Example sentences of "[noun] was 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 From its size the experts think your pen was probably part of a child 's set .
5 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 ) .
6 Although pure sound recording had started in America , the moving picture was probably America 's greatest contribution to world culture .
7 The double-axe was probably potnia 's symbol , and possibly the pillar and the snake were her symbols too .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 The next tagos was probably Echekratidas of Pharsalos ( see Thuc. i. 111 ) .
14 Gerry was probably Mr Head 's most effective signing for Palace over our four years in the top flight 1969–73 .
15 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 .
16 In the early 1960s the market 's gross size was probably $20bil .
17 The king from Asia was probably Hannibal , still living in Asia , if not Antiochus III himself .
18 Others were exposed as impersonators — neptunium turned out to be niobium , for example , while davyum was probably rhenium .
19 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 ) .
20 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 .
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