Example sentences of "probably have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | The user probably has limited expertise and he may be working under various stress conditions . |
2 | Female choice probably has selected for many of the properties of courtship , such as the ‘ zigzag ’ display and red belly of male sticklebacks . |
3 | amalgamating , with another firm so the paper work probably has got lost So I |
4 | But he probably has got it . |
5 | and I think he probably has got that , but if you can come out with all those qualities and still be regarded as mister nice guy erm and at the moment he comes across as mister nice guy . |
6 | But the novelists had never heard of Marx and Engels — and if they had heard of them and their ideas , they would probably have recoiled in horror , perceiving the threat to their own privileged position . |
7 | But where other people would probably have covered the past in a coat of paint , the building 's new young occupants , the Stewarts have happily let it be and turned their decorative attentions to the interior instead . |
8 | ‘ You will probably have realised that , due to an administrative error in our payroll section , you have been given an extra day 's pay … instead of having a day 's pay deducted . ’ |
9 | If I had kept my wits and remained coherent I would probably have realised the manager 's job was third prize . |
10 | Zbo would probably have dated them 1919 , when Modigliani 's prices were beginning to rise . |
11 | ( ii ) The reader will probably have recognised N as having properties usually ascribed to the set of positive integers and I as being the principle of mathematical induction . |
12 | Once Phoebe had started playing chess regularly again she realised she could probably have become considerably better than him quite quickly , but she did not want that enough to work on it . |
13 | But the harder they pressed her , the more confused she would probably have become . |
14 | Other societies would probably have followed Abbey National with stock market flotations in the early 1990s but for the hostility of the Building Societies Commission and the housing market recession . |
15 | ‘ I wished you were — but they 'd probably have killed you . ’ |
16 | DAAN VAN DER MEULEN is best known in English-speaking circles as the first reliable explorer of the Wadi Hadhramaut in South Africa , a little-known , wild region , riven by tribal feuds , hardly explored , and fraught with danger for the outsider ; though he himself would probably have liked to be remembered equally for his services in the Dutch colonial administration in Sumatra . |
17 | All three directors would probably have liked ICI to narrow its broad span of interests to just two : a bulk commodities business and a value-added specialties business . |
18 | I would probably have liked to replace my boots and ski-jacket , but I still had n't much personal money . |
19 | Whether Beccaria would have been impressed with these developments is difficult to say : he would probably have liked the logic , practicality and apparent efficiency of the proposals of the situational theorists ; like them , he seemed to favour the prevention-is-better-than-cure approach . |
20 | The king would probably have liked to attract liberals on his own terms but all attempts at an amnesty after 1816 came to nothing . |
21 | ‘ I think he had a great superficial knowledge , but if you delved too deeply you would probably have felt that he did n't know so much . |
22 | ‘ If they are glass , or paste , or any part of them are , or any one of them , someone will probably have blown away Simon Cormack 's life . ’ |
23 | She said , ‘ I think you would probably have scolded me just as hard , Mr Langley , ’ and then she gathered up her handbag and rose to her feet . |
24 | If Austin Rover 's Leyland forebears had made a better job of the Stag in the first place , values would probably have risen before . |
25 | Palm oil earned Malaysia some £344 million in 1979 ; if left alone , rats would probably have consumed £22 million of the profits . |
26 | He would probably have maintained that minding his own business would never have got him anywhere , least of all starring on radio . |
27 | It was ironic , though , that without the official opposition the bull-running would probably have faded quietly away into obscurity . |
28 | ‘ We did not complete it because we would probably have faded out and died within a week . |
29 | The balance of the side is just as Bobby Robson would have wished it ; bearing in mind the need for midfield solidity , Rocastle would probably have played anyway . |
30 | Had he been older , more mature , Andy Laing would probably have played his cards more coolly . |