Example sentences of "probably [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I , I , probably only a youngster then , well I was about twenty six or seven , but er , I shall never forget her fingers were like claws she could n't move them they 'd sort of set |
| 2 | It was probably only a rabbit , but it had still unnerved her slightly , and she pulled off the drive and parked on the grass . |
| 3 | Probably only a minority of these carried the commitment through into adulthood , though as Gilroy writes ( 1987 : 187 ) , " by looking at the broad and diverse use to which the language and symbols of Rastafari have been put , it is possible to conceive it as a movement in which the lines dividing different levels of commitment are necessarily flexible " . |
| 4 | I also suspect that all the major players will shortly move to 400dpi as their base resolution , it 's probably only a question of waiting for the engine manufacturers to get production rolling for the new CCITT Group IV facsimile standard and then taking the excess . |
| 5 | As things stand , it is probably only a matter of time before the site finds itself in the hands of property speculators , a sad fate for what was one of the largest mills on the Painswick Stream . |
| 6 | It 's probably just a case of a couple of screws to take the cover off . |
| 7 | ‘ Probably just a skirmish , ma'am . ’ |
| 8 | I think that 's probably just a bit bald , is n't it . |
| 9 | Track one is a growling , clapping disco song with a peace message , but far better to my ears are ‘ Klangers ’ , a similar groove which sounds like it has in fact got The Klangers on it although it 's probably just a synth , and ‘ The Horns Of Jerricurl ’ ( geddit ? ) which unfolds the depths of their groove and lays bare their sense of humour . |
| 10 | ‘ Probably just a coincidence , ’ Tweed remarked , ‘ as you suggested . ’ |
| 11 | Probably just a coincidence — Manescu 's presence in London at that time . ’ |
| 12 | It 's probably just a holiday . |
| 13 | It 's probably just a label devised by some journalists to make their job easier . ’ |
| 14 | Of course , he was probably just a smoothie , so suave and slick that he could keep about three million women on the line at once . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's probably just a phase we 're going through . ’ |
| 16 | During my annual medical check-up in 1987 , Dr Dingle discovered a blood irregularity , but as I was fighting fit he said it was probably just a virus and I was to forget about it during my impending holiday and to see him on my return for a second blood test . |
| 17 | ‘ It was probably just an upswing in the economy , ’ she snapped angrily , incensed at the way he 'd succeeded in changing the subject . |
| 18 | It is probably just an elaboration of the historical secession of Cambridge students to Northampton in 1261 . |
| 19 | The whole is complicated by the fact that , by virtue of section 6(3) , the prosecutor has to prove a degree of mens rea that was probably not a requirement of the previous law . |
| 20 | It is probably not a coincidence that , where the song was recorded , a trimphone is installed in a neighbouring house . |
| 21 | He says I suspect it 's a good idea in a romantic idealist world — it 's probably not a realist option — I mean people do move about in cars nowadays . |
| 22 | The title of ‘ master ’ , repeatedly applied to Hugo in the Bury Deeds of the Sacrists implies that he was probably not a monk , but a secular artist hired by the abbey . |
| 23 | Probably not a lot these days , but at the start , we 're told , it stood for Two Guys and a VAX — has anyone signed for the movie rights yet ? |
| 24 | Because the recording system has remained unchanged throughout the study period , any changes in the data are probably not a result of errors in registration . |
| 25 | On the evidence of his writings , which is all that we have , Warr had a classical education and some experience of litigation , but he was probably not a lawyer . |
| 26 | In the meantime , the company is thinking about clustering AS/400s , perhaps via the new fibre adaptor , so that multiple machines can work co-operatively — although ‘ clustering ’ is probably not a term that IBM will use , says Haines wryly . |
| 27 | FOOTBALL is probably not a F subject Darlingtonians F would care to be reminded of at this stage in a trying season . |
| 28 | It is probably not an exaggeration to say that far more work has been published on the first type of task than on the second . |
| 29 | He was probably already a clerk of Gilbert de Preston [ q.v. ] , the chief justice of that court , and his service to Preston may go back to at least 1265 . |
| 30 | A young lad , a boy ; probably still an adolescent and little for his age at that . |