Example sentences of "probably an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average number of quarrels per hour was three to four , although this was probably an underestimation . |
| 2 | I merely meant that I love you too much to refuse you anything — only I 'm probably an idiot to admit it ! ’ |
| 3 | But er in fact it 's probably an advantage because the people who come in are generally they 're very friendly they 're they 've got a good spirit amongst themselves . |
| 4 | It occurred to him that being on foot was probably an advantage ; a car drawing up on the gravel would be heard from the house . |
| 5 | He was by trade a painter-stainer , a craft which in 1581 included face painters , history painters , arms ( heraldic ) painters and house painters ; Treswell was probably an arms painter , for he painted streamers and banners for several City companies . |
| 6 | That ‘ democracy ’ was probably an oligarchy of a narrow enough type . |
| 7 | This was probably an exaggeration , though the resentment was understandable . |
| 8 | Since it is probably an exaggeration to suppose that as much as 50 per cent of the population dies selectively in each generation , let us be generous and allow ten generations per base . |
| 9 | Like most such documents it was probably an exaggeration but it marked the approaching end of a peculiarly rich period of vitality in the county . |
| 10 | This was probably an exaggeration . |
| 11 | Er , so we 'll probably an exception to the rule . |
| 12 | I 'm growing hair for charity but in many respects that 's probably an excuse . |
| 13 | Some of the crowd attempted to strike up with ‘ We shall overcome ’ but they were interrupted by a police loudspeaker announcement , which was shouted down ; this was probably an order to disperse but very few could have heard it . |
| 14 | I mean if you speak three different languages you could use three different words to put the same sort of thought of a picture dog , chien , hound there 's probably an Italian and a and that but if you speak the languages then different words different codes if you like are for the same idea . |
| 15 | Although Barraclough 's ( 1972 ) suggestion that as many as a fifth of the suicides in a series he studied might have been prevented by the wider use of lithium would be difficult to substantiate and is probably an overestimate , the fact that the lives of as many as 16 per cent of patients with manic-depressive illness may end in suicide ( Pitts and Winokur 1964 ) suggests that lithium is likely to have an important role in the prevention of suicide in some patients . |
| 16 | it 's an hour more light , but with , but , but probably an hour further south |
| 17 | And he 's probably an anarchist . ’ |
| 18 | It is mere speculation on my part — and probably an oversimplification — that the confusing post-war crop of art styles in America grew out of refugee Europeans reacting to a strange land . |
| 19 | That is probably an issue that we should examine . |
| 20 | In other words fat issue it 's probably an issue . |
| 21 | Across , they measured probably an inch , and the nipple in the centre was also small . |
| 22 | By contrast , the Corinthians passage in which Paul speaks of male headship , and in which it is said that women should be silent ( a verse which is probably an interpolation and does not owe to Paul ) , he is concerned with a practical situation which has arisen , a situation in which the church , still insecure in a pagan world , was likely to cause scandal if it departed too far from social convention — and his concern is that it should not unnecessarily put itself in jeopardy . |
| 23 | ‘ It was probably an ocean . ’ |
| 24 | That I only half-believed in this self-image — and even that is probably an overstatement — was a circumstance I tried desperately hard to conceal , both from myself and others . |
| 25 | ‘ Probably an overdose . ’ |
| 26 | The glagolitic alphabet was probably an adaptation from the old Greek cursive script . |
| 27 | Probably an adaptation of the adjustment mechanism applicable to the UK will be proposed . |
| 28 | Forty-one per cent of the known opioid users were also known to have taken other types of drug , although this is probably an underestimate since some agencies do not routinely record or receive information about all drugs used by people on their files . |
| 29 | In all a total of 45 women are recorded as having re-applied for union membership between 1919 and 1934 ( 20 of them in the first two years , 1919 and 1920 ) and this is probably an underestimate . |
| 30 | The incidence found was probably an underestimate of true community incidence as the protocol did not pick up those people in whom , for whatever reason , the clinicians caring for them did not measure the serum electrolyte values . |