Example sentences of "it is probable that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is probable that no one would be found to dissent from this proposition [ the fundamental importance of the teaching of the English language ] , in which the meaning of the word English is limited to the language itself as a means of communication . |
| 2 | It is probable that a maypole tradition had already been in existence for many years , if not centuries . |
| 3 | SSAP 18 requires that ‘ a material contingent loss should be accrued in financial statements where it is probable that a future event will confirm a loss which can be estimated with reasonable accuracy at the date on which the financial statements are approved ’ ( para 15 ) . |
| 4 | Our interpretation is that gas-phase HNO 3 has by that time been sequestered in the condensed phase by heterogeneous reactions on polar stratospheric cloud surfaces , forming nitric acid trihydrate as temperatures fell below 196K in winter It is probable that a substantial fraction of nitric acid has not only been lost from the gas phase , but also removed from the stratosphere by the growth and subsequent sedimentation of aerosol particles . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Provision is made for timing differences between the treatment of certain items for taxation and accounting purposes to the extent that it is probable that a liability or asset will crystallise . |
| 8 | Provision is made for timing differences between the treatment of certain items for taxation and accounting purposes , to the extent that it is probable that a liability or asset will crystallise . |
| 9 | Provision is made for timing differences between the treatment of certain items for taxation and accounting purposes , to the extent that it is probable that a liability or asset will crystallise . |
| 10 | It would be an exaggeration to say that every trade union member is now aware of the Commissioner , but it is probable that a disgruntled member 's first contact point would be able to pass on the relevant information . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | This does not mean that nothing was bought and sold in the independent sector , still less that the agricultural producers in it were self-sufficient , though it is probable that a rather high proportion of peasant agriculture was consumed on the peasant holding , or within the narrow limits of a local system of exchange , if only because the food demands of the small cities in so many areas could be supplied from within a radius of little more than one or two dozen miles . |
| 13 | It is probable that an individual ‘ s daily rhythms would not develop fully in the absence of a rhythmic environment . |
| 14 | Deferred tax should be accounted for to the extent that it is probable that an asset or liability will arise . |
| 15 | Deferred tax should be provided to the extent that it is probable that an asset or liability will arise . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is probable that the hook was initially a weapon , a spin-off from techniques of spearing , and gradually replaced the more primitive ‘ gorges ’ that relied on wedging rather than penetration . |
| 18 | ‘ While researchers can as yet give us no clear answers as to what this signifies ’ he said , ‘ it is probable that the brain will be affected by the chemical working environment as we nowadays know it in factories , office buildings with an unhealthy internal climate and polluted city air ’ . |
| 19 | It is probable that the jawless fish lived by grubbing in the sediment , or perhaps by filter feeding , possibly exploiting organic material derived from the plants that were taking to life on land at the same time . |
| 20 | It is probable that the soliloquy is based on a speech of Calisto in Rowe 's The Fair Penitent : |
| 21 | It is probable that the actual idea was the synthesis of discussions , but it was the one that Stirling adopted , starting a fruitful partnership with what became known to L Detachment as ‘ The Desert Taxi Service ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Previously it is probable that the state of the harvest decided the need for the additional month . |
| 24 | Had he never existed , it is probable that the Almoravid Moors , under their fanatical leader Yusuf , would have overrun a far greater area of central Spain — and perhaps prevented the gradual blurring of the two cultures which produced the later kingdoms of Moorish Spain and thereafter the great empire of the sixteenth century . |
| 25 | It is probable that the Dexter was developed from very small Kerries but the two breeds are now genetically distinct , though the longer-legged type of Dexter is potentially a useful gene reservoir for the rare Kerry . |
| 26 | If the responses are to be analysed without a great deal of trouble it is probable that the likely answers have been thought of beforehand and that certain likely response categories are already incorporated in the schedule itself . |
| 27 | As ozone depletion continues , and the ‘ holes ’ become bigger , it is probable that the two poles will be the worst affected regions because of their extreme , but favourable , weather conditions . |
| 28 | On this argument , it is probable that the aggregate supply of labour will have a positive slope as shown in Fig. 2.5 . |
| 29 | It is probable that the owl was after beetles or insects rather than live rabbits . |
| 30 | It is probable that the importance of what has been sometimes termed in India as ‘ famine crime ’ preceded British rule . |