Example sentences of "[prep] perhaps the " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOR perhaps the 50th time since lunch , the hotline rings . |
| 2 | For perhaps the best of reasons , parents were reluctant to subject their daughters to even the slightest diminution in their standard of life . |
| 3 | Romantic love is the nearest most people reach to the peak experience , for the lover loses himself in the beloved and while he is in the state of love , he forgets all his problems and is happy for perhaps the first time in his life . |
| 4 | They used the straight original as the starting point for perhaps the most elegant demonstration of photographic compositing by computer yet devised . |
| 5 | ‘ But I have n't done anything — except be an absolute misery , ’ she added honestly as she realised for perhaps the first time what a wet blanket she had been . |
| 6 | ‘ I think , for perhaps the first and only time in his life , William had been trying to shake off his obsession , and he did it by getting as far away from temptation as possible . |
| 7 | For perhaps the first time in her life there was no feeling of restlessness deep in her soul , no desire to be somewhere else . |
| 8 | This time last night she 'd been lying in Dane 's arms , feeling safe , secure , at peace with the world for perhaps the first time in her troubled life . |
| 9 | By now she was really yelling , letting her natural feelings show for perhaps the first time in her conscious life . |
| 10 | Laura had felt , for perhaps the first time since her husband 's reappearance in her life , the warmth of a shared companionship . |
| 11 | On Harrogate , erm I think the discussions have clarified a lot of the the sort of outstanding issues that that er were between perhaps the County Council and erm Professor Lock , er not so much between ourselves and Harrogate , although we have the the issue , and I think if I read it right , this could well be er the only issue that is between us in the Harrogate area , the issue of the strategic sites . |
| 12 | Once one thinks in terms of the man on the one hand , and his writings on the other , one is surprise , even , I think , puzzled and disconcerted , by the disparity , the apparent disparity at any rate , between , on the one hand , the frequenter of the Faubourg Saint Germain salons , and , on the other , the author of À la Recherche , between the rather eccentric hypochondriac and the observer in the novel of human weakness , erm between perhaps the often precious and whimsical Figaro columnist and the architect of an astonishingly complex and lengthy novel , amounting to something like one and a quarter million words . |
| 13 | Marketability varies between assets ; some assets are easily realizable , but some — such as perhaps the shares of small companies — may not find ready buyers . |
| 14 | There is no evidence for this , which is probably why the quality of their argument can fall so low , with Shamir saying of perhaps the most influential and long-standing of PLO ‘ moderates ’ , Khalid Hassan , that ‘ when you see his face you know he can not be trusted . ’ |
| 15 | One notable exception to the bland , sanitised image-building that marks many a sporting biography is Jonathan , the story of perhaps the most gifted Welsh fly-half the Lions never had . |
| 16 | Lyle , as defending champion , had to be-jacket Faldo , and coincidentally it signalled the end of perhaps the finest stretch of golf played by a British golfer . |
| 17 | There are few more impressively glittering sights in Britain than the summer afternoon at the start of Ascot week when the members of perhaps the most prestigious order of chivalry in Christendom process through the grounds of Windsor Castle . |
| 18 | The document has a dual interest : its own intrinsic historical value ; and the insight it provides into the thinking of perhaps the greatest technician of the Cabinet machine in Cabinet Office history . |
| 19 | It has always been a source of amazement to me that anglers who are prepared to pay upwards of £100 for a rod and reel moan plaintively about the price of perhaps the most important item of tackle : the hook . |
| 20 | The woodlands of perhaps the greatest historic interest are those which make up the very extensive Bardney Forest . |
| 21 | The main concern of this chapter is to complete the description of intonational form , including analysis of perhaps the most difficult aspect , that of recognising fall-rise and rise-fall tones when they are extended over a number of syllables . |
| 22 | What we 'll be doing is er organising an exhibition which will come on stream at the museum in the middle of February , and will run until June , and that exhibition will include you know , er all , well , some of the material that , that 's been recorded , such as the , you know , the aural history tapes , er some of perhaps the , the press cuttings and things that have come out of the motorway . |
| 23 | The death of his mother certainly took from Louis-Napoleon the one person ( with perhaps the exception of his son ) to whom — during his entire life — he was totally devoted and to whose memory he was always faithful . |
| 24 | We have been particularly concerned in this report with perhaps the main exemplar of such a development : what has come to be called ‘ environmental scanning ’ . |
| 25 | Much practical work in agriculture is of an empirical type and the ‘ practical ’ farmer is often characterized by an empirical approach as contrasted with perhaps the more theoretically-based approach of his son who has attended agricultural college or university and who understands some of the theory underlying a more scientific approach to agriculture . |
| 26 | With perhaps the finest collection of boots and shoes in the Country . |
| 27 | After a special consideration of alcohol and older people , the next four chapters deal with perhaps the most important areas older people face , ill-health , dependence , depression and mental confusion . |
| 28 | I remember discussing broken tanks with perhaps the most experienced fishkeeper I know ‘ Aquarian ’ expert Dr David Ford , and he 's had only one breakage in his fifty years in the hobby . |
| 29 | The archetypal Englishman from Trinidad with perhaps the best-known voice in TV admits ‘ I 'm not just saying that . |
| 30 | Elsewhere in the issue we 've got plenty of wonderful walks , tropical tests , fun features , a cracking competition and an exclusive interview with perhaps the most famous mountaineer ever , Sir Edmund Hillary . |