Preposition: that

• man: He agreed that it was extremely improbable that two men would write the same poem, but insisted that it was not impossible.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: The planning appeal was withdrawn this week; the land is now green belt making any future development improbable.

Modifying Another Word

• infinitely: Whilst being a small town, it is infinitely improbable you will end up anywhere near where you are trying to get to.

• wildly: I also quite liked the idea of such a wildly improbable tree ( I particularly loved the leaves on what was clearly a conifer!

• inherently: This is inherently improbable, casting some doubt over the reliability of the results.

• statistically: Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

• exceedingly: You must have read about perfect credit but it is exceedingly improbable that you might have found someone with perfect credit.

• highly: Well, here we are in a highly improbable cosmos, by a highly improbable chain of lucky breaks.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: Such an explanation seems very improbable, particularly in view of the defect bands observed at the same sites.

• appear: A few of these possibilities seem possible, most currently appear highly improbable, even impossible.

• sound: Thinking about it, it all sounds rather improbable.

• look: The way in looked rather improbable, a small slit just under the lip of the bottom of the drums.

• become: Perpetual motion machines of the second kind become improbable rather than impossible.

• mean: So ' improbable ' here can only mean epistemically improbable.

Modifies a noun

• scenario: It was a stark choice between two improbable scenarios.

• victory: Vale seal improbable triumph BOWDON Vale cruised to an improbable 20-point victory at home to third placed Winsford on Saturday.

• story: We got about 20 seconds on the MDGs before the sickly and totally improbable love story took over.

• event: The conventions of farce include a series of absurd and highly improbable events.

• win: FBN Redskins Eagles Ledger - PHILADELPHIA ( AP ) - The Washington Redskins and Philadelphia Eagles are quite familiar with improbable wins and losses.

• name: We've had a number of new users lately with improbable user names - my guess is that they're spammers.