Example sentences of "[conj] perhaps [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most striking features of IBM 's lamentable personal computer business is that there is not a single reason embedded in the hardware why IBM mainframe and AS/400 users should buy their personal computers from IBM rather than from its army of tormentors led by Compaq Computer Corp : presumably few customers have actually asked IBM for 3270 and 5250 emulation in ROM on the motherboard at no extra charge in its PS/2s — or perhaps IBM thought that would kill off its dumb tube business and resisted until it was too late — now it makes no money on personal computers and sells few dumb tubes . |
| 2 | Well I expect your father will have to take us out or perhaps Anne 'll pick us up . |
| 3 | Or perhaps London had betrayed me. lt had been done before , it would be done again . |
| 4 | Or perhaps Romania could be the testing ground for co-operation between Nato and the Warsaw Pact and they should mount a joint expeditionary force . |
| 5 | Or perhaps Argol had an enlightened policy towards young people . |
| 6 | ‘ I had hoped that Bishop Julian or perhaps Rosalind might be of use here . |
| 7 | Or perhaps Mrs A is holding forth on her views on battered wives or battery hens or baptizing babies , really with the hope of having a head-on argument or of converting someone to her way of thinking . |
| 8 | Or perhaps OS/2 simply solved problems that do not trouble most customers . |
| 9 | If Tommy Carr played for say Carlow , or perhaps Sligo or maybe Fermanagh , would there have been the same fuss ? |
| 10 | Perhaps Emilia Lanier was Will 's Dark Lady , or perhaps Will was just trying to help his friend Lord Southampton . |
| 11 | Stiggins is Simon ( St Simon the Zealot or perhaps Simon Pure ) to all appearance , but Walker ( cockney slang for ‘ humbug ’ ) in reality . |
| 12 | Or perhaps Mounce would punch him in the eye . |
| 13 | With only the middle trilogy of nine planned films completed , the vein seemed to have been worked out — or perhaps Lucas was wiser than other compounders of sequels in stopping while he was still ahead . |
| 14 | But then only Showaddywaddy , or perhaps Blondie , or especially Tony Stevens and his band , with their crazy covers of recent chartbusters could convert this isolated Irish apathy into something slightly lively . |
| 15 | Or perhaps Laura had taken all her things with her . |
| 16 | ‘ At the end of the day , we build about two ships a year and we have the option of using dry docks at Harland & Wolff in Belfast or perhaps Yarrow , ’ he said . |
| 17 | The nearest known breeding-place is Bear Island , or perhaps Novaya Zemyla , the large island to the north of Siberia . |
| 18 | A metric space is a set , commonly called X , or perhaps S. The elements of X are commonly called ’ points ’ , since they are supposed to have no size . |
| 19 | Or perhaps Gloucester had simply discovered that Hastings ' distaste for Woodville authority would not , after all , extend to the deposition of Edward V. Mancini , as well as later sources , has references to Gloucester sounding out the loyalty of Hastings and others , and a clumsy enquiry may have alerted Hastings to the duke 's intentions as well as warning Gloucester that Hastings would not co-operate . |
| 20 | Or perhaps Gloucester had simply discovered that Hastings ' distaste for Woodville authority would not , after all , extend to the deposition of Edward V. Mancini , as well as later sources , has references to Gloucester sounding out the loyalty of Hastings and others , and a clumsy enquiry may have alerted Hastings to the duke 's intentions as well as warning Gloucester that Hastings would not co-operate . |
| 21 | Erm , so in this , so in times of the Woodrow Wilson or perhaps Freud er , took the subject too , too far . |
| 22 | She had assumed rather a lot , it seemed — or perhaps Caro had deliberately misled her ? |
| 23 | Or perhaps Miss Hopper should speak to the women who 've been raped by some of the men in here . |
| 24 | Looked at from the West , Franois Mitterrand or perhaps Karl-Otto Pohl , president of the Bundesbank , might seem more appropriate technocratic candidates . |
| 25 | She must , thought Morse , have put her hand over the mouthpiece , or perhaps Downes himself had been waiting silently ( for some reason ? ) beside the phone , for there was no audible summons before a man 's voice sounded in his ear . |
| 26 | There was talk of playing cards , or perhaps Lily would sing for them ? |
| 27 | Or perhaps Graham Mills was about to be named by the defector just before his murder . |
| 28 | Or perhaps Molly 's departure had in fact sown the seed of restlessness in her and the prospect of others — especially her zeide — emigrating to Palestine was beginning to nourish that seed and make it grow . |
| 29 | Or perhaps Sir Peter was contemplating the reactions of the other half of the population , the female half . |
| 30 | The name robertianum may be derived from a medieval scholar Robert , Duke of Normandy , or perhaps St Robert who founded the Cistercian order of monks . |