Example sentences of "almost [adv] [verb] by a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost entirely surrounded by a circle of water that formed part of the original fortifications , and still linked to its neighbours and the port of Zeebrugge about eight miles away by canals , Bruges ' attraction is that its medieval architecture is remarkably intact . |
| 2 | Curriculum history ( still quite thin on the ground ) may stress prominent innovators or pioneering national laws or documents , but many classroom practitioners are usually hardly aware that their practice is being slowly , almost subliminally modified by a variety of external pressures . |
| 3 | The application of the Woolwich principle in the present case might well create no administrative difficulties inasmuch the payment was made under protest and was almost immediately followed by an application for judicial review . |
| 4 | So far its class-based line has been almost exclusively animated by a critique of race awareness training — a practical strategy which has been thrown up in the grating between the first two tendencies . |
| 5 | Under each of the three windows was a working table with four chairs ; one table was almost completely covered by a model of the new Laboratory . |
| 6 | Direct advice is almost never offered by a therapist . |