Example sentences of "be presumably [conj] " in BNC.

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1 It seems that problems of proof loom large here : there is a fear that the unscrupulous would manipulate any law permitting ‘ mercy killings ’ , and the argument is presumably that this would put at risk more unwilling parties than a law allowing euthanasia would benefit willing parties .
2 The rationale for UDCs is presumably that the scale of urban decline necessitates the creation of independent , centrally-appointed development agencies that are free from the apparent constraints of local government .
3 The explanation for this effect is presumably that the very early events in the cascade of memory formation involve electrical activity within the neurons and that the immediate shock disrupts this process ; by the time the delayed shock is given , however , the cascade is already past this phase , and is no longer vulnerable .
4 This is presumably because it allows you to explore the knowledge contained therein .
5 It is presumably because of this innate variability of habitat that there are so many species of organism on land : probably anything between 10 and 70 or more million , compared with maybe only a few hundred thousand in the oceans .
6 This is presumably because it is seldom possible to heal the breach that is usually created by fighting a legal battle .
7 This is presumably because of the prospect of subsequent litigation .
8 This is presumably because the intact epithelium acts as a barrier , preventing FGF-4 from reaching the underlying mesenchyme .
9 This is presumably because the task requires the same cognitive processors as shadowing — both tasks are speech-based .
10 This is presumably because the situation was not foreseen : the Code takes a very strict line on questioning after charge , a course of action only permitted in very narrowly defined circumstance under caution ( para .
11 Where there is a definite clicking , which was not found in our patients , the pain is presumably because of the movement of one rib upon another .
12 Claiming that although in the end ‘ their services had not been required ’ , he thought that nevertheless ‘ they would have expected and received some share of the proceeds ’ and it was presumably while Griffiths was being handed his share of the proceeds from Mr Ross 's safe that bits of brown paper and bits of white paper could have found their way into his overcoat pocket .
13 Life had to go on and music was presumably as important to ordinary people trying to survive in Berlin as it was for the people who crowded into the National Gallery in London to hear Myra Hess 's lunchtime recitals .
14 But she was presumably as capable of lying as Ursula .
15 The absence of reference to exchange rates and the EMS was presumably because there was nothing he could say without exciting renewed speculation or reopening divisions at the top of the Government .
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