Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] probable that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's probable that the kidnapped girl was an addict . ’ |
| 2 | It 's probable that the memory of most children of our generation is of women as workers . |
| 3 | Polls in medium or small communities were not often violent ; but it is probable that the same tensions were present as in Ajdabiya , and that they were exacerbated by the absence of campaign , by the necessity of choosing among ideologically undifferentiated candidates , and by the prolonged confrontation of voters in a confined space . |
| 4 | It is probable that the hook was initially a weapon , a spin-off from techniques of spearing , and gradually replaced the more primitive ‘ gorges ’ that relied on wedging rather than penetration . |
| 5 | ‘ While researchers can as yet give us no clear answers as to what this signifies ’ he said , ‘ it is probable that the brain will be affected by the chemical working environment as we nowadays know it in factories , office buildings with an unhealthy internal climate and polluted city air ’ . |
| 6 | It is probable that the jawless fish lived by grubbing in the sediment , or perhaps by filter feeding , possibly exploiting organic material derived from the plants that were taking to life on land at the same time . |
| 7 | It is probable that the soliloquy is based on a speech of Calisto in Rowe 's The Fair Penitent : |
| 8 | It is probable that the actual idea was the synthesis of discussions , but it was the one that Stirling adopted , starting a fruitful partnership with what became known to L Detachment as ‘ The Desert Taxi Service ’ . |
| 9 | Gonorrhoea is not a modern disease , and it is probable that the reference in Leviticus , Chapter 15 , to an ‘ issue out of flesh ’ is to gonococcal urethritis . |
| 10 | Previously it is probable that the state of the harvest decided the need for the additional month . |
| 11 | Had he never existed , it is probable that the Almoravid Moors , under their fanatical leader Yusuf , would have overrun a far greater area of central Spain — and perhaps prevented the gradual blurring of the two cultures which produced the later kingdoms of Moorish Spain and thereafter the great empire of the sixteenth century . |
| 12 | It is probable that the Dexter was developed from very small Kerries but the two breeds are now genetically distinct , though the longer-legged type of Dexter is potentially a useful gene reservoir for the rare Kerry . |
| 13 | If the responses are to be analysed without a great deal of trouble it is probable that the likely answers have been thought of beforehand and that certain likely response categories are already incorporated in the schedule itself . |
| 14 | As ozone depletion continues , and the ‘ holes ’ become bigger , it is probable that the two poles will be the worst affected regions because of their extreme , but favourable , weather conditions . |
| 15 | On this argument , it is probable that the aggregate supply of labour will have a positive slope as shown in Fig. 2.5 . |
| 16 | It is probable that the owl was after beetles or insects rather than live rabbits . |
| 17 | It is probable that the importance of what has been sometimes termed in India as ‘ famine crime ’ preceded British rule . |
| 18 | It is probable that the university buildings were sited on the line of the geomantic Taurean figure and this pagan connection accounts for the violent suppression of the university by the Pope in the early seventh century . |
| 19 | In this example , it is probable that the background sound to the cutaway will match the rest of the sequence . |
| 20 | However , if the repurchase price contained in the options is the market value at the date of exercise , it is probable that the buyer acquires both the opportunity to benefit from any increase in the value of the asset and the risk of loss due to an adverse change in its value . |
| 21 | Although it is probable that the same applies to established onshore centres , the fact is that it is the offshore centres , especially those in the Caribbean , that are most at risk from drugs money . |
| 22 | Provision is made for deferred taxation only to the extent that it is probable that the tax will become payable , and is at the rate at which it is estimated that the tax will be paid . |
| 23 | While it is probable that the number of births recorded is as accurate as we are likely to need , the records of some social events are , by their nature , likely to be incomplete . |
| 24 | It is probable that the dryopithecin apes were mainly arboreal , but it is not clear at this stage what their diet was in such an environment . |
| 25 | It is probable that the agnathan globin sequences simply represent the primitive craniate sequences from which other gnathostome sequences were derived , perhaps by gene duplication . |
| 26 | It is probable that the risk factors for multi-infarct type are similar to those for stroke in which hypertension is implicated . |
| 27 | For spouses it is probable that the entry into the carer-dependant relationship is influenced by the couple 's previous marital history and relationship . |
| 28 | The parricide probably occurred in different parts of the globe , where groups were at the first stage in the evolution of Homo sapiens , It is probable that the killing was done , although Freud is not insistent on the point , if the horror of the actual deed has been faced emotionally and the resistance to the idea that it was a deed is not based on emotional resistances . |
| 29 | It is not too much to say that the quoted argument has the strength of this : We say it is probable that the spoon is under the napkin ; the relation of " being under " is therefore a relation of probability . |
| 30 | ( It is probable that the majority of idioms began their lives as metaphors ; and synchronically , transitional cases , which are idioms for some and metaphors for others , are not uncommon . |