Example sentences of "[pron] have probably been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think we 've probably been a bit lax about checking them out . ’ |
| 2 | Although there has probably been a long-term decline in serious violence in Europe over the past several centuries , the relationship of this trend to patterns of theft and other property crime , or to broad forces of social change , remains obscure . |
| 3 | The report admits that " there has probably been a persistent tendency within the world 's energy industry to understate the technical potential for improvement and substitution " . |
| 4 | Okay , well I mean there are var various people that enter sales as you know they 've probably been a plumber or something and gone into it . |
| 5 | The churchyard around it has probably been a burial place for 1000 years . |
| 6 | In the end , to draw matters to an unhappy conclusion they all agreed that it had probably been a bin liner . |
| 7 | His first impression was that somebody had started to construct a small harbour , but then he saw a shallow groove cut in the face of the cliff which must at one time have accommodated a pipe , and it occurred to him that it had probably been a sewage outfall . |
| 8 | The children , however , were persistent and led the way round to the side of the building , stopping at what had probably been a small parcels office . |