which is perhaps the most important for the general reader of The Origin , is one easily supported by modern anthropologists although they might disagree with him about what exactly will happen when the change comes or even whether this kind of change can be predicted . |
| 3 | While I will put on Les Troyens , which is perhaps the greatest piece of audacity in the history of opera . |
| 4 | This ritual was practised until the last decade or so but has apparently now ceased , which is perhaps in the best interests of the dolphins . |
| 5 | Although this book is a discussion of the problems of biology , the first half of this chapter outlines the theory of genetics , which is perhaps the best established and least problematic area of biology . |
| 6 | Turing 's model is a prototype of a pattern-forming process which is perhaps too simple , but which does seem to be the kind of process we are looking for . |
| 7 | None of these structures competes with the others which is perhaps why they work as a trio . |
| 8 | Which is perhaps at least partly why that patient , anonymous woman waited at the gate to wave goodbye to Edith Cresson and why she will probably never read Claire Gallois 's book . |
| 9 | Kirkpatrick would replace , to some extent , Sher 's power of raw money with the power of existing institutions , which is perhaps a more appropriate viewpoint in the Scottish cultural context . |
| 10 | A further characteristic which is perhaps so obvious that it is rarely remarked on , is that farming is a skilled occupation . |
| 11 | There has also been a great deal of adulation which is perhaps even more harmful for it generates mysticism . |
| 12 | This represented a most enlightened step , which is perhaps even more remarkable when one appreciates that no educational institution was involved . |
| 13 | His more contemporary recollection , however , placed the farmhouse ‘ a quarter of a mile from Culbone Church ’ , a description which has almost always been said to identify Ash Farm , but which is perhaps more likely to refer to the former Withycombe Farm . |
| 14 | Clinically the reduced compliance in the great vessels will be manifest as an elevation of the systolic blood pressure , which is perhaps the reason for its frequent occurrence in the diabetic subject ( Pacy et al , 1985 ) . |
| 15 | This association , as implied previously , may relate to the antinatriuretic action of insulin which is perhaps the common link between obesity and elevated blood pressure ( Bjorntorp , 1982 ) . |
| 16 | I was never unduly ambitious , certainly not for financial or personal gain , but I have always felt compelled to strive for progress , which is perhaps the urge of all creative people . |
| 17 | Status . — Vagrant which is perhaps increasing . |
| 18 | Pilots and controllers in the Channel Islands understand one another 's problems very well and in a way which is perhaps without parallel in British civil aviation . |
| 19 | Watford manager Steve Perryman fears a Leeds backlash , but said : ‘ This year we 've taken on Blackburn , Ipswich and Middlesbrough — and beaten them all , which is perhaps a clue to our chances . |
| 20 | The Perks come from the third planet of a G class system in the region of Betelgeuse , where they live in warrens , underground , which is perhaps why they took so readily to the tunnels of Plenty . |
| 21 | Climbers are often confused with ramblers , which is perhaps not altogether surprising in view of their similarities , and is not helped by the practice in many nursery catalogues and garden centres of grouping the two together . |
| 22 | Upon binding InsP 3 , the receptor undergoes a large conformational change which is perhaps related to the coupling process leading to channel opening . |
| 23 | Op. 2 contains one of the finest of all German songs , ‘ Schenk mir deinen Goldenen Kamm ’ , which is perhaps best suited to a male voice . |
| 24 | A further concept was that of the Ka , which was inherent in gods , kings and men and which is perhaps best translated as meaning the life-force . |
| 25 | The streets themselves looked surprised , holding their breath in an anxious hush — a hush which is perhaps the strangest thing about the snow . |
| 26 | It does ; but Nozick is able to show more generally that on his account that principle fails , and ( which is perhaps more important ) to explain its failure . |
| 27 | If it 's a big discharge which is perhaps on a Royal Commission standard and it is consistently turning out say a 30 BOD and a 40 solids then it can be regarded as harmful and one would press for improvement to be carried out . … |
| 28 | There is no doubt that conditions in these towns , particularly in the first half of the nineteenth century , were dreadful but Professor Hoskins seems more anxious to apportion blame for this than to explain why it happened , which is perhaps more important . |
| 29 | But the font is of the twelfth century , so there was a church here then ; and deep in the churchyard to the east of the chancel is a buried wall which is perhaps the east wall of a Saxon church . |
| 30 | Dorothy Sayers separates her description of the picture and her list of the fallen paints here by only a few pages ( which is perhaps why I guessed , for once ) but you can see how similar clues can be kept in two parts with dozens of pages between them . |