Example sentences of "be probably [adv] [adj] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Viewed from close up he showed absolutely no sign of being controlled by an extraterrestrial intelligence.The guys from Tellenor were probably so good that they had over-reached themselves and programmed free will into him . |
| 2 | It grew up as a series of local conventions , through people responding to one another 's behaviour ; the individual soldiers were probably hardly aware that the growing up was going on . |
| 3 | It is probably not coincidental that there exists these two areas of human interest , namely , the areas of religion on the one hand and that of the healing power of the mind on the other , where there is a similar absence of that clear-cut knowledge or faith the attainment of which is so sought after . |
| 4 | Given this , it is probably not surprising that even where qualifications were stipulated , the requirement was not rigidly enforced . |
| 5 | It is probably not accidental that the most famous and widely discussed paranoiac of modern psychiatric literature , Schreber , had a father who seems to have approximated rather closely to the divine monarchs of earlier times and certainly practised a regime of child-rearing which was notable not only for its authoritarianism but also for its central concern for the welfare of the child , who was to be protected from harmful influences , bad habits and incorrect posture by rigidly enforced and total parental control , which even included applying iron and leather braces and restraints to the child 's body . |
| 6 | Of course , this view is based on a foolish misapprehension ; but it is probably nevertheless true that a mistaken view of psychoanalysis , and a misuse of its teachings , has contributed in no small part to our present social predicament . |
| 7 | If there is a mortgage granted in the husband 's favour on the property , it is probably best either that the policy be in the names of the husband and wife , or ( more properly ) in the wife 's sole name , but with the husband 's interest as mortgagee noted thereon . |
| 8 | Social circumstances have changed since 1975 , but it is probably still true that many women are out of the employment market in their 20s and early 30s due to family commitments so that if the facts happened again , the result may well be the same . |
| 9 | It is probably quite likely that the foreigners were honest and hard working , keeping themselves much to themselves but it was clearly a tinder-box situation with the tiniest spark capable of leading to a conflagration . |
| 10 | It is probably highly unlikely that a firm which earns , say , 20 per cent from one productive opportunity can earn the same return from all other productive opportunities . |
| 11 | He was probably also aware that it was to be his last on any comparable scale . |
| 12 | Since English people are also stereotyped in Ulster in various ( usually unfavourable ) ways , it was probably equally important that my mixed , but mainly Scottish , accent made it extremely difficult for subjects to fit me into any clear popular category . |