Example sentences of "in [adj] probability [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The legend of the Dent vampire is in all probability nothing more than an elaborate leg-pull , but it 's worth relating in case you have n't heard it before . |
| 2 | ‘ Our affluent workers remain , in spite of their affluence , men who live by selling their labour power to their employers in return for wages ; and , in all probability they will still be so at the end of their working days . |
| 3 | In all probability they were not yet reconciled with the king . |
| 4 | In all probability they were now far apart , lying — sweet Jesus — wherever they happened to fall ! |
| 5 | Even when a decision is taken , nothing much is expected to change in the short term as in all probability there will be a fairly lengthy transitional period . |
| 6 | In all probability there were always a few freeholders in any county who could be prevailed upon in this way to swing their votes behind a candidate who offered a guarantee of advantage . |
| 7 | In all probability there were young cubs below , born back in February , and their sleeping quarters must be kept warm and dry . |
| 8 | There is no evidence to show what the position was at the end of the last war but in all probability there has been an improvement over the years . |
| 9 | She certainly did n't want his sympathy ; in all probability she could n't even have coped with it — but still , it would have been reassuring to detect some trace of humanity in the man . |
| 10 | In all probability it was made as an innocent copy in the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | In all probability it was a combination of several factors , not least the suspected flaw in her stamina which made her vulnerable once that fierce early pace had been set by St Denis . |
| 12 | In all probability it was quite the opposite . |
| 13 | If you have a regional accent , do n't be tempted to try to disguise it , in all probability it will simply sound affected . |
| 14 | He told a Common select committee : ‘ It is not possible to be certain the recession is over , but there seem to be enough indications to say in all probability it is . ’ |
| 15 | Essentially , everything is much the same as in the classical template except that in all probability it will be pretty well apparent to the reader quite soon who it is who has committed the murder . |
| 16 | In all probability it really had been nothing more than a prank . |
| 17 | At the other end of the scale , promoting a father from being manager of a middle-ranking enterprise to a top-ranking enterprise is also unlikely to alter the son 's chances much , because in all probability he already attends a selective school . |
| 18 | In all probability he had thrown it out with the rest when he had moved to London in 1973 . |
| 19 | Bécherel had been under the command of one of his retainers , and another had been Constable of Saint-Sauveur , though in all probability he had not been involved in its surrender . |
| 20 | In all probability he would be bewildered . |
| 21 | ‘ In all probability he will . |
| 22 | In all probability he was greeted at the tiny settlement known as The Lagoons by an impromptu ‘ corrobery ’ , just as the missionary James Backhouse had been the year before . |
| 23 | Although , in referring to the possibility that serfdom might " abolish itself from below " , the tsar seemed to be responding to the rural disturbances which had resulted from Nicholas 's militia creations , in all probability he simply lifted the phrase from a Third Department report of 1839 whose purpose , though reformist , had hardly been the complete transformation of government policy . |
| 24 | In all probability he failed to understand the consequences of his actions . |
| 25 | In all probability you will also see how not to lay them out . |
| 26 | But here , luckily , you will be spared the difficulty that can arise through not having " seen " that murder since in all probability you will have begun your story by describing , in as much vivid and convincing detail as you can manage , the killing itself or its immediate circumstances as they affect the perpetrator . |
| 27 | These certainly were not in the box when it arrived in England and I fear were purloined from you either at Perth or Sydney , the tin box where in all probability you intended to put them not being opened at the Docks . |
| 28 | And in all probability you were n't alone , which means that either you fell , or were swept , out of a boat someone else has landed safely somewhere . ’ |
| 29 | On his knees in the grass , he was aware that he was not going to make it — that in all probability none of them were . |
| 30 | Although the mathematical content of Bayes 's paper is not especially noteworthy , it includes a result which is a special case of a more general theorem in conditional probability which , anachronistically , has therefore become known as Bayes 's Theorem . |