Example sentences of "it [is] probable [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's probable that the memory of most children of our generation is of women as workers . |
| 2 | Provision is made for timing differences between the treatment of certain items for taxation and accounting purposes to the extent that it is probable that a liability or asset will crystallise . |
| 3 | Provision is made for timing differences between the treatment of certain items for taxation and accounting purposes , to the extent that it is probable that a liability or asset will crystallise . |
| 4 | Provision is made for timing differences between the treatment of certain items for taxation and accounting purposes , to the extent that it is probable that a liability or asset will crystallise . |
| 5 | It is probable that a maypole tradition had already been in existence for many years , if not centuries . |
| 6 | The rate of growth of agricultural output in the Meiji period is subject to considerable dispute , but it is probable that a rate of around 1.8 per cent annual growth in output was maintained through to the early 1900s at least , far outstripping the rate of population growth in the same period . |
| 7 | For example , the pressures on nomadic and tribal peoples to adopt a more settled way of life are increasing , and it is probable that a number of these groups may either cease , or radically alter , their rug-making traditions in the foreseeable future . |
| 8 | Deferred tax should be accounted for to the extent that it is probable that an asset or liability will arise . |
| 9 | Deferred tax should be provided to the extent that it is probable that an asset or liability will arise . |
| 10 | ( It is probable that the majority of idioms began their lives as metaphors ; and synchronically , transitional cases , which are idioms for some and metaphors for others , are not uncommon . |
| 11 | Previously it is probable that the state of the harvest decided the need for the additional month . |
| 12 | It is not too much to say that the quoted argument has the strength of this : We say it is probable that the spoon is under the napkin ; the relation of " being under " is therefore a relation of probability . |
| 13 | ‘ While researchers can as yet give us no clear answers as to what this signifies ’ he said , ‘ it is probable that the brain will be affected by the chemical working environment as we nowadays know it in factories , office buildings with an unhealthy internal climate and polluted city air ’ . |
| 14 | It is probable that the owl was after beetles or insects rather than live rabbits . |
| 15 | It is probable that the university buildings were sited on the line of the geomantic Taurean figure and this pagan connection accounts for the violent suppression of the university by the Pope in the early seventh century . |
| 16 | It is probable that the soliloquy is based on a speech of Calisto in Rowe 's The Fair Penitent : |
| 17 | However , if the repurchase price contained in the options is the market value at the date of exercise , it is probable that the buyer acquires both the opportunity to benefit from any increase in the value of the asset and the risk of loss due to an adverse change in its value . |
| 18 | It is probable that the agnathan globin sequences simply represent the primitive craniate sequences from which other gnathostome sequences were derived , perhaps by gene duplication . |
| 19 | It is probable that the pathogenesis of the ‘ intestinal ’ type differs from the ‘ diffuse ’ type ( defined by the Lauren Classification ) . |
| 20 | Dealing firstly with the question of risk , it is our view that if the balance of medical evidence is that the deterioration will occur , then that is more than a risk and the appropriate course is for the Court to award damages on the basis that it is probable that the deterioration will occur . |
| 21 | As neither has happened it is probable that the incidence of HIV-1 infection among homosexual men has not fallen . |
| 22 | Gonorrhoea is not a modern disease , and it is probable that the reference in Leviticus , Chapter 15 , to an ‘ issue out of flesh ’ is to gonococcal urethritis . |
| 23 | It is probable that the hook was initially a weapon , a spin-off from techniques of spearing , and gradually replaced the more primitive ‘ gorges ’ that relied on wedging rather than penetration . |
| 24 | It is probable that the Commission will suggest radical reform of the Court , or even its replacement . |
| 25 | In this example , it is probable that the background sound to the cutaway will match the rest of the sequence . |
| 26 | It is not clear how far there were similar local grievances to those of the Kentishmen in some of the other shires which were involved in the revolt , notably Sussex and Surrey , although it is probable that the resentment of the citizens of Salisbury at the powers which the bishop exercised there may have been one factor behind the murder of Ayscough ( 7 ; 147 , pp.63 , 66–8 ) . |
| 27 | The following are the main reasons for including the debtors and creditors in the asset sale : It is probable that the purchaser will have taken over all the books and records of the vendor relating to the business and the purchaser may have also taken over all of the vendor 's accounting staff . |
| 28 | It is probable that the dryopithecin apes were mainly arboreal , but it is not clear at this stage what their diet was in such an environment . |
| 29 | It is likely , however , that the coming together of the cold and the blackthorn blossom is one of accident ; and it is probable that the belief is another vestige of the primitive form of reasoning displayed in homoeopathic or imitative magic . |
| 30 | For spouses it is probable that the entry into the carer-dependant relationship is influenced by the couple 's previous marital history and relationship . |