Example sentences of "be probably [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half of them did n't turn up this morning — the ones who 're probably illegal immigrants and the ones who 're afraid of being blown up . |
| 2 | Police say they 're probably just youngsters . |
| 3 | There are probably other factors also responsible for the differences in permeability observed between patients with and without active disease . |
| 4 | No , there are probably other forms already existing on those colours , we presume we would have to take off those colours . |
| 5 | Undoubtedly each of these aims could be furthered by standing rules ; but their are probably other ways in which each of them could be achieved . |
| 6 | There are probably other examples , but these are the two that most spring to mind while contemplating William on his park bench . |
| 7 | A few ( mainly immature ) birds usually summer in Shetland , but as this party contains one or two individuals still in summer plumage , they are probably early arrivals — perhaps failed breeders — from the north . |
| 8 | Though most of the tenants are probably Labour voters , the local Liberals and Tories have supported the co-ops . |
| 9 | Possibly the earliest mention of what are probably Anglo-Saxon graves is that by the thirteenth-century chronicler Roger of Wendover in his Flores Historiarum where he describes the excavation by monks of St Albans in 1178 of ten human skeletons at Redbourne , Hertfordshire , believing some of them to be the bones of St Amphibalus ( Hewlett 1886 , 115 ) . |
| 10 | In this case , the two outer ( and brighter ) objects are probably hot gas clouds , heated up by young hot stars within them . |
| 11 | I mean , we 're not , erm , we 're just simplifying a very complex situation , and in fact , probably large numbers of genes are , are involved , and they 're , there are probably complex interactions between different sorts of altruism. kin altruism will certainly function within families for reasons that we 've just been looking at , but this will also be a fertile and erm , encouraging er , framework for sibling altruism . |
| 12 | Clearly , listening to a Robert Johnson record now , in Britain , is very different from dancing to him playing live in a black bar in Mississippi in 1936 ; and there are probably consequential differences in the music itself , too ( for example , Johnson would at the very least be constrained by the time-limits imposed by the record form — as all musicians , even to some extent on LPs , are ; thus , in some ways a Duke Ellington concert , in a ‘ bourgeois ’ concert hall , using written parts , might turn out a more ‘ oral ’ experience than the same piece encapsulated on a twelve-inch record ) . |
| 13 | As for Annibale 's organ-works , three toccatas and two ricercari were published in 1604 , long after he was dead ; they are probably late works . |
| 14 | Three sixth-century Anglo-Saxon brooches are probably stray finds . |
| 15 | Because , deep down , the majority of college lecturers are probably frustrated actors who enjoy performing before a live audience and who , therefore , want to keep the academic lecture as a means of boosting their flagging egos . |
| 16 | The curlew are probably local birds , but it is impossible to assess the status of the plovers while they are in winter plumage and have lost their black ‘ shirt front ’ . |
| 17 | We 're straying into what I think are probably local plan issues here really , |
| 18 | In the Hattie Jacques Cocktail Bar tonight , there are probably wry smiles on the faces of those who think they have seen the last of Leslie Bence rucking into the hurly-burly of football management . |
| 19 | It carries paternal antigens and is therefore a foreign body that ought to be attacked , and to obviate this there are probably blocking factors that prevent the paternal antigens from eliciting any reaction . |
| 20 | If you 're trying to combine both in your life the chances of your being hit by stress are probably higher-no matter how brilliantly you may have organized the family in your absence — and it is even more important to be able to deal with it . |
| 21 | As you are probably aware Chairman from the media that the British Steel National Association of British Steel Pensioners also have a problem with a surplus and are seeking legal advice as to what has taken place . |
| 22 | Palaeoenvironments were probably subtropical forests , strongly seasonal but most likely evergreen . |
| 23 | He said that the men we saw emerging from the rue de la Huchette into the place St Michel were probably superannuated rag-pickers . |
| 24 | Both Edmund Culpeper and the herbalist and astrologer Nicholas Culpeper [ q.v. ] were probably poor relations , descended from junior branches of the Culpeper or Colepeper family , a large , wealthy , landed family in Kent and Sussex . |
| 25 | There were probably invisible exports too : exports of technical skill and artistry , exports of medicine and magic . |
| 26 | There were probably other factors at work , which have since slipped automatically into place , but the needs expressed above were evident , being expressed by a range of people , and provided a justification for investing time and resource in trying to establish a partnership with industry . |
| 27 | There were probably other factors such as pressures caused by examinations and the competition for jobs . |
| 28 | If he 'd just been trying to clear the hell out , then it meant there were probably other FAKINTIL escapers at large who had n't been able to make it back to the mountains either . |
| 29 | These red giants were probably close neighbours of the infant sun and the ejected matter fell into the solar nebula . |
| 30 | For Luther only truth needed to be considered : Cranmer had to take into account the fact that the majority of the English population were probably still Catholics at heart . |