Example sentences of "[was/were] probably [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One or two holdings were probably outside the manor . |
| 2 | Violin lessons were probably beyond the reach of most working-class girls . |
| 3 | The greatest changes brought about by war were probably in the development of the cloth industry and the rise of the great clothiers to prominence within the English merchant class . |
| 4 | The police said that the men who 'd come round were probably behind the burglary . |
| 5 | It is hard to say what the theme of the book is , but I would say that it was probably about the development of the relationship between Finn and Jim through their adventures . |
| 6 | One thing about him that was probably on the plus side : he had the ability to drain away her tension and make her feel better . |
| 7 | My nerves were so strained I was probably on the point of hysteria . |
| 8 | W.H. Chaloner writes that during eight years between '58 & '67 a total of 904 tons of ore were made ready for smelting ; Sir Michael le Fleming , the new Lord , receiving dues amounting to £376 : 15s. : 0d. it is not known where the main ore dressing floor was located but it was probably on the site of the 19th century floors — near the present youth hostel . |
| 9 | Its first UK implementation was probably at the University of Edinburgh , Scotland ; an early version was brought there in 1967 by Professor J. T. Coppock . |
| 10 | It was probably at the bank , anyway , not here . ’ |
| 11 | No one knows who first made this ingenious invention , although as already indicated it was probably towards the end of the thirteenth century . |
| 12 | He was probably under the impression that she wanted to buy some furniture . |
| 13 | It was probably through the patronage of John Prideaux that Calandrini came into contact with James Ussher [ q.v. ] , later archbishop of Armagh , whom he assisted in his scholarly activities during the latter 's three-year stay in London . |
| 14 | However nicknames today are used mostly in the place of christian names and the hey-day of this use in Halling was probably during the period of the late 19th century and the early 20th century . |
| 15 | If it was like anything , thought Henry , it was probably like the art of eating out . |
| 16 | It was probably in the course of Hazlitt 's three-week visit that Joseph Cottle also arrived , finally persuaded by Coleridge and Wordsworth that he should travel down to spend a few days discussing the intended volume of poetry . |
| 17 | One , as Charles Plummer showed , was probably in the abbey of St Augustine 's Canterbury in the mid-eleventh century , and it fathered not only the immediate precursor of E , but also F , a Canterbury version of the Chronicle in English and Latin which ends damaged in 1058 . |
| 18 | Much of the exchange was probably in the form of reciprocity bound up with gift-giving as Grierson implies ( 1959 ) . |
| 19 | His reply is not recorded , but it was probably in the negative . |
| 20 | Knowing that Adam was probably in the elevator on his way to the beach , Buzz hurled herself out of the kitchen and ran upstairs . |
| 21 | They say the body was probably in the compost for about a week . |
| 22 | Willie Baxter was gripped by fear , he did n't understand it , he hated the dark tunnels , he stopped walking and the noise stopped ; by now Willie was probably near the point where the tunnels passed under the River Clyde and it was said that it was possible to hear the sound of a ship 's propeller whenever a vessel passed overhead . |
| 23 | Erm , it became very clear that that , that bid erm , was in fact , at an early stage , that that bid was not , did not have a realistic chance of being successful , so as , as you know Chairman , when you went on the delegation to see er , Mr in London , actually at that meeting , er , the members of the delegation said to the Secretary of State , well , we recognize , Secretary of State that it 's the wrong area , what we 'd like to really argue for is a bid for the urban core out in Browsley , erm , in , at the end of the day , we did n't even quite get that , but what we did manage to get was objective two status for the urban core of Telford still , and I think that was probably against the odds . |
| 24 | It was probably among the Masses performed at Vitellozzi 's house on 27 April 1565 . |