Example sentences of "[pers pn] is probable that " in BNC.

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31 It is probable that in retrospect he gave that factor more weight than it carried at the time .
32 Previously it is probable that the state of the harvest decided the need for the additional month .
33 Had he never existed , it is probable that the Almoravid Moors , under their fanatical leader Yusuf , would have overrun a far greater area of central Spain — and perhaps prevented the gradual blurring of the two cultures which produced the later kingdoms of Moorish Spain and thereafter the great empire of the sixteenth century .
34 It is probable that oil demand in Canada will fall no further but by conservation and energy efficiency may be kept at its present level to the end of the century without inhibiting economic growth .
35 It is probable that , for a large part of our lives , little emphasis was placed on the use of imagination , colour and rhythm and yet we were all born with the potential to use our right brain just as much as the left .
36 It is probable that the Dexter was developed from very small Kerries but the two breeds are now genetically distinct , though the longer-legged type of Dexter is potentially a useful gene reservoir for the rare Kerry .
37 A flight of external stairs allowed him easy access to the bookroom , and there he must often have been found when the ‘ noise of Women & children ’ , which made study impossible , had driven him once again from Lime Street : it is probable that most of the poems associated with the cottage were at least partly written in the bookroom .
38 It is probable that in most hypertriglyceridaemic insulin-dependent patients , the main defect is at the lipoprotein lipase level and hence there is a clearance defect .
39 However , it is probable that varying degrees of impairment of peripheral uptake of triglyceride interact with enhanced , normal or decreased secretion of VLDL to produce the wide range of lipid levels observed in untreated diabetes .
40 It is probable that there are different types of α-granules with different granular contents which may be released in different situations ( Kaplan , 1981 ) .
41 However , when the thromboxane generation is suppressed it is probable that endoperoxides can be proaggregatory themselves ( Bunting et al , 1983 ) .
42 In addition to their hypoglycaemic action it is probable that some or all of these compounds may have antiplatelet effects .
43 If they are strongly and exclusively attached to domineering parents who set impossibly high standards and are deeply ‘ hurt ’ when their offspring fail to live up to them , it is probable that they will acquire a sense of conscience so severe and restrictive that their spontaneity and emotional life will be crippled and much of their creative energy will remain unused .
44 If the responses are to be analysed without a great deal of trouble it is probable that the likely answers have been thought of beforehand and that certain likely response categories are already incorporated in the schedule itself .
45 It is probable that some units on sale will find applications in other , wood-rich developing countries .
46 If more than one rendering of ‘ truth ’ is claimed to survive , then it is probable that real truth is absent entirely .
47 During this period it is probable that prior to the emergence of the first living cell , there was an immense span of time in which purely chemical changes were taking place , these changes were pre-life , and pre- ‘ god ’ , that is , before the Created God which it is the object of this chapter to introduce .
48 It is probable that it was during the period which is termed the ‘ dawn of civilisation ’ that the first primitive acts of homage or deference to a ‘ god ’ occurred , and if this were so it could be an indication that the need for a ‘ god ’ is fundamental to the civilising process .
49 I would suggest that it is probable that Marx , as a materialist , would not have disagreed with Bukharin 's exposition of the case , since Marx 's own illustrations of simple and extended reproduction were implicitly based upon the same assumptions .
50 It is probable that Germany was less wealthy than England in comparison to its size , and that it was easier for Henry I to recruit an army of mercenaries than for Henry V. For whatever reason , the contrast outlived our period .
51 As ozone depletion continues , and the ‘ holes ’ become bigger , it is probable that the two poles will be the worst affected regions because of their extreme , but favourable , weather conditions .
52 On this argument , it is probable that the aggregate supply of labour will have a positive slope as shown in Fig. 2.5 .
53 If we are tackling a very big warren it is probable that only the most likely of the bolt-holes will have been fitted with purse nets , simply because insufficient nets are available .
54 It is probable that the owl was after beetles or insects rather than live rabbits .
55 It is probable that a maypole tradition had already been in existence for many years , if not centuries .
56 And it is probable that he then left them again , taking his believing wife with him , and lived by the gospel .
57 Although it takes a few minutes for the body to send out any strong signals of satiety it is probable that chewing and swallowing movements do begin to send messages to the brain .
58 It is probable that their thermo-regulatory techniques actually went through prolonged periods of metamorphoses .
59 An MC200 pilot claimed one Hurricane damaged , and it is probable that it was these fighters , rather than Bf109s , which attacked Laubscher and/or Pain subsequent to their fight with the biplanes .
60 It is probable that blocs of left-wing parties will soon be created with common platforms and strategies .
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