Example sentences of "[noun] were probably [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nearest concepts to it in early modern England were probably sodomy and buggery . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The majority of the Chelt mills were probably corn mills . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The finest two batsmen to spring from Durham were probably A.E . |
| 7 | His ancestors were probably Normans who came over . |
| 8 | Many of the early mammals were probably insect eaters , as are many of the primitive representatives of the group today . |
| 9 | Most householders were probably employees rather than employers , men who worked as journeymen or casual labourers . |
| 10 | These cells were probably lymphocytes , as similar cells in serial sections were found to be CD3+ , CD25+ . |