Example sentences of "it probably [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 For the tenants and farmworkers , it probably meant little change , since the religious were rarely benevolent landlords .
2 For more than 40 years , since the passage of the 1944 Education Act , central government had no formal role in determining the curriculum of schools ; it probably had little role in practice for several years before .
3 In doing so it probably aroused some sympathy among the Party membership , though it could not prevent a movement which was receiving support from national figures .
4 Another exception to the proposed pattern , is the 34 acre town at Caister-by-Yarmouth ; this is the only town apart from Brough-on-Humber , which occupied an exposed position on the east coast , vulnerable to sea-raiders and it probably required this protection , but it must also have had a special relationship with the nearby Saxon Shore fort at Burgh Castle .
5 Nevertheless , the NRPB found it probably did significant harm .
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