Example sentences of "it [modal v] probably have " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If not , it 'll probably have to be the bus . ’ |
| 2 | It 's like , with Sharon Stone , even at the end she was still dependent on Michael Douglas , like , when he was going she was crying and she could n't kill him at the end cos she loved him so much and , you know what I mean , so no , Body of Evidence , it 'll probably have a rubbish end and she 'll probably marry the lawyer or something , but it was still good to see her beat , tying a man up , putting candle wax on him and shit . |
| 3 | But the Chinese Constitution contains all sorts of promises , too — so many that it could probably have been construed to forbid the People 's Liberation Army from shooting dead hundreds of unarmed civilians , and to prohibit the arbitrary arrest , summary trial or execution of thousands more . |
| 4 | The audience of willing females had shouted the answer so loudly that it could probably have been heard back in Monte Samana . |
| 5 | The phantom was initially nameless but the viewer knew that , if he had shouted Class or Guilt after it , it would probably have answered . |
| 6 | However the Occupational Pensions Board called for a pensions tribunal and Tony Thurham , chairman of the Association of Pensions Lawyers , said : ‘ Many pensions lawyers would have preferred a tribunal since it would probably have had greater powers and more staff . |
| 7 | He went on to add that , had his interest not been channelled into the evangelical Protestantism of the Free Church , it would probably have led to him getting in with ‘ a bad crowd ’ and joining the tartan gangs of loyalist youths . |
| 8 | Otherwise it would probably have been closed . |
| 9 | Instead of relaxing and letting nature take its course — it would probably have passed quite easily when he passed his water — he panicked and tried to remove the safety pin by not so gentle manipulations from the outside . |
| 10 | At one time the local authority would have provided only one library service — the public library — and if a school did have its own library it would probably have been administered by the public library . |
| 11 | If I had left the move till later it would probably have been much more traumatic . |
| 12 | Clearly the benefits of mahogany would have eventually become evident but it would probably have taken much longer . |
| 13 | If the Beast were a car it would probably have to complete with the Land Rover . |
| 14 | Botswana is just one country whose only daily paper is owned and run by the government , without whose assistance it would probably have no national paper at all . |
| 15 | Now if you 'd put that brain in a five mile tail-back on the M1 , it would probably have gone out of its mind . |
| 16 | Three out of four of these accidents fix on the properties of individual men as decisive variables directing the course of events : had Churchill been a less charismatic politician Britain might have given up her fight against Germany ; had Franco permitted an assault on Gibraltar it would probably have fallen ; and if Mussolini had not ‘ taken it into his head ’ to invade Greece , Hitler would have moved into Russia . |
| 17 | If Club Med or Universal Studios had thought of the idea first and sited it in Europe , it would probably have attracted government subsidies . |
| 18 | France was neither oblivious of nor indifferent to the outcome of the war which she was fighting and for which , as the US kept saying , she was primarily responsible ; but to have had a chance of winning at that stage it would probably have had to be a French rather than a Vietnamese war . |
| 19 | It would probably have taken an expert jadesmith more than ten years to complete such a suit . |
| 20 | Judging by the small holes it would probably have been attached to either wood or leather . |
| 21 | As space is very tight it would probably have to be limited to one page . |
| 22 | The value of the grand unification energy is not very well known , but it would probably have to be at least a thousand million million GeV . |
| 23 | The day before , Norway had declined Germany 's offer of a non-aggression pact , which no doubt weakened her position some months later , though even had she signed one , it would probably have made little difference . |
| 24 | Given the few moments of contemplation she 'd wanted , it would probably have been her own choice for the evening . |
| 25 | It would probably have been easier to create the actor first and then paste its image onto the background , but the way I 've done it here is n't difficult to do . |
| 26 | The government and the banks are considering setting up a national data system of business angels , it would probably have to be government funded . |
| 27 | When she nodded , he went on , ‘ It would probably have been better if we had discussed it right at the beginning , and certainly when we realised we were becoming attracted to each other . ’ |
| 28 | Home Office pathologist Dr Donald Wayte , of Bangor , told the court yesterday that it would probably have been impossible to get so much material into Mrs McMullen 's mouth if she had been conscious , as she would have been fighting for her life . |
| 29 | In fact , any other time it would probably have terrified her , now she rather welcomed it as a sign that life was normal after all . |
| 30 | Well I do n't know it would probably have to be May or June I think erm |