Example sentences of "[was/were] probably [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I have lots of letters which I discovered about five years ago , which I thought were probably letters that my father had written it , Adam , because his name and my grandfather 's name were exactly the same . |
| 2 | This suggests that there was a subordinate caste of priests who were transvestite , who became nominal priestesses in the service of the deity : they were probably eunuchs . |
| 3 | I mean from rig to rig things work differently and I mean on on Piper , I would say there were probably things that could have been tightened up but then again I do n't think they were part and parcel of what happened and there on July the sixth . |
| 4 | That fact alone makes it clear that they must have been preceded into the air by other vegetarian forms which , judging from the primitive nature of their anatomy , were probably cockroaches , grasshoppers , locusts and crickets . |
| 5 | His ancestors were probably Normans who came over . |
| 6 | After all , this was Hackney and there were probably by-laws about such things . |
| 7 | The waterfall was surrounded by sweet-smelling trees that modern botanists say were probably Aquilaria sinensis . |
| 8 | These early nautiloids were probably predators also , and if this were so they may have been the first rapidly moving , efficient hunters in the sea . |
| 9 | Rudd 's promotions were probably attempts to remunerate a man who was of more value to the Tudor state as a cartographer than as a cleric . |
| 10 | By AD 500 , there were probably bananas in Madagascar , imported from Asia , though some authorities believe Madagascar was not in effect colonized by man until 500 years after that . |
| 11 | They thought they were probably road maintenance men from the Cajamarca region . ’ |
| 12 | pity they were probably enemies , marriage or not . |
| 13 | Many of the early mammals were probably insect eaters , as are many of the primitive representatives of the group today . |
| 14 | The finest two batsmen to spring from Durham were probably A.E . |
| 15 | The majority of the Chelt mills were probably corn mills . |
| 16 | Men with £3 — £4 were probably smallholders , but , although £2 attracted the same rate of tax , men at this level tended to overlap with those beneath , their assessments being reduced to £1 on some occasions . |
| 17 | There were probably machines that could have lowered and pulled up the basket easily , but he 'd preferred to loop the wire around a pillar inside the Ship and , with Pion helping inside , to pull themselves up and down by sheer nomish effort . |
| 18 | Joan Thirsk 's brilliant examination of these variations , region by region , illustrates this for the period from 1500 onwards ( 103 , pp.1–112 ) , and there is no reason to believe that a similar diversity did not exist at the earlier period also , although there were probably changes in detail in particular areas , such as those caused by climatic change to which allusion was made in Chapter 1 . |
| 19 | Although most of the ‘ Lees ’ were probably Flanellys or Murphies , there may have been some Romanies present . |
| 20 | Almost it appeared empty , deserted even by the police , but he doubted that this was so , there were probably men inside at this very minute . |
| 21 | There were probably people here with lurchers . |
| 22 | They were probably war veterans . |
| 23 | Well there would be , yes , I would imagine or if they certainly would , they would of been in the past , they may have been cut down , but that would indicate to me that there were probably trees |
| 24 | Again , not much is known , but it is thought they were probably pets or purely working dogs . |
| 25 | The nearest concepts to it in early modern England were probably sodomy and buggery . |
| 26 | These cells were probably lymphocytes , as similar cells in serial sections were found to be CD3+ , CD25+ . |
| 27 | Most householders were probably employees rather than employers , men who worked as journeymen or casual labourers . |
| 28 | They were probably detectives . |
| 29 | In the olden days , with no contraception to speak of , there were probably masses of women , especially the poor ones , to whom child-bearing must have been a penance which they were forced to endure because there was no way out . |
| 30 | ‘ Not right now , ’ I said , looking around the crowd , acknowledging a few waves and some distant mouthings that were probably shouts . |