Douwe de Boer, a Dutch scientist hired to work on Contador's defense, said the Spanish federation had probably considered the recent spate of doping cases based on contaminated meat when deciding Contador's case.
As the old-timers in the ward, they try to help newcomers fresh from the battlefields survive, and although most of them have probably considered suicide, the one man everyone shuns is a young lieutenant whose ruined jaw, rumor has it, was self-inflicted.
Most scientists have probably considered leaving academia to set up a company, only to find that one of the key ingredients to making it--a good idea, a market for it, and perhaps above all, a willingness to take some risks--was missing.
A researcher has observed female dragonflies doing something that many human women have probably considered when confronted with unwanted male attention: faking death.
She is not a prostitute - has probably never even considered it - but she accepts.
Stanton and Glavine had previously stated that they would have probably not considered the Mets had Valentine remained the manager.
Alex Henderson, tax partner at PwC, said: "Many people affected by the child benefit cuts have probably not considered what the true cost will be to them over time.
The reality was, however, that women such as Knox and Leighton had probably never considered that their unguarded photographs and comments would have a wider circulation than friends and acquaintances..
After the Columbia disaster in 2003, he said the seven crew members who died on the mission had probably not considered themselves heroes but rather simply "the luckiest people on earth".
But then again, had I read about the illusion of knowledge, I would have probably never considered taking on such a project.
