Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] probably [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 After decades of speculation , the existence of a major thrust fault probably marking the concealed Variscan Front under the Mesozoic rocks of southern England was finally demonstrated by the IGS ( now BGS ) five years ago ( Kenolty et al. 1981 ) .
2 With the rectal pressure as the zero pressure reference point , the applied distension pressure probably equals the transmural pressure allowing the calculation of circumferential wall tension according to the law of LaPlace .
3 The privatisation of water during 1989 created a great deal of controversy because the water industry probably provides the best example of a natural monopoly , and the likelihood of any competition is almost non-existent .
4 Dr Eric Williams ' famous thesis linking the rise of capitalism to the slave trade probably overstated the extent to which capital derived from the infamous traffic fed into the growing industrial sector of the expanding English economy , but in pointing out that abolition came only when the slave trade was rapidly losing importance he can hardly be far from the truth .
5 Searching for mutations in a candidate gene probably remains the best approach , albeit a labour-intensive one .
6 This employment figure probably represents the highest density of those working in electronics in any European region .
7 A RADIO controller probably heard the voice of the killer of Marie Wilks as she telephoned for help from the M50 motorway , a court was told yesterday .
8 In spring melting snow releases pollutants ; in autumn rain probably removes the acid accumulated during the summer .
9 The unusual altar design probably reflects the Christian church 's powerful influence over the tribe .
10 Measles is particularly sensitive to the nutritional status of the victim ; which helps explain its decline and also its marked social class gradient ; in 1931 mortality from measles in social class V was 20 times that of children in social class I. The fall in family size probably helped the decline of this and other childhood diseases ; fewer younger and vulnerable siblings would be infected at home by playground infections brought home by older children ( Gale 1959 ) .
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