Example sentences of "we would probably " in BNC.

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1 Out of all the items in our list we would probably tick the apples , potatoes , carrots , onions , cod and the frozen peas and beans .
2 Thank goodness we were never occupied — not so much because of what the occupiers might have done to us , but because of what we would probably have done to each other .
3 But we would probably sell them the name if they come up with a reasonable offer . ’
4 We would probably have been fleeced by some estate agents who would have smelled our lack of knowledge of the market a mile off .
5 But the ‘ ordinary ’ people in this case would be the members of the club itself , and we would probably be thinking of testing our hypotheses by interviewing a sample of the club members .
6 ‘ Then we would probably have a mandatory defence , which we would not duck , and then come back for a third defence against Bruno . ’
7 Indeed , if he were to accede to our request , we would probably become so alarmed by the manifestations of his power that you would n't see most of us for dust !
8 We would probably be more effective in combating crime if we could train reformed otaku .
9 With a squad of 22 to 24 , we would probably have won six and lost one and drawn one of our eight matches .
10 Curiously , when you ask them how they would react to deletion of the procedure of inviting criticism of their draft reports from the regulations , their response is along the lines of : ‘ If we were not required to do it we would probably carry out a similar course of action unofficially in order to ensure that we had not missed an important point . ’
11 If we were asked to offer a definition , we would probably suggest something along the lines of ‘ the use of physical force against an unwilling party ’ .
12 We need to shift to the procedure that we would probably have and a tell me if I 'm wrong I thought there was a sort of general agreement without it being sort of firmly agreed that we were going to go for a format of subject specific reports still coming to form tutor who would complete some sort of general report , is that
13 If you measure the atmospheric rise in carbon dioxide due to fossil fuel burning , you 'll see that it 's only about one half of that predicted if all of the coal and oil that had been burnt since the industrial revolution had gone into the atmosphere , we would probably have er an increase in C O two double what we can actually measure .
14 If we did n't have them we would probably have dictatorship which would be even worse !
15 I myself felt , however , that we would probably run our greatest risk in Bahdu .
16 If we ca n't see a way to market it effectively then we would probably decide not to take it on .
17 We would probably expect the dispersion in Β to be considerably larger than in N ; on the other hand , this may be offset by its lower degree of serial correlation .
18 On balance , we would probably recommend the ABN in preference to the Financial Times .
19 Today , benefiting from psychoanalytic insights , we would probably say that man was distinguishable from the beasts by virtue of his possession of a highly evolved and differentiated ego , and still more by his acquisition of the superego .
20 If we were to decriminalize drug taking we would probably go a long way down the road to solving the problem .
21 has been taken into account or not and we , w we would probably end up giving you a different answer but erm I mean w we I do n't want to go back to that I , I 'll leave that , I 'll leave that , I 'll
22 ‘ We did not complete it because we would probably have faded out and died within a week .
23 It is an unlikely occurrence but it could happen and we would feel concerned if it did ; indeed , we would probably be unhappy with any sample where the sex ratio differed greatly from that of the whole school .
24 This year we 've restricted it to primary , partly because we felt that 's where the enthusiasm was , and partly , if people wo n't mind me saying so , to keep out the computer science specialists — we felt that , you know , we did n't want a club for boffins or for the experts , we wanted a club and we felt that if we started at the primary end , where there was n't a lot of expertise , we would probably be of more use .
25 First of all , as I say , we only deal through motor traders anyway , and there is this liability that the motor trade have anyway , and obviously if if something like that has happened it 's going to occur fairly rapidly , but certainly within three months or three thousand miles , and obviously the owner of the vehicle has a redress to the dealer and obviously if there 's one of our policies on it we would probably accept liability on that , although I ca n't say for definite .
26 Most of us would probably start off growing pelargoniums in a soilless compost but Hazel reports that they 're actually much easier to grow well in a loam-based compost .
27 But most of us would probably eschew the ostentatious and eccentric , and settle for an honest and straightforward run of bindings that have a plain tale to tell of their place and time .
28 Most of us would probably panic , think catastrophic thoughts , breathe rapidly , run away to a safe place , call out the doctor , and make a will .
29 If they were , say , a million times more common than this , then the nearest black hole to us would probably be at a distance of about a thousand million kilometers , or about as far away as Pluto , the farthest known planet .
30 But most of us would probably say that the Edwardian Era ended with the bullets that Gavrilo Princip fired into the body of Arch-duke Ferdinand on the 28th June 1914 .
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