Example sentences of "but it be probable that " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 60 stitches have now been inserted in fragile brows but it is probable that Biggs will never recover from the beating he took from Tyson . |
| 2 | Certainly Eliot 's studies in Sanskrit and Pali at Harvard under Lanman and Woods had given him a thorough knowledge of Indian thought , but it is probable that Kipling 's version of metempsychosis had at least an equally important effect . |
| 3 | Polls in medium or small communities were not often violent ; but it is probable that the same tensions were present as in Ajdabiya , and that they were exacerbated by the absence of campaign , by the necessity of choosing among ideologically undifferentiated candidates , and by the prolonged confrontation of voters in a confined space . |
| 4 | Why Stirling and Maclean were invited remains a bit of a mystery , but it is probable that Randolph had mentioned them to his father . |
| 5 | The rate of growth of agricultural output in the Meiji period is subject to considerable dispute , but it is probable that a rate of around 1.8 per cent annual growth in output was maintained through to the early 1900s at least , far outstripping the rate of population growth in the same period . |
| 6 | He later became a freeman of the Salters ' Company , like his father , but it is probable that his chief occupation was as a teacher of mathematics and accounting . |
| 7 | , Sir William ( 1745–1816 ) , vice-admiral , had obscure origins : neither his place of birth nor his parents are mentioned in the Naval Chronicle 's report of his death , but it is probable that he went early to sea , since on joining the Dolphin on 8 July 1766 he was rated able . |
| 8 | It would be an exaggeration to say that every trade union member is now aware of the Commissioner , but it is probable that a disgruntled member 's first contact point would be able to pass on the relevant information . |
| 9 | As we move on to the fifteenth century , it is hard to judge the extent or the severity of individual outbreaks of plague or of other diseases , but it is probable that some of the epidemics which occurred in urban centres , where plague was most common , were on a sufficient scale to outweigh any natural increase in the population . |
| 10 | In recent years members of Darlington Lecture Association have heard some remarkable stories but it is probable that few have been so remarkable or so moving as that which John Hawkridge will tell on Monday . |
| 11 | Obviously , a line-by-line comparison was not needed at this point , but it was probable that their conditions would be at variance with others in the same industry . |