Example sentences of "[be] perhaps a " in BNC.
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| 1 | These substantial , and obviously expensive works are perhaps a little surprising , as cloth making in the Chalford area had been declining . |
| 2 | We are perhaps a somewhat blunt family . |
| 3 | The sound quality varies throughout the recital , so that the somewhat dry acoustic in Schulz-Evler 's ‘ Blue Danube Paraphrase ’ , ( sensationally performed by Chiu ) sounds somewhat mis-matched against the bloom of the Busoni pieces , and the Liszt lieder transcriptions are perhaps a notch too dry . |
| 4 | But the results of the best ‘ neutrino-catching ’ experiment so far carried out are perhaps a little worse than the expectations of the most depressed pessimist : in 1965 a team of scientists recorded a grand total of seven neutrinos in nine months ! |
| 5 | There are perhaps a dozen incredible places that you must see in the Orient . |
| 6 | In all this , there are perhaps a couple of things which look plausible when we compare the philosopher 's child with our mental picture ; Aristotle 's observation that children are immature and Mill 's suggestion that they might need protection . |
| 7 | His portrayal of the choleric and sanguine temperaments is very good indeed and although the two middle movements are perhaps a shade fast , there are still splendidly in character . |
| 8 | There is more to these pieces than just a virtuosic exterior , though I should add that they are perhaps a great deal more amusing to perform than to listen to ‘ en bloc ’ . |
| 9 | I think today that if someone was designing a house one would incorporate all the modern additions which have suddenly become fashionable such as double porches , doubleglazing and er patio windows , I think that these things are perhaps a development from , in the same way as this house is a development from the rooms and the flats we lived in in London so that the modern conceptions of the things I 've mentioned could be incorporated as normal in the house certainly would be cheaper to incorporate them when building the house than adding them on . |
| 10 | Such combinations are perhaps a sub-type of the ‘ academic ’ degree course . |
| 11 | Others which are perhaps a little bit of er a change from what we 've been used to doing , |
| 12 | Agfa has just launched a network of nine bureau round the country and there are perhaps a further dozen individual set-ups currently operating , many as part of an existing desktop publishing bureau and so capable of providing assistance with the overall design of the presentation . |
| 13 | Even the best examples of restoration , and there are perhaps a few , fall far short of compensating for the lost of ‘ real countryside ’ . |
| 14 | For the Roman period , settlement patterns are perhaps a little more precise . |
| 15 | ‘ We are perhaps a little unusual in this region in that we produce only red wine , ’ the Baronne went on . |
| 16 | Shorter maturities are perhaps a little too volatile and respond to day-to-day liquidity conditions too readily to be used as such a guideline . |
| 17 | The current serious cut-backs in adult education and the social services due to economic difficulties are perhaps an indication that the Church should step in to make available its local resources in building plant and volunteer personnel . |
| 18 | They had been perhaps a mile and a half off the river mouth when the hurricane hit . |
| 19 | In a few seconds — it had been perhaps a minute in all since I had lost sight of them — I was standing under the tree , on an unrevealing carpet of shrivelled carats . |
| 20 | the bypass that end of town would have been perhaps a little bit clearer . |
| 21 | So we 've been perhaps a little |
| 22 | You 're perhaps a little nervous of change you have n't got really a desire for adventure or anything too challenging . |
| 23 | At the peak of the breeding season there are said to be perhaps a quarter of a million sooty terns nesting on Aride , but now in October there were only a few hundred . |
| 24 | I I think if we get one of them we 'll be doing very well , and to get two would be perhaps a bit naughty . |
| 25 | So it 'd be perhaps a little bit bigger than this big one cos the small one would n't make a lot of difference so perhaps it would be that , that big , or something . |
| 26 | On the corner I think would be perhaps a good idea , do you think ? |
| 27 | Franca was amazed at her sudden power to develop vivid visual images of her mental states , a power which she had never exercised before , and which she thought of , not without satisfaction , as being perhaps a symptom of incipient madness . |
| 28 | Geoff was a sturdy wing-half with a refinement and vision of play which were perhaps a little too sophisticated for the Palace teams of his day , where we were forced to perform in the hurly-burly of the old 3rd Division South , and in the end his career was finished by a nasty knee injury sustained in mid-1952–53 . |
| 29 | Griffith seems to have supposed that the cracks which he thought existed were scattered throughout the interior of the glass and were perhaps a consequence of a failure of the molecules inside the glass to join up completely when the glass hardened . |
| 30 | He allowed her more freedom of choice than many of his clients who were perhaps a better advertisement for his dressmaking skills . |