Example sentences of "probably a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is likely that Compact activities within the school will be co-ordinated by a member of the senior management team , probably a Deputy Head . |
| 2 | Probably a squirrel , he decided , and slithered down the side of the embankment to join her , scolding as he went . |
| 3 | And I think if you 're going to open it up , you must consider probably a wicker gate or something s so that a child can not run onto Road . |
| 4 | It differs from most kouroi in having the right foot forward and the arms raised from the elbow , something ( probably a bow ) grasped in the left fist and something lying on the open right palm . |
| 5 | It seems sure to be close and this is probably a race best watched but if forced to pass judgement , a narrow vote is advised for Katabatic . |
| 6 | This figure is quite small , almost dwarf-like , and has an oversize ape 's head ( probably a mask ) . |
| 7 | His intervention at this time , in the same way as his intervention in Kent in 764–5 , was probably a response to political instability among the South Saxons . |
| 8 | Being married is probably a hindrance . ’ |
| 9 | Right , okay , it 's going to be a solid , probably a powder . |
| 10 | The required level of documentation is much higher , ’ Phillips now says that ‘ it was probably a trick ’ . |
| 11 | Just for a moment I thought I saw a flicker of emotion in her eyes , but it was probably a trick of the light . |
| 12 | No doubt many , probably a majority , of the cases of non-gonococcal urethritis are due to infectious organisms , but there remains a hard core of cases from which no pathogenic germs can be isolated and for which it is just conceivable that antibiotic treatment may not be the best therapy . |
| 13 | Probably a majority would recommend treatment of the female sexual partner(s) with at least the first attack of NSU , but , as with gonorrhoea where up to one third of female gonorrhoea contacts can be shown not to have the disease , such a policy of treatment without diagnosis is bound to lead to a certain amount of overtreatment . |
| 14 | Such women ( I include myself ) are probably a majority in the movement ( it was the sort of feeling that brought us into it in the first place , and anyway we have more time than mothers ) but not among women as a whole , most of whom appear to want to spend at least part of their lives having and raising children . |
| 15 | Contemporaries regarded the party as one of reform , although probably a majority of Liberal members in the new Parliament still were radicals of the old Gladstonian kind , placing financial retrenchment and self-help before costly reform . |
| 16 | It would seem to be still more inappropriate for the criminal law to deny its protection to parties ( probably a majority in this country ) who have expressly chosen to be married according to a wholly different ceremony . |
| 17 | virtually all the early canals and probably a majority of the later ones , were overwhelmingly local in both promotion and finance … |
| 18 | The employers acknowledged that , in addition to the force of public opinion , another way to curb prices would be to establish a body ( probably a prices commission ) to examine particular prices and report on them publicly . |
| 19 | This is the meaning of the proposition that ‘ another way to curb prices would be to establish a body ( probably a prices commission ) to examine particular prices and report upon them publicly ’ . |
| 20 | It was also probably a link that led through several species of hominids , some of which died out , to man . |
| 21 | Well apparently erm Peter , last week at Bristol City , that very disappointing display , Andy Melville was awarded the United man of the match award erm down at Bristol , which I believe , I do stand corrected on this , was probably a bottle of something , and a suit holder , something you carry your suit in . |
| 22 | I looked at him closely and I think he 's probably a vet . |
| 23 | Mr Browning said it was probably a bird he hit on the way , and later cleaned the car . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's probably a bird , ’ said Angalo . |
| 25 | Less than this is probably a self limiting viral throat . |
| 26 | In B R days , not a very good picture , but an B one Thompson , four six O B one on a erm probably a Birmingham train , er real cross country . |
| 27 | It is probably a mistake to regard the urethral syndrome as one single condition rather as it would be wrong to think of ‘ pneumonia ’ as being a single disease of the lungs . |
| 28 | One was once seen to use a stone to kill a monitor lizard , but this was probably a mistake ! |
| 29 | He had braked automatically , which was probably a mistake . |
| 30 | His execution was probably a mistake , for it deprived the north of its only effective military leader , and left Edward little option but to take over the same policy and conclude a truce . |