Example sentences of "[modal v] probably [verb] [be] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would probably have been a cover-up in any army , if only to find the time to deal with the malefactors by the army 's own rules . |
| 2 | Herbert von Karajan would probably have been a phenomenon in any age — musical talent of this order , high intelligence , and such singleness of purpose rarely go unregistered — but the twentieth-century context has made the career an unusually fascinating one , even if it has not always been very well understood by the apprentice biographers or the journalists who find Karajan such an irresistible source of copy . |
| 3 | As retail centres they would probably have been a success , but they threatened existing centres and the needs of non-car owners : ‘ these and other proposals were greeted with hostility by planners and rejected largely on impact grounds ’ ( Schiller , 1986 , 13 ) . |
| 4 | But revenge was not the whole motive : without it , the joke might have been cheaper , less elaborate , of a different kind — but there would probably have been a joke of some kind . |
| 5 | I take no point on this except to say that normally ( and this case would probably have been no exception ) some documents and some items of information would be disclosable while privilege would be claimed in respect of others . |
| 6 | Has a special fondness for books of notable provenance — such as Kenneth Clarke 's schoolboy copies of Berenson 's Florentine Painters laces with exquisite Wykehamist scribblings ; or a volume whose title page is inscribed with the words ‘ To Glen Byam Shaw , without whom there would probably have been no Memoirs of an Infantry Officer , from his friend SS ’ . |
| 7 | I think the reason why is that I never actually told the community or my comrades about the film — if I had there would probably have been an informer somewhere . ’ |
| 8 | Again , the ARC will probably have been a test . |
| 9 | On a more light-hearted matter there have been several amusing items discussed , including a subject that will probably have been a topic of conversation at a few lunch tables — uniforms . |