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Example sentences for "probable that"

  • It is probable that in these cases the males are thus rendered more conspicuous, and more easily seen by the females whilst flying about in the dusk.

  • As the males and females of many animals differ somewhat in habits and are exposed in different degrees to danger, it is probable that in many cases, more of one sex than of the other are habitually destroyed.

  • Then John told the story of Mr Crawley,--a considerable portion of the story; and in his telling of it, I think it probable that he put more weight upon the necessity of his mission to Italy than it could have fairly been made to bear.

  • She thought it probable that if she could keep Siph close to her, Mrs Thorne, who always managed those things herself, might apportion her out to be led to dinner by her good-natured friend.

  • It is probable that if the tips had been cauterised for the length of a whole millimeter, all signs of apheliotropism would have disappeared.

  • The cotyledons of some few species are sensitive to a touch; but it is probable that this is only an indirect result of the foregoing kinds of sensitiveness, for there is no reason to believe that they profit by moving when touched.

  • It is probable that if the tips had been protected by grease for a length of 2 mm.

  • The trenches behind fired wildly in the darkness, and it is probable that as many of their own men as of ours were hit by their rifle fire.

  • Moving over a flat country with plenty of flanking room, it is probable that he would have been in Bloemfontein by Christmas and at the Vaal River late in January.

  • This little moth has a sickle-shaped appendage to its mouth-parts which occurs in no other Lepidopteron, and which is used for pushing the yellow pollen into the opening of the pistil, thus fertilising the flower.

  • Our ultimate aim is to find a solution of the problem as to the cause of the origin of species.

  • That this was the logical consequence of his book Darwin himself had long felt.

  • He says: "These several considerations alone render it probable that variability of every kind is directly or indirectly caused by changed conditions of life.

  • But it is probable that, while nutrition may be one of the main causes of mutability, environment may play the chief part in the decisions ascribed to natural selection.

  • It is probable that hardly a change of any kind affects either parent, without some mark being left on the germ.

  • These several considerations alone render it probable that variability of every kind is directly or indirectly caused by changed conditions of life.

  • I will first give in detail all the facts which I have been able to collect, rendering it probable that climate, food, etc.

  • Stephen's Greek name, and his belonging to the Hellenistic part of the Church, make it probable that he had never seen Jesus during His earthly life.

  • He bears a name which makes it probable that he was not a Palestinian Jew, but one of the many who, of Jewish descent, had lived in Gentile lands and contracted Gentile habits and associations.

  • It is probable that he was known by reputation to Hiawatha, and not unlikely that they were related.

  • The latter is the meaning as at present understood; but it is probable that, in earlier days, the panoply of horns was really placed on the head of the newly inducted councillor.

  • It is probable that in ancient times the wampum was left permanently with the family of the deceased, as a memorial of the departed chief.

  • We shall not see so clearly as he sees, for we have not his inner light; and it is probable that even he does not see the road at all, but only the goal, a single point of light shining across a gulf of darkness.

  • Two years was the time mentioned as suitable for an interregnum, and it is probable that it was the intention of Isabella, although not of Ferdinand, to restore Columbus to his office at the end of that time.

  • With the barb-pigeon, for instance, which very rarely produces a blue bird, it is probable that there is a latent tendency in each generation to produce blue plumage.

  • At the commencement of my observations it seemed to me probable that a careful study of domesticated animals and of cultivated plants would offer the best chance of making out this obscure problem.

  • Hence, it is probable that in some parts of the world whole formations have been completely denuded, with not a wreck left behind.

  • It is probable that we are not meant to know anything about the future.

  • It is probable that I made a mistake in going to Sutton," he admitted.

  • It is probable that he did not believe in the immortality of the soul.

  • This success became so probable that in January last I employed a reliable agent to visit Mexico and report to me the actual condition and prospects of the contending parties.

  • If they manage matters with a large force as well as they do with a small one, as it is probable that they do, see what an advantage it gives to them.

  • It is probable that William's insolent message was meant to have the effect of inducing Harold to march against him.

  • If they are well led they may attack us to-night, for they must know of our approach, and will think it probable that we shall, being so near our own border, be at first careless.

  • It is probable that if my husband had been able to bear a long railway journey, we might have accepted the hospitality so kindly offered in the following letter:-- WEST LODGE.

  • My aunt, however, had been listening at the door, thinking it probable that I should be in danger, and she now opened it and told me to come away.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    actual experience; assistant superintendent; brave deeds; breathless suspense; but little; double consciousness; good shepherd; having once; having three; independent treasury; moderate weather; much inferior; perpetual snow; probable that; reflex actions; religious beliefs; rheumatic fever; runaway slave; serious matter; stand till; tissue cells; yonder hill