Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] is probable [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Amis and Eliot can be considered seasoned disapprovers , and it is probable that Amis shares the other writer 's distaste for the biographical critic , whose activities may be responsibly conducted , and are generally acknowledged to have been successful at times , but have often been reckoned to fail . |
| 2 | No golf at all was reported in 1916 and it is probable that next to nothing was played . |
| 3 | Gonorrhoea is not a modern disease , and it is probable that the reference in Leviticus , Chapter 15 , to an ‘ issue out of flesh ’ is to gonococcal urethritis . |
| 4 | Their father 's name was Theunis Krankoor , and it is probable that either he or his father was the first person to take that name too . |
| 5 | And it is probable that he then left them again , taking his believing wife with him , and lived by the gospel . |
| 6 | An MC200 pilot claimed one Hurricane damaged , and it is probable that it was these fighters , rather than Bf109s , which attacked Laubscher and/or Pain subsequent to their fight with the biplanes . |
| 7 | There is also already evidence that healthier lifestyles at early ages — including , in particular , abstention from smoking , a reduction in alcohol consumption , more controlled eating , and regular exercise — are now being adopted , and it is probable that they will improve health at a later stage for the cohorts which adopt them . |
| 8 | The second of the two brothers also died soon after the events I have described , and it is probable that Gunhilda then returned to Wilton , for she was later remembered there with honour . |
| 9 | Other evidence , such as the votive faience robes mentioned earlier , tells us that elaborate dresses were offered to deities and it is probable that statues of deities were clothed in these . |
| 10 | However , the baby is equipped with mechanisms which allow it to respond to the physical difficulties of birth — the breathing response etc. — and it is probable that mechanisms also exist to cope with the circumstances of being thrust into a new world . |
| 11 | For example , the pressures on nomadic and tribal peoples to adopt a more settled way of life are increasing , and it is probable that a number of these groups may either cease , or radically alter , their rug-making traditions in the foreseeable future . |
| 12 | For long processing times this will be too low a figure , but it will then be part of run times markedly higher as a result of overall long processing times and it is probable that overflow records will not cause much extra delay . |
| 13 | Bronze Age tagged and barbed arrow heads have been found in at least eight places widely distributed over the island and three more of the leaf shape , and it is probable that others found have not been reported . |
| 14 | It is likely , however , that the coming together of the cold and the blackthorn blossom is one of accident ; and it is probable that the belief is another vestige of the primitive form of reasoning displayed in homoeopathic or imitative magic . |
| 15 | Over 800 modules are available to students and it is probable that all 3,000 students registered have unique programmes of study . |
| 16 | A look at the estate map of 1634 gives a picture of the village as it was then , and it is probable that this had n't changed much from the previous centuries . |
| 17 | The curriculum of the college centred on Muslim jurisprudence and Quranic studies , but Delhi had a reputation for astronomy and medicine and it is probable that these were also taught at the Hauz Khas . |
| 18 | There is no doubt that this bone yields the most reliable sexing information of all , and it is probable that between 90 per cent and 95 per cent accuracy in determination can be achieved ( Krogman , 1946 ; Washburn , 1948 ; Genoves , 1959 ) . |
| 19 | Think of any of them and it is probable that they will be static , caught like a photograph in a position that somehow typifies them . |
| 20 | Bacterial synthesis of protein from industrial residues or organic wastes such as wood pulp is under investigation and it is probable that viable processes will be developed . |
| 21 | The amine and carboxyl linkages of phenylalanine residues are susceptible to attack by pepsin and it is probable that the action of pepsin , either in vivo or during the preparation of Frazer 's frunction III , cleaves the dodecapeptide . |
| 22 | The requirement that the defects be disclosed to the buyer is one of degree and it is probable that some positive act of drawing attention seems to be required . |
| 23 | It is not clear who these other aliens were — some were probably Italians-but it is probable that a substantial proportion of them were engaged in trade with Gascony or other French lands . |
| 24 | More than 60 stitches have now been inserted in fragile brows but it is probable that Biggs will never recover from the beating he took from Tyson . |
| 25 | Certainly Eliot 's studies in Sanskrit and Pali at Harvard under Lanman and Woods had given him a thorough knowledge of Indian thought , but it is probable that Kipling 's version of metempsychosis had at least an equally important effect . |
| 26 | Polls in medium or small communities were not often violent ; but it is probable that the same tensions were present as in Ajdabiya , and that they were exacerbated by the absence of campaign , by the necessity of choosing among ideologically undifferentiated candidates , and by the prolonged confrontation of voters in a confined space . |
| 27 | Why Stirling and Maclean were invited remains a bit of a mystery , but it is probable that Randolph had mentioned them to his father . |
| 28 | The rate of growth of agricultural output in the Meiji period is subject to considerable dispute , but it is probable that a rate of around 1.8 per cent annual growth in output was maintained through to the early 1900s at least , far outstripping the rate of population growth in the same period . |
| 29 | He later became a freeman of the Salters ' Company , like his father , but it is probable that his chief occupation was as a teacher of mathematics and accounting . |
| 30 | , Sir William ( 1745–1816 ) , vice-admiral , had obscure origins : neither his place of birth nor his parents are mentioned in the Naval Chronicle 's report of his death , but it is probable that he went early to sea , since on joining the Dolphin on 8 July 1766 he was rated able . |