Example sentences of "probably [vb past] from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The practice of eating dead enemies probably arose from the idea that you could absorb the better qualities of the person who had died through eating their flesh . |
| 2 | He used red bulls for preference among the Angus , and suggested that this recessive colour factor probably arose from the use of red Durhams ( originating from Dutch cattle ) two centuries earlier . |
| 3 | This most probably stemmed from the fact that the bronze-using Aunjetitz communities of Bohemia acquired a taste for amber from their Neolithic neighbours in Poland , defined in the archaeological record by their globular amphorae . |
| 4 | Within the pale the strangers entering were observed immediately , and approached with an alertness and efficiency that probably stemmed from the fact that the earl himself was in residence . |
| 5 | The severest revilement , however , probably came from the mob in the street and the clergy . |
| 6 | The skull has recently been identified as the fossilized cranium of a white woman , at least 1,500 years old , which probably came from the burial ground on Pilsden Pen . |
| 7 | He said the skull probably came from the Iron Age settlement . |
| 8 | There is some mystery about the origin of the stock dove 's name , but it probably came from the habit of nesting in the stocks or trunks of trees . |
| 9 | Although at first TANU was at a disadvantage in not having its own daily paper , it probably benefited from the publicity , albeit negative , given by the Government press . |
| 10 | This probably resulted from the fall in sea level during the glacial period , which would have exposed more land around the continent , allowing the mantle to spread over a wider continent , to cover what is now shallow sea-bed , and to thicken inland along the line of the present coast . |