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Example sentences for "probably owing"

  • But great was their chagrin when they found that James, probably owing to his early education under John Knox in Scotland, was more ready to put the laws in force against the Papists than to give them greater toleration.

  • The unequal prices of, in different places, probably owing to the law of settlements, 59.

  • That it has hitherto increased them so little, is probably owing to the restraints which it everywhere labours under.

  • He spoke very briefly, probably owing to ill health, which beset him through many weeks of that year.

  • I threw a stone down, at which he did not growl, but, probably owing to the flickering light of the burning grass, he seemed to move, so we agreed to leave him till next morning.

  • Probably owing to the scarcity of hinds, even the best stags appear never to be able to collect more than two or three, not counting calves, which seem always to run with their dams for a year.

  • It is calculated, however, to alarm a timid patient, and it is probably owing largely to this fact that it has fallen into disuse.

  • Alum has been used with success, as has tannin, probably owing to their local action on the mucous membrane.

  • The hair on the tails of the bulls is generally of a fine glossy black; but the brush at the end of the cows' tails is always of a rusty brown, probably owing to being stained with their urine.

  • And on Marble Island I have shot them when they were equal in flavour to a rabbit; probably owing to their feeding entirely on eggs and young birds; but near Churchill River they are as rank as train-oil.

  • This quicker exhaustion of the spirit of animation is probably owing to a less quantity of it residing in the acting fibres, which therefore more frequently require a supply from the nerves, which belong to them.

  • Wounds of certain regions, as, for instance, scalp wounds, are especially liable to develop erysipelas, but this is probably owing to the imperfect antiseptic treatment or delay in applying it.

  • This is probably owing to the presence of septic conditions, as the head is generally dirtier than other parts of the body, and slight wounds especially are neglected.

  • This day no ice was seen, probably owing to the thick hazy weather.

  • All the land near the coast, between and about these capes, is exceedingly barren; probably owing to its being so much exposed to the cold southerly winds.

  • It is probably owing to the escape of the elastic vapours from these spiracula that the modern earthquakes are of such small extent compared with those of remote antiquity, of which the vestiges remain all over the globe.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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