Example sentences of "is probably [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As for his favourite grape variety , I think it is probably Tokay-Pinot Gris ; the wines from this subtle variety , less perfumed than Gewurztraminer , less grapey than Riesling or Muscat , can be heavy and overblown . |
| 32 | ( The apex of this Wasp aesthetic is probably George Bush relaxing at his weekend retreat in Maine . ) |
| 33 | This is probably number one . |
| 34 | Figs. 32–35 are all from the Acropolis of Athens , but the large 594 ( fig. 32 ) is probably East Greek work . |
| 35 | If , for example , you draw a distinction between two processes and your experiments keep on producing equivocal results , it is probably time to start thinking about the validity of the distinction . |
| 36 | Since the launch of our newsletter , ‘ The Botanics ’ , and the proposed issuing of a newsletter by the Friends of the RBGE , it is probably time to take stock of the total amount of news material which we are now producing , the staff effort involved , the uses to which the information is being put , and the efficiency with which each vehicle reaches its target readership . |
| 37 | In sum , it is probably time to overcome the politics of standardization — ‘ standards are good so long as you adopt mine ’ . |
| 38 | Interviewed on BBC Radio Four 's Today programme , Swales said : ‘ I would love to keep going , but I realise it is probably time for someone else to have a go . |
| 39 | The best known of the earlier endeavours is probably Project Sappho , which was carried out by the Science Policy Review Unit ( SPRU ) based at the University of Sussex . |
| 40 | I assume your Land Rover is a petrol and , if so , the problem is probably dirt in the carb which is being disturbed when driving off road and blocking a jet or the accelerator pump . |
| 41 | Apart from Book i , which incorporates The Ruined Cottage , a poem originally written in the 1790s , the best part of The Excursion is probably Book iv — ‘ Despondency Corrected ’ . |
| 42 | If it leaves a brown streak , then it is probably jet . |
| 43 | He added to many existing houses and castles , but his finest design is probably Stracathro House of 1828 with its noble Corinthian portico . |
| 44 | There has been no wholly satisfactory explanation of the aetiology , or primary causes , of homosexuality and it is probably multicausal . |
| 45 | I suppose it depends on the family but trying to envisage an average family , on thing that would immediately come to mind erm is probably security . |
| 46 | The pleasantest is probably Room Three , which has a High-Spanish mahogany bed in it . |
| 47 | If the first criticism we read is of Shakespeare ( an Othello casebook , typically ) , then the first contemporary poe we come across is probably Ted ( ‘ a black — /Back gull bent like an iron-bar slowly ’ ) Hughes . |
| 48 | IF MARTIN Pipe has a Gold Cup horse in his yard this season it is probably Rusch de Farges and there will be plenty of interest in this exciting young horse when he reappears in tomorrow 's A.F. Budge Gold Cup at Cheltenham . |
| 49 | IF MARTIN Pipe has a Gold Cup horse in his yard this season it is probably Rusch de Farges and there will be plenty of interest in this exciting young horse when he reappears in tomorrow 's A.F. Budge Gold Cup at Cheltenham . |
| 50 | Chief on the Labour side , discounting retreads , is probably Malcolm Wicks ( Croydon North West ) . |
| 51 | They picked the mauve one which is probably currants and the other one was raisin . |