Example sentences of "[adj] [is] probably " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All right , your claim that I was superfluous is probably valid , so why was n't I made redundant in the usual way ? |
| 2 | I think this is probably true of the Metropolitan Police ; they have never really allowed any fundamental research on any sensitive issue . |
| 3 | This is probably the most untrue statement I have heard in some time . |
| 4 | This is probably the most difficult material to handle because the many characters and nationalities involved in the various available libretti must express themselves as distinctively as they do in real life and the choreographer must try and ensure his design has some semblance of reality if it is to communicate meaning . |
| 5 | This is probably what accounts for the fact that being featured in one of those articles entitled ‘ Faces to Watch in the New Year ’ , or worse , ‘ Who Will Be Who in the Coming Decade ’ is almost inevitably a ticket to total oblivion . |
| 6 | This is probably because , put simply , the word ‘ patent ’ applies to a physical thing , like a new piece of machinery or electrical gadget , whereas ‘ copyright ’ applies to ‘ intellectual property ’ , that is ‘ ideas ’ and ‘ creations ’ . |
| 7 | This idea was totally foreign and repugnant tot he accepted view of their time and this is probably still largely so today . |
| 8 | This is probably the best value of the Christmas publications . |
| 9 | This is probably why they are particularly good for stuffing game , when it is quite usual for a whole small bird to be served . |
| 10 | This is probably the largest of all the categories of cheeses and it encompasses many of the traditional British varieties ( see The Great British Eight , p86 ) as well as continental cheeses such as Edam , Chaumes and Pyrenees . |
| 11 | This is probably what will happen at a shareholders ' meeting on March 13th , thanks to a closing of ranks by Germany 's top industrialists . |
| 12 | Drunkenness due to one 's own fault is in itself no defence to a criminal charge ; and this is probably true also of drunkenness not due to one 's own fault — though no doubt the fact that it was not due to one 's own fault would be a ground for mitigation of punishment . |
| 13 | This is probably nowhere near as long as your list but it gives you some idea of how much detail is needed in recording items . |
| 14 | This close association of Church and Party may well have had a cost to the Church in limiting recruitment to people who are not committed supporters of the Official Unionist Party but , given that the DUP support is twenty times the size of the Free Church and that there is a large uncommitted population , this is probably not something which explains why more people do not join the Free Church . |
| 15 | It is no coincidence that Bessmertnova is the wife of the Bolshoi 's artistic director , Yuri Grigorovich , and that this is probably her last chance to turn her former reputation into hard currency . |
| 16 | The imminence of the Premier League means that this is probably the last time the famous old knockout tournament will be played while some degree of financial equality exists between the present First and Second divisions . |
| 17 | Yet — and this is probably the most powerful message to Americans — in the depth of a recession , with a government looking tired and error-prone , the Conservatives probably clinched victory because Britons like and trust Mr Major more than Mr Kinnock . |
| 18 | But this is probably the easier of the Tories ' tasks . |
| 19 | ‘ This is probably my most important game to date , certainly I have never played in front of the kind of crowd that is expected , and I have never played at Twickenham , though I have heard about the swirling wind that can make life uncomfortable for kickers . |
| 20 | This is probably your best choice where space is limited : you need a minimum of about 2.4m ( 8ft ) of space if you 're going to be able to get out of your car without being a contortionist . |
| 21 | This is probably because they are all adapted to forest or woodland conditions and none of them has developed the close-knit social formations that are characteristic of open-country animals . |
| 22 | This is probably more coincident with the postwar revolution of questioning hierarchical structures , especially if seemingly undemocratic , coupled with an influx of new members , rather than an objection to the interest . |
| 23 | If it has a Solex carb then this is probably worn out as they have not been fitted for many years . |
| 24 | Since Philip Leapor 's sister had died in childhood , this is probably a sister of the poet 's mother , suggesting that the Sharman family was also literate . |
| 25 | In fact , this is probably , the most completely original church from the sixteenth-century in Milan and has a long history of being attended by the rich and powerful . |
| 26 | But this is probably because such retirement arrangements died out before formalizing them became the normal custom , rather than because they were never common . |
| 27 | I have always found the Rottweilers in Norway to be of very stable disposition , and this is probably because the Rottweilers live as family pets , with a stable home life . |
| 28 | This is probably a result of inadequate treatment and is more common in those who have been treated late on in the infectious stage . |
| 29 | This is probably a good indication that you should n't waste your time going to bed with him again . |
| 30 | This is probably the last of what can be described as a traditional Farnborough year , although many of the old faces were disappearing , many new faces were emerging too . |