Example sentences of "probably the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An unnamed minister ( probably the Lord President , Lord Salisbury ) , in the absence of control on coloured immigration , spoke of ‘ a real danger that over the years there would be a significant change in the racial character of the English people ’ . |
| 2 | The Carpenter family were themselves stalwarts of the said chapel , and Charles 's bride is probably the Elizabeth Carpenter who was baptised there on 2 April 1760 , then aged between 11 and 12 years old . |
| 3 | Probably the incident to receive the greatest publicity , at least in Britain , involved the shooting-up of two British Warrior armoured personnel carriers by an American A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft while all three were pursuing the retreating Iraqis , resulting in nine British infantrymen being killed . |
| 4 | However , we want to argue in favour of thinking in terms of something other than a sentence as being the major psychological processing unit ; and , as we will see , a more appropriate processing unit is probably the clause . |
| 5 | His landfall was probably the Tange peninsula . |
| 6 | He created that sense of surprise on the ice , going on to become probably the skating world 's leading choreographer . |
| 7 | ‘ So it comes back to the alcohol , probably the brandy , and Lord Wittisham . ’ |
| 8 | Probably the rite was an ordeal , one of many rites of passage that young Minoans , girls as well as boys , had to undergo in order to achieve higher status . |
| 9 | When maize cultivation was introduced it was probably the females in the Georgia communities who did the growing and harvesting of the crops as well as all the preparation and cooking of the family 's food . |
| 10 | Wilfrid was at Ripon with Eadwulf 's son , probably the Earnwine , son of Eadwulf , who was killed in 740 . |
| 11 | ‘ probably the storm last night . ’ |
| 12 | And the telephone number I remember to this day , was Porthmadog so that shows it was at least probably the telephone to go into being in Porthmadog . |
| 13 | I am utterly unable to understand how the retention by the trustees in their own hands of a portion of the income which they receive in order to pay lawful claims upon the fund , and charges which probably the lady herself would have had to pay or get paid for her , if she were resident in New York , and which the trustees will have to account for fully , can change the " origin or parentage " of the residue of the income received , lodged with the bankers of the beneficiaries . |
| 14 | Well probably the Dad would but he |
| 15 | It was written in reply to an inquiry from an abbot , probably the abbot of Fécamp , who was engaged in rebuilding his abbey church . |
| 16 | ‘ That was probably the turning point , ’ said the former champion , White . |
| 17 | It was very probably the memory of what had happened after the previous war . |
| 18 | It was not only waders that made use of the sand : green-backed herons , cattle egrets and a solitary grey heron were also busily feeding , and a distant party of little terns on a sand spit were probably the race called Saunders 's tern , judging by the amount of dark on the wing-tips when they flew off . |
| 19 | The later fate of the Sancy diamond has not been established with complete certainty , but it was probably the stone bought by William Waldorf Astor , 1 st Viscount Astor , in 1906 as a wedding present for his son . |
| 20 | The most useful samples are probably the leaves and shoots of trees which have root systems extending for several metres into the underlying bedrock . |
| 21 | It was most probably the closeness to the river that was the deciding factor in choosing the site , for the state of the roads at that time made it easier to travel by water . |
| 22 | this is probably the test of the next hundred days . |
| 23 | Ridley had taken a course in biochemistry , and so was probably the person best equipped to pursue the matter , which turned out to be very difficult . |
| 24 | Probably the person will conclude that ‘ it 's not worth finishing my work quickly , all that happens is I get stuck with twice as much ! ’ |
| 25 | For ‘ Scheibenbuck ’ I have not a clue , though it is probably the name of the vintner . |
| 26 | This was an attractive scheme , not least because both the pupil-teacher and the headmaster or headmistress were paid for their trouble , and was very probably the route which Benjamin James followed . |
| 27 | In their book , Leytonstone would therefore be real bandit country and Romford , once you 'd convinced them that it was n't actually off the edge of the map , was probably the Twilight Zone . |
| 28 | The most successful example is probably the reduction of American prickly pears ( Opuntia , Cactaceae ) in the rangelands of Australia by the introduction of the moth whose larvae feed on such cacti in the Americas . |
| 29 | I mean probably the members did n't realize what was going on . |
| 30 | However , pieces of Norman and medieval masonry can be seen in a nearby barn and in local field walls , and to the east of the church is a round mound , probably the motte of an abortive or adulterine castle . |