Example sentences of "and probably [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malinvaud assigns a special role to prices and incomes policies to effect a differential adjustment of W in relation to P , but how such a policy would operate in the absence of quite massive and probably unacceptable levels of state interference both in wage bargaining and in the pricing decisions of firms remains a disconcertingly moot point . |
| 2 | The addition of networking capabilities will mean a significant level of additional complexity and will require a proprietary and probably expensive support package . |
| 3 | As many fishkeepers , and probably all cichlidophiles , know the Lake Malawi Mbuna are fish of rocky habitats , with behavioural habits sometimes reminiscent on occasions , to Ghenghis Khan on a bad day . |
| 4 | I knew an empty beer keg when I was tied to one , and the last time I 'd seen that particular one there had been a young punk called Emma sitting on it nostrilling certain noxious and probably illegal substances . |
| 5 | An inquiry was authorised to look into these incidents , but when its chairperson , John Stalker , the Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police , was suddenly removed over allegations about his previous conduct as a police officer , it led to speculation that a cover-up was taking place to avoid implicating senior RUC officers in covert and probably illegal operations ( ibid.:70 ) . |
| 6 | This appeared to represent Diro 's ultimate rehabilitation — and effective immunity — following the exposure his highly dubious and probably illegal business activities in the late 1980s . |
| 7 | In his discussion of the decay of English myth , he holds out only the slender hope of the music hall and laments that in general modern dramatists and probably modern audiences are ‘ terrified of the myth ’ . |
| 8 | The high unemployment of the 1970s and 1980s seems unlikely to be a temporary phenomenon : in fact many experts predict a persistent and probably increasing level of unemployment in Western economies for the rest of the century . |
| 9 | John and Elizabeth Newson , authors of a report into the extent of parental punishment in the UK published yesterday , say : ‘ The majority of British parents interviewed seems to believe that physical punishment is an inevitable and probably necessary aspect of ordinary child upbringing . ’ |
| 10 | One would hope that the recently formed Department of National Heritage , being a much larger ministry with more prestige and probably better staff , would help with that problem . |
| 11 | The modern films are scientifically more respectable and probably better films , but every word of commentary trembles with piety and no chance is ever missed to remind us that man is the intruder , the destroyer , the only sinful animal in the biosphere . |
| 12 | OK — im small and dark and somewhat ‘ chubby ’ ( at the moment — too manuy pints lately … ) . does not look like a viking at all — more some kind of far east/portugese bloke — ill be wearing red puma states and probably black levis — if i see leeds-stuff inside i guess i will be unfolding my leeds ‘ smiley ’ shirt … jacket — du n no — how is the weather over there ? |
| 13 | Although proteinuria and fluid retention was the norm , many soldiers presented with acute dyspnoea and probably low pressure pulmonary oedema , although death from the acute respiratory phase was rare . |
| 14 | The latter allows more focused advertising and distribution and probably higher margins . |
| 15 | Small mammals were present in the Triassic — shrew-like animals with long noses , and probably insatiable appetites for smaller items of the fauna . |
| 16 | Of the Latin church music of Jacques Mauduit ( 1557–1627 ) , a Catholic , little survives except the end of his Requiem for Ronsard ( 1586 ) , an early and probably uncharacteristic work in the peculiar style of musique mesurée à l'antique which will be discussed in the next chapter ( p. 284 ) ; we know that he employed instruments in his annual Holy Week concerts at the Abbaye Saint-Antoine and the St. Cecilia celebrations in Notre Dame . |
| 17 | The women who assemble stationery or shoes have to inflict on their families the permanent , sickly , and probably unhealthy smell of glue and solvents . |
| 18 | Hold the leaders hostage in the hall whilst the larger force punch their way through the defences to take the Rorim from its leaderless and probably drunk defenders . |
| 19 | The underlying attitude in Whitehall and Washington was not so different from that of Deng Xiaoping : the events of last year had been part of an essentially inscrutable and probably cyclical process which was peculiar to the Chinese . |
| 20 | The hypothesis was that firms were decentralizing in search of reserves of labour , and probably cheaper labour since wages were likely to be lower in areas with high unemployment ( 1976 , pp. 71 — 4 , 102 ) . |
| 21 | Loss of viral replication by interferon can lead to a substantial regression of liver disease and probably prolonged survival . |
| 22 | On the basis of the mammalian fauna , the hominoids appear to be associated with tropical forest , albeit a dry seasonal and probably deciduous forest . |
| 23 | Her appetite had apparently disappeared through the door with Adam , but she forced herself to eat breakfast , knowing she had a long and probably arduous day to get through . |
| 24 | In his account the history of art and the history of science were intrinsically linked : in the late 1960s this was an heretical claim to most historians of science ( and probably many historians of art ) . |
| 25 | Schrader 's film — darkly humorous , intensely claustrophobic — is n't anti-woman in the way On The Waterfront was , but it is a pessimistic and probably prophetic parable about men destined to remain cogs in a remorseless , unfeeling machine . |
| 26 | For too long the employment pattern in Britain and probably other countries has been distorted by stagnation . |
| 27 | Ultraviolet can cause skin cancers and cataracts ( and probably other ailments ) in humans and it is damaging to plants and marine life . |
| 28 | There was no strong correlation between the levels of condensed tannins and palatability , for , despite the debilitating effect of tannin on digestion in vitro , it is clear that the precise types of tannin , the substrate and probably other substances , besides the possibility of interspecific differences in the tolerances of them , all affect the edibility . |
| 29 | And probably other people do as well . |
| 30 | However , of genuine concern is the potential cruelty resulting from ‘ survival ’ or ‘ recovery ’ surgery used in the training of some veterinarians in the USA and probably other parts of the world as well . |