Example sentences of "and [is] probably " in BNC.

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1 This is again a comprehensive and thoroughly investigated article and is probably the first extended account of Situationist cinema in English .
2 It is strong and not damaging and is probably the one absolutely essential piece of equipment you need above all others .
3 Most opposition to Big Leap may come from the Henry Cecil-trained top-weight Sharp Prince , who won nicely on his debut at Chepstow in October and is probably open to improvement .
4 Full control of potentially contaminating factors was not sought , and is probably not feasible .
5 The absorbed varieties , which are now rare , included the red-and-white colour-sided East Finnish ( Itä-Suomalainen Karja , or ISK ) , the red West Finnish ( Länsi-Suomalainen Karja , or LSK ) , which contributed as well to the creation of the Estonian Native in the USSR , and the white colour-pointed North Finnish ( Pohjois-Suomalainen Karja , or PSK ) , which was similar to the Swedish Mountain and is probably now extinct .
6 Evidence for increased diastolic hypertension is less strong and is probably related to renal dysfunction .
7 Although Barraclough 's ( 1972 ) suggestion that as many as a fifth of the suicides in a series he studied might have been prevented by the wider use of lithium would be difficult to substantiate and is probably an overestimate , the fact that the lives of as many as 16 per cent of patients with manic-depressive illness may end in suicide ( Pitts and Winokur 1964 ) suggests that lithium is likely to have an important role in the prevention of suicide in some patients .
8 Some through passage also occurs and is probably regular , particularly in October and November , but the extent of such movements has not been determined accurately .
9 Indeed , this sort of habitat covers an estimated 400 000 hectares in England and Wales , and is probably increasing .
10 In Amblyseius , diapause takes the form of a temporary blockage of reproduction and is probably a device for preventing breeding in adverse conditions .
11 The incorporation of the Convention into the domestic law of the United Kingdom has been a matter of debate for some years now and is probably not far off .
12 Often the enquirer is asking me about something else entirely and is probably surprised to get a reply warning of impending doom and destruction !
13 A subspecies comes from Hawaii , and is probably the one pictured .
14 The Sovereign sits alongside the Swedish-made Levin Goliath as a well-made , medium-priced acoustic which plays well , sounds okay and is probably worth about £150 .
15 This is at the north-west of the island and is probably the furthest village from Funchal .
16 The Adoration of the Magi is sixteenth-century oil on wood and is probably attributable to the Portuguese master Grão Vasco .
17 Kenneth is still poring over his books , looking for a cure , and is probably in the garden shed at this very moment , brewing rhubarb leaves and goat manure in an attempt to find one .
18 This does n't try to be a smart book , and is probably the last where Clairmont will be Claire , but it is quite unpatronising .
19 Mountaineers are especially susceptible : Eric Shipton wrote two ; Chris Bonington has already published three volumes of his , as well as a pictorial reprise , and is probably this very moment rapturously engaged on volume four .
20 Moyer 's Buttress is no exception and is probably the finest climb on the crag , tackling a feature which in days of yore would no doubt have been referred to as a bastion .
21 Fixing mirrors to ceilings requires some skill and knowledge , and is probably best left to a glazier .
22 ‘ C ’ sajica reaches 4″ or so and is probably the largest species you could keep successfully in that tank and then if you have just a pair of them and nothing else .
23 Not only is it very much easier to culture than brine shrimp , but it also much cheaper and is probably more nutritious as well .
24 The TM502 is a venerable design and is probably about 10 years old .
25 Organised by season , this book marks an important step in the development of horticulture in the late 1500s and is probably the only surviving pictorial record of an important garden of that period ( est. £300–500,000 ; $520–860,000 ) .
26 For example , in the mid-1960s less than a third of the students at university were girls ; that figure has now risen to over 40 per cent and is probably still rising ( Blackstone , 1983 ) .
27 Competition climbing is laughable in this country , and is probably a dead duck anyway .
28 The terrace garden still exists and is probably little changed since Tennyson 's time .
29 This system is finely attuned to new ventures in marketing and distribution , and is probably quite similar to the major South Asian forms of production which had previously established the foundations for large-scale international trade , in the absence of industrial machinery ; although , in that case , divisions in the production process , which allowed for control by merchants and middlemen , were more closely articulated by social divisions such as caste and purdah .
30 It was described in a Greek herbal written in the third century B.C. and is probably a native of the eastern Mediterranean area , though it is now so widespread it is difficult to be certain of its origin .
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