Example sentences of "[was/were] probably [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd think he was a man who women were probably tempted to mother . ’ |
| 2 | The ruling Congress party said yesterday that the blasts were probably connected to Pakistan 's intelligence agency . |
| 3 | The illustration shows the head and trunk of a young boy wearing a number of bracelets and many beads , most of which were probably attached to clothing . |
| 4 | There was a striking coincidence in the appearance of the first text on the evils of onanism ( which included both masturbation and coitus interruptus ) with the sheath being first advertised , in the mid-eighteenth century , and this suggests that most of the early tracts were probably addressed to adults . |
| 5 | Although this feat was probably know to McBride , he most likely was responding to the increasing image control evident in a painting like ‘ The Shelton with Sunspots ’ as a radical departure from the work he had encountered when he first began to review her exhibitions in 1923 . |
| 6 | The hon. Lady was probably referring to cuts in regional development grants , which reflected a move away from automatic grants which went into loss-making nationalised industries . |
| 7 | Hall was probably sent to Rochester Gaol as in June we find Nicholas certified on his recognizance at Rochester Gaol to give evidence . |
| 8 | The ducal retainer James Charleton of Riccall was probably introduced to Gloucester 's service by the Fitzhughs , while Geoffrey Franke of Escrick ( later Gloucester 's receiver in the northern Neville lands ) belonged to a family which had Lovell as well as Neville links . |
| 9 | The ducal retainer James Charleton of Riccall was probably introduced to Gloucester 's service by the Fitzhughs , while Geoffrey Franke of Escrick ( later Gloucester 's receiver in the northern Neville lands ) belonged to a family which had Lovell as well as Neville links . |
| 10 | Their language , of Indo-Aryan origin , was probably brought to Sri Lanka by immigrants from northern India over two thousand years earlier . |