Example sentences of "[noun pl] be probably the " in BNC.

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1 In this situation , bearing in mind that the very prevalent hydroxyl and hydronium ions are probably the dominant cause in the hazard risk at 50Hz or 60Hz , it can be presumed that a hazard free situation prevails at 100Hz or 120Hz .
2 Owls are probably the major contributors to fossil bone assemblages .
3 Plans for conversion into a banking hall and offices are probably the most acceptable so far in that they would involve minimal disruption to the interior and would generate the large sums needed to repair the building fully .
4 We might expect that aggressive fighting would be common in nature , because natural selection will favour the most successful animals in competition , and the strongest animals are probably the most successful in fights .
5 In terms of price and quality , contemporary Chinese rugs are probably the best value items produced today .
6 In terms of sheer quality , Chinese rugs are probably the best value items on the market today .
7 Aesop 's fables are probably the best known .
8 These early influences are probably the first to make an impression on the minds of young children , and this impression is confirmed in later school years , not least in classic literature .
9 Individual words are probably the most " mobile " parts of a language , so it should come as no surprise that words of Creole origin are used by blacks and whites within LE .
10 IF EVER there was a case for passing a law that forbade the British government from interfering in industry , the current difficulties in the coal and car-making sectors are probably the best examples available .
11 The sharing of pubs , clubs , cafes , schools , parks and street corners within a densely populated urban area encompassing several townships is probably the main vehicle of this interpersonal and inter-group transmission of the heroin habit .
12 The most important of these variables is probably the heating of the plate margin since this will affect its thickness and strength .
13 Although national parks and green belts are probably the most important elements in the ‘ special protection ’ of the countryside , there are a number of other instruments .
14 Your feet are probably the parts of your anatomy that will suffer most after a marathon — so we were particularly keen to hear what she had to say .
15 Although mice are probably the most frequently anaesthetized animals in laboratory work , it is still difficult to achieve true surgical anaesthesia without some mortality .
16 Visitors were probably the biggest problem of all , for people calling round did n't expect to find a barn owl sitting in the living room .
17 In post-Roman times , reoccupied hillforts and hilltops were probably the focal administrative points for their regions , and by late Saxon times royal palaces such as Cheddar , Yeavering , and the newly-discovered site at Malmesbury were important royal centres , as were the old established monasteries .
18 Using a new set of genuine Thomas Leavy documents based on his legal name change — the last thing he supposed the Federal authorities would be on the lookout for — Coleman then slipped back into the States , via Canada , for what he felt in his bones was probably the last time he would see his father and his country .
19 Until recently , it appeared that 300 megabytes was probably the limit of the technology but now magnetic media enthusiasts are talking about gigabytes ( thousands of megabytes ) soon becoming commercially available .
20 Dishwater fluids are probably the biggest containers to arrive in the kitchen .
21 Six weeks in the summer and two other holidays of three weeks are probably the average .
22 these Coward films are probably the nearest things we have to a valid modern school in British cinema … .
23 Its colours are probably the most spectacular in the Empire , consisting of purple and yellow , or alternatively purple and white .
24 ‘ You know , surfers are probably the first human beings to travel around peacefully , not to conquer .
25 The scope of this public duty is extremely wide , since the authorised institutions include , under section 3 , all ‘ deposit-taking businesses , ’ of which banks are probably the most important , but by no means the only relevant institutions .
26 The financial advisers of those days were probably the people who taught the ones who have been professional schemes .
27 The next two years were probably the most fruitful of Scott 's public life .
28 There is experimental work to show that a week or ten days may not be long enough and a fortnight to three weeks is probably the best theoretical period .
29 ‘ I 've done everything for Liverpool , and playing in the World Cup finals is probably the only big ambition I 've got left .
30 There might be other solutions open to organisations facing similar pressures ( one , " cooperative production " , is somewhat idealistically proposed by Piore , 1986 ) , but using temporary workers was probably the easiest to put into effect .
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