Example sentences of "almost [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's almost entirely a matter for management , ’ says Martin Taylor , deputy chairman of Hanson , the industrial conglomerate and one of Britain 's biggest companies . |
| 2 | In both cases the problem of strength and weakness is almost entirely a matter of surface smoothness . |
| 3 | Legitimacy , then , is almost entirely a matter of sentiment . |
| 4 | After his first book , A London Farrago , appeared in 1921 , he published almost annually a volume of satire or humour , but he had a parallel career as a biographer , writing vigorous and scholarly lives of writers like Villon ( 1928 ) , Ronsard ( 1944 ) , Rabelais ( 1957 ) , Molière ( 1959 ) , and Cervantes ( 1962 ) ; studies of Louis XI ( King Spider , 1930 ) , and Charles V ( Emperor of the West , 1932 ) . |
| 5 | It is almost always a lack of storage space , or the fact that the file is dynamic and so can not be loaded in a single operation , that prevents self-indexing , and not the time taken to carry out the calculations . |
| 6 | The presence of free ammonia or of protein material is almost always an indication of contamination of the water with sewage or trade effluents , such as gas liquor . |
| 7 | Did you ever have the feeling that you were almost more a part of management that you were a representative of the workforce ? |
| 8 | However , this is almost more a problem of consistency . |
| 9 | In East Punjab these were usually the same man , almost invariably a Brahmin by caste . |