Example sentences of "which probably " in BNC.
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| 1 | My becoming homeless was not a result of my dropping out of a system which probably would have supported me until retirement age ; it was the result of a chain of events which took place much , much later . |
| 2 | The cemetery , which probably contains at least 300 Dark Age graves , may have been used by the inhabitants of a statelet possibly known as the Barringas - ‘ the people of Barra ’ . |
| 3 | Now it has emerged that Soviet tanks are being fitted with two or three layers of the reactive armour , which probably renders the tandem warhead ineffective . |
| 4 | Which probably had something to do with the way that what we sold would reappear slightly redone in Acme six months later . |
| 5 | ( And it was that lack of hits which probably helped bring about the suicides . ) |
| 6 | It could be argued that on occasions I 've taken on things which probably I have n't done as well out of financially as I might have done if I 'd done something else . |
| 7 | The skull has recently been identified as the fossilized cranium of a white woman , at least 1,500 years old , which probably came from the burial ground on Pilsden Pen . |
| 8 | Their river habitat east of Quebec city has become a chemical soup of pollutants which probably causes a failure of their immune system or leads to a variety of other diseases such as bladder and other cancers , hepatitis , and perforated ulcers . |
| 9 | This was the kind of diversification Daimler should have pursued all along , rather than chasing grandiose ‘ synergies ’ which probably do not exist . |
| 10 | The little blue flower , ‘ robin-run-in-the-hedge ’ , which probably looked like violet on the first , distant glance , is ground ivy . |
| 11 | It was only after a couple of weeks that Minyip deigned to eat alfalfa — which probably saved the lives of both horses . |
| 12 | ‘ Reagan 's talking quite a lot about human rights , which probably suits Gorbachev . ’ |
| 13 | Much later , the Europeans brought cats to Australia ( which probably jumped ship in the seventeenth century ) , and then foxes and rabbits ( for sport ) in the nineteenth century — and these have out-competed and preyed upon a whole host of marsupials . |
| 14 | Norwegian Rottweilers are soundly built , of good size and stable temperament , which probably explains why they are in such great demand not only as family companions but working dogs . |
| 15 | The eruption which probably had the most far reaching effect on civilization was that of Santorin ( Thera ) in the Aegean , in about 1470 B.C. This abruptly extinguished the highly-developed Minoan culture centred on Crete , and , because the eruption caused the submergence beneath the sea of a large part of the island of Santorin , it may have given rise to the age-old legends of Atlantis , the ‘ lost ’ or ‘ drowned ’ continent . |
| 16 | To develop his system , the idea for which probably came to him during a passing involvement with cable trams , Holroyd Smith built three experimental miniature lines in Halifax during 1883–4 . |
| 17 | A few years earlier the reddish-yellow Sheeted Somerset , which probably became extinct before 1890 , had been described as a mainly polled breed remarkable for nothing except its coat pattern : the belted pattern became popular among those who liked decorative livestock in their parks . |
| 18 | This French breed , which produces high-fat milk , was probably not distinguished from other breeds of northwest France until the nineteenth century , including the Contentin type ( later absorbed by the Normandy breed ) , which probably also came to the islands , and the now-extinct brindled Isigny draught breed of Normandy , which was also a famous butter-maker but much larger than the Léon and with horns which curved forward and inward rather than outward and backward . |
| 19 | Organic material promotes this redox reaction , which probably accounts for the presence of uraninite in the black organic-rich shales of Sweden . |
| 20 | During one excursion which probably occurred at this time Tom Poole took his friends to Walford 's Gibbet on the Quantock slopes between Holford and Stowey , and there recounted John Walford 's tragic history . |
| 21 | There was a good deal of schoolboy teasing and even bullying which probably had its origins in sex . |
| 22 | The dense tubular system which probably represents residual smooth endoplasmic reticulum is discrete from the open canalicular system ( Behnke , 1970 ) but forms very close relationships with it in certain areas of the cytoplasm ( White , 1972 ) . |
| 23 | For example , at Southmead Health Authority — one of the original Management Budgeting demonstration districts — the approach was to ask to each of the participating consultants to define the 10 or 12 case types which probably made up 80 to 90 per cent of their regular workload . |
| 24 | I have therefore grouped them on a broad geological basis : sand , chalk , clay , and the gravels and loams of the coastal plain which probably also enjoys a modest climatic advantage over the rest of the county . |
| 25 | Nearly all records are for the period November to March , but there is one October record ( 1885 , Shoreham ) , and a few for April , May and June which probably refer to pricked birds or escapes from collections . |
| 26 | Presumably , arthropod guests that share a fungal parasite with the ants have a strong biochemical resemblance to their hosts , which probably indicates a long-standing association . |
| 27 | It can come from dust between the stars , but distant quasars and other active galaxies produce powerful infrared emission from their cores , which probably contain gas swirling round a massive black hole . |
| 28 | These are known as organic chemicals — which probably sounds like a contradiction in terms to anyone who buys ‘ organic ’ vegetables ! |
| 29 | But there is a further problem of censorship in libraries , particularly in public libraries , which probably was not evident in the past . |
| 30 | One media independent says : ‘ The poster advertising seemed more than it was because awareness was raised by the posters ’ exposure in the press and on TV , which probably doubled the effective budget . ’ |