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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Direct advice is almost never offered by a therapist . |