Example sentences of "almost [adv] [verb] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old Minister of Health , 1949–64 , was responsible to Parliament directly for the hospital services , being almost wholly provided by the taxpayer , and indirectly for the health and welfare services provided partly out of the rates and partly out of taxes by local authorities . |
| 2 | Their grievances were almost totally ignored by the government and thus since the government suppressed almost any step taken collectively by the workers to improve their economic position , the political aims of the workers became dominant over the economic goals . |
| 3 | The scene for the election to the Constitutional Convention was formally set by the British Government when it published its White Paper " The Northern Ireland Constitution " ( see above page 8 ) which was almost immediately followed by the passing of the Northern Ireland Act 1974 on 17 July . |
| 4 | Almost exclusively inspired by the essence rather than seduced by the charm of this region . |
| 5 | Vadim Perfilyev , the Foreign Ministry spokesman , said yesterday that the contested region of Nagorny Karabakh , at the heart of the Azeri-Armenian conflict , was almost completely paralysed by the blockade . |
| 6 | It is almost completely obscured by the tree which surrounds it and hides the light under its foliage . |
| 7 | These changes induced by platelet activating factor can be almost completely reversed by the pretreatment with highly specific and potent platelet activating factor receptor blocker , TCV-309 . |
| 8 | Marx and Engels and , for that matter , Morgan and their other sources , were in no way peculiar in this belief ; they were representatives of a current of opinion that was almost universally accepted by the end of the nineteenth-century . |
| 9 | At Lord 's , England were almost certainly saved by the weather . |
| 10 | America 's interest in the Pacific , dating from the end of the eighteenth century , was almost certainly fired by the telling in dockside bars and merchants ' cafés of gaudily embroidered tales of the explorations of Captain Cook : why , the mariners of Boston and New York wondered out loud , should the Ocean that washed their continent 's western shores be traversed and charted by a navigator all the way from North Yorkshire , and by Frenchmen and Portuguese too ? |
| 11 | And her only reason for distrusting him was that she distrusted Alexander , a feeling almost certainly shared by the majority of people who had ever met him . |