Example sentences of "he [is] probably " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is probably a murderer himself ; the lightmindedness of his retrospective half-confirmations and half-denials is oddly disgusting ; and for him killing people is no more doing something than sleeping with little girls or setting off for the North Pole . |
| 2 | The original 260,000 employees have since been whittled down to 50,000 and Sir Monty is a little resentful that he is probably most remembered for setting that radical rundown in motion . |
| 3 | He is probably also right when he says that he is only seen as a Spanish artist because his interest lies in Spanish art , instead of in French art ‘ like everyone else' : in other words , within the accepted categories there is no room for a Mexican who is interested in Spanish art . ' |
| 4 | ‘ But he is probably safer now than he will be in 10 years ’ time . |
| 5 | He is probably the most complete player I have ever seen and certainly the best front-row forward in the world . |
| 6 | He is probably rich enough , with or without San Miguel , to make a serious bid for the presidency . |
| 7 | I hope he will sign a new contract because I believe he is probably the best target man in Britain . |
| 8 | We have clear descriptions of Charles from his chroniclers and contemporaries ; he is probably the first powerful figure to emerge from the Dark Ages as a completely documented ruler . |
| 9 | He is probably correct , however , in identifying the experience of taking possession as a factor in that development . |
| 10 | He is probably widely remembered today not for his important contributions to number theory , but as the teacher of Albert Einstein and the man who showed how the theory of relativity could be interpreted as the geometry of four-dimensional spacetime . |
| 11 | In fact he is probably feeling fresher and sharper now , hungrier to resume his England career than for some time . |
| 12 | He is probably the only adopted English child in these islands . |
| 13 | What is increasingly important to McEnroe , now that he is probably in his final year , in the picture he will leave in everyone 's mind . |
| 14 | He is probably most famous for his fighter designs during World War Two although personally he was much more interested in small sporting types of which he designed quite a number over the years . |
| 15 | And yet , over the past few years , he is probably regarded in the Caribbean as the West Indies bowler able to extract more movement off the pitch than any other and , certainly , during last summer 's Test series against England , he and Ambrose were the leaders in the ‘ unplayable delivery ’ department . |
| 16 | He is probably right , too , in thinking that she would be far better known in art historical terms had she stayed in France , where her daring move into abstraction was more appreciated , than returning dutifully to the provincial inertia of Dublin . |
| 17 | And according to The Boy Nigel down in the yard , he is probably right . |
| 18 | He is probably the best example of a belief often expressed about the presidency — that the man holding the office grows in stature to fit the highest position in the nation . |
| 19 | He is probably downstairs , knocking back a stiff gin and tonic before submitting himself to the milder offering of champagne . |
| 20 | He is probably to be identified with the ‘ patrician ’ ( the term signifies an individual of very high standing indeed ) called Moll to whom King Eadberht and Archbishop Ecgberht gave the monasteries of Stonegrave and Coxwold in Yorkshire , seized by them from Moll 's brother , Abbot Forthred , for which action Pope Paul I reproved them . |
| 21 | In the imperfect world , where things get misunderstood , a woman has to realise that when she returns from the kitchen with a toasted sandwich and her man barks , ‘ I said cheese and tomato , not just cheese ! ’ he is probably not so much worried about his stomach as about her hearing . |
| 22 | He is probably the John Archer who graduated MA from Magdalene College , Cambridge , in 1626 . |
| 23 | He is probably identifiable as the ‘ John Cyfrewas ’ of the Dominican community in Guildford who was ordained acolyte at Farnham on 19 May 1380 by William of Wykeham , bishop of Winchester [ q.v. ] ; and as the ‘ Johannes Sifirwas , brother of the Order of Preachers ’ to whom the widow Joan Elveden , from Muchelney ( Somerset ) , bequeathed ‘ one pair of jet praying-beads ’ in her will dated 4 September 1421 . |
| 24 | He is probably the namesake ‘ of the king 's household ’ who entered Lincoln 's Inn in 1475 . |
| 25 | He is probably going to the château . |
| 26 | Whatever the hon. Gentleman 's position on nuclear weapons — like many Opposition Back Benchers , he is probably totally against them — he will agree that if we are to have them , they should operate safely . |
| 27 | The hon. Member for Clackmannan ( Mr. O'Neill ) may smile ; he is probably one of those who encouraged the cynical use of the community charge and never had a good word to say for it . |
| 28 | And watching Gordon Wilson 's maiden speech to the Dublin Senate , one reflected that he is probably the only man in Ulster who is able to announce his intention to talk to the IRA and who no-one would dare to denounce . |
| 29 | ‘ He is probably more impressed by the latter , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 30 | But I tend to think he is probably fitter than a lot of the other players . |