Example sentences of "[noun sg] was probably [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time Coleman picked up the threads of the plot in February 1987 , there was still no clear plan of attack , although it was generally agreed among Hurley and his colleagues that luring Younis into a drug deal was probably the key , and that a lot of political hassle would be avoided if he could be taken , say , in international waters . |
| 2 | The Iranian embassy issued a statement saying the murder was probably the result of a settling of old scores within the Iranian opposition . |
| 3 | The brightest splash in the newsagent was probably the display of orange and green Penguin paperbacks — the main paperbacks available . |
| 4 | The meat tea was probably the answer . |
| 5 | The origin of civilisation was probably the arrival of a mental process in the evolving human being which , for the first time , was not a purely instinctive one . |
| 6 | Morice was probably the MP for Wareham in 1563 , but was active locally in Essex , from his house in Chipping Ongar . |
| 7 | ( Arnoult 's ( 1953 , experiment 2 ) , failure to find an effect was probably a consequence of giving too little preliminary training . ) |
| 8 | In fact , the proposed mass redundancy in and around the mining industry was probably the straw that broke the camel 's back for the British people . |
| 9 | Barley , supplemented towards the east by legumes , was the ubiquitous cereal ; with investment in crops and livestock evenly balanced on the smaller holdings , mixed farming for subsistence was probably the norm . |
| 10 | Morrison said later he felt Border had edged the ball , but he agreed that television replays appeared to show the ‘ woody ’ sound was probably the ball touching the stump . |
| 11 | His landfall was probably the Tange peninsula . |
| 12 | Given that the Greek root of the word is gorgo ( devil ) , the Demogorgon was probably a manifestation of Satan . |
| 13 | My first real friend was probably a boy called Adam . |
| 14 | This name was probably a corruption of an old Nez Perce word Tssop-nit-palu , meaning ‘ The Walking People ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ There were two of them , ’ she said , ‘ both men , one of them was white , the other was probably a Pakistani . |
| 16 | The glagolitic alphabet was probably an adaptation from the old Greek cursive script . |
| 17 | Laughton came from Scarborough and while his best known film role was probably The Hunchback of Notre Dame he won his Oscar in 1932–33 for The Private Life of Henry VIII . |
| 18 | The man was probably the victim of another accident . |
| 19 | Its importance as a late Saxon estate centre was probably the result of it being an equally important Roman and even Iron Age estate . |
| 20 | Although some of the Roman cattle of the time were indeed large , with long lyre-shaped horns , the archaeological evidence does not in fact suggest that larger stock were imported into Roman Britain , but rather that the increase in size was probably the result of improved management and breeding of the existing British cattle . |
| 21 | The threat to the ‘ young ’ mentioned here by the then Home Secretary was probably the fear most frequently expressed by those who later resisted legislative change in this area . |
| 22 | R S P C A officials think the pony was probably a child 's pet and are surprised that no one is missing him . |
| 23 | The Iranian opposition immediately blamed Tehran , but the Iranian official news agency said the killing was probably the result of factional disputes among dissidents . |
| 24 | The carnivore was probably a medium to small canid such as the jackal ( see also Horowitz & Goldberg , 1989 ) . |
| 25 | The statement was probably a bit of an exaggeration but it demonstrated just how strongly Peter Fonda felt about the Nicholson play . |
| 26 | I think the blackmail threat was probably a load of eye-wash . |
| 27 | Since he knew himself to be totally lost already , any direction was probably an improvement . |
| 28 | This building was probably the gate-house to the hostelry . |
| 29 | In fact , in so far as religion was involved , the contrary was probably the case , as the ideas of the Reformation affected the nobles and the town dwellers more than the peasants . |
| 30 | It occurred to him that being on foot was probably an advantage ; a car drawing up on the gravel would be heard from the house . |