Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] probably [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gallery on this house on Church Hill was probably part of larger farm buildings facing the meadows . |
| 2 | My own view is that the proper applicant was probably Winchester rather than the applicant personally , but I regard this as a technicality . |
| 3 | The most important figure was probably Erica Brausen who started showing Giacommetti , bacon etc . |
| 4 | The nearest concepts to it in early modern England were probably sodomy and buggery . |
| 5 | These early nautiloids were probably predators also , and if this were so they may have been the first rapidly moving , efficient hunters in the sea . |
| 6 | From its size the experts think your pen was probably part of a child 's set . |
| 7 | Rey was probably heir to a long tradition in the matter of prompting : no prompt-box can be seen in the illustrations from the 1747 Palais-Royal performance ( illus.s ) or the 1745 Versailles performance ( illus.3 ) . |
| 8 | Although pure sound recording had started in America , the moving picture was probably America 's greatest contribution to world culture . |
| 9 | Men with £3 — £4 were probably smallholders , but , although £2 attracted the same rate of tax , men at this level tended to overlap with those beneath , their assessments being reduced to £1 on some occasions . |
| 10 | The double-axe was probably potnia 's symbol , and possibly the pillar and the snake were her symbols too . |
| 11 | The world record for economic inflation was probably Germany after the First World War , where the price of a loaf of bread went from under a mark to millions of marks in a few months . |
| 12 | Theunis , whose second name was probably Carel or Carl , had a wife , Maria Dorothea , whose maiden name was Rubenden , but little is known about either of them . |
| 13 | In fact , we did go down there for a week to explore the possibilities , and I admitted that it was n't what it was and that the rosy glow that still suffused me at the very name was probably nostalgia for my touring days , when it was the most prestigious of all the dates . |
| 14 | The majority of the Chelt mills were probably corn mills . |
| 15 | Rudd 's promotions were probably attempts to remunerate a man who was of more value to the Tudor state as a cartographer than as a cleric . |
| 16 | His father was probably steward of the king of Scotland as earl of Northampton , and so a baron of some standing , but not a tenant-in-chief ; Gilbert 's brother or nephew rose by marriage into this rank . |
| 17 | For much of that period the area was probably part of one of many statelets beyond the western edge of the early kingdom of East Anglia . |
| 18 | The next tagos was probably Echekratidas of Pharsalos ( see Thuc. i. 111 ) . |
| 19 | The finest two batsmen to spring from Durham were probably A.E . |
| 20 | Gerry was probably Mr Head 's most effective signing for Palace over our four years in the top flight 1969–73 . |
| 21 | He was probably born before 1130 , and if so , the place of his birth was probably London , with which he also had close associations in the last twenty years of his life . |
| 22 | In the early 1960s the market 's gross size was probably $20bil . |
| 23 | His ancestors were probably Normans who came over . |
| 24 | Many of the early mammals were probably insect eaters , as are many of the primitive representatives of the group today . |
| 25 | The king from Asia was probably Hannibal , still living in Asia , if not Antiochus III himself . |
| 26 | Most householders were probably employees rather than employers , men who worked as journeymen or casual labourers . |
| 27 | These cells were probably lymphocytes , as similar cells in serial sections were found to be CD3+ , CD25+ . |
| 28 | Others were exposed as impersonators — neptunium turned out to be niobium , for example , while davyum was probably rhenium . |
| 29 | Ruskin 's Fors Clavigera was probably Mackmurdo 's greatest single inspiration , and he modelled his first pamphlet , The Immorality of Lending for Payment of Interest or of any Usurious Gain ( 1878 ) , on Unto this Last ( 1862 ) . |
| 30 | Despite a good deal of organized opposition and intrigue from Mozart 's enemies in court circles , of whom the ringleader was probably Antonio Salieri , Figaro was first performed in the Burgtheater on 1 May , 1786 . |