Example sentences of "[is] perhaps [adv] " in BNC.

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1 But if this is what love does to you , it 's perhaps just as well you 've never suffered from the malady before . ’
2 All these women are expressing a primal female energy that 's perhaps unconsciously trying to balance out the spirit of rock , super-macho style .
3 I see well it 's perhaps ultimately the important thing but erm .
4 He 's perhaps best known for his love of livebearers — but the fishhouse holds a great many other species — some breeding projects , some pets , including a superb ‘ pair ’ of snakeheads , Derek 's new pride and joy .
5 And here she 's telling Ruth , now what you 've got ta do , she 's she 's got him , she 's got her introduced to Boaz and she tells him it 's a strange custom , one that 's perhaps even stranger in our eyes today but there er after the party , the great harvest supper she 's , the the they lie down in the barn together , they all just , they 're tired it 's , it 's , the party 's gone on into the wee hours of the morning , and there they just , they do n't bother going home , they lie down there in the barn together all of them and she says to Ruth what you must do according to the custom is , you go and you lie at the feet of Boaz and wait , just wait , and wait for him to respond to you .
6 But that 's that 's perhaps easily remedied , if you could get a er a driving licence holder to take them , who , a volunteer driving licence holder , among one of the parents or somebody who could take the children at periodic intervals to visit the hospital to do this sort of thing .
7 And I would think it 's perhaps rather foolish of Mr Coombes to actually raise this issue .
8 Quite for me it depends on i i in a sense I think it 's perhaps more subliminal .
9 Well th th the auxiliaries would have one shop steward like for brushing and tacking , mending you know there 's perhaps only be fifty altogether .
10 The only fault — if you could call it a fault on a brand-new guitar — is that it 's perhaps still a bit closed-in and inhibited .
11 That 's perhaps enough .
12 Experience may help you take some of these into account but if you went for a fixed fee you may have to pitch it at such a level to allow for these that it 's perhaps twice what it might be and you could lose the client .
13 It 's perhaps perhaps easier to see it as the as the N As and the O Hs though okay or if we did it with sulphuric acid we 'd have hydrogen sulphate plus sodium hydroxide what 's that going to give us ?
14 This is perhaps particularly true of Christians .
15 It is perhaps particularly appropriate to consider tourism in an issue of the magazine whose theme is writers .
16 This is Perhaps particularly true of Freeports , although whether these can be regarded as central to inner-urban Policy is very debatable .
17 It is perhaps particularly ironic that as yet we have no studies which have attempted to evaluate interventions from the point of view of the children themselves .
18 The additional part , which does not have to do with the connections stated by independent conditionals , is perhaps particularly necessary in connection with our conviction about the explanatoriness of the causal items .
19 The argument on objectives is perhaps particularly noteworthy .
20 This is perhaps particularly true of LEA schemes which are heavily dependent on checklists .
21 This is perhaps particularly true when depreciation charges are based on current values .
22 In the 1930s and 1940s , although the impact of man was becoming increasingly more evident from situations like the dust bowl , the Tennessee Valley Authority ( TVA ) , and the much greater use of fertilizers , this situation was not fully acknowledged in physical geography and this is perhaps particularly startling given the appearance of books on soil erosion ( e.g. Jacks and Whyte , 1939 ) .
23 Just how great the change has been is perhaps best illustrated by reference to the number of daily commuters into London .
24 This is perhaps best understood by the way both choreographers frequently show that certain steps can be danced sur les pointes but can also be jumped , e.g. petits changements or sissonnes piquées .
25 The idea of a selfish herd is W. D. Hamilton 's , and is perhaps best explained by his own imaginary example .
26 The style is difficult to place , and is perhaps best describes as exuberant .
27 The end of entitlement is perhaps best demonstrated by the introduction of the Social Fund in the social security reforms of 1988 .
28 ‘ Dr Lambert is perhaps best known for his initiative in the First World War towards the production of respirators .
29 The balance is perhaps best illustrated in the philosophy of what Diana Baumrind calls the ‘ authoritative parent ’ .
30 This is perhaps best illustrated with reference to earthquakes .
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