Example sentences of "an almost [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rule operates as an almost complete bar on over-the-counter ( OTC ) futures transactions for a private customer . |
| 2 | The members of the Royal Agricultural Society of England ( founded 1838 ) were invited to submit diseased animals to the College , but this met with an almost complete lack of response . |
| 3 | The harder they are blown the more will the horns and tuba part company , until in ff there is an almost complete lack of blend . |
| 4 | As a result of the secrecy which has traditionally surrounded donor insemination there is an almost complete lack of knowledge of how donor assisted families fare as the children grow up . |
| 5 | Also , the USA exported its long experience with trying to deal with its own soil erosion problems , as a part of foreign policy to its sphere of influence in Latin America in the 1950s , where there had been an almost complete lack of government concern over soil erosion . |
| 6 | An evening out of jobs between regions would be the first step in what , in the longer term , should aim to be an almost complete transfer of government jobs from areas of full employment into areas with the highest levels of unemployment . |
| 7 | Burgeoning nature symbolises the creative process : in ‘ Out of Egypt ’ , for instance , branches bending towards the ground create an almost complete circle of growth and nurture . |
| 8 | Addition of phosphatidylethanolamine caused an almost complete shift of cholesterol to the vesicular phase . |
| 9 | Having to hastily reorganise the backs late in the week , Haslemere expected to be short of their usual firepower , but on the day this was further confounded by the late arrival of another two players and an almost complete breakdown in discipline . |
| 10 | judges enjoy an almost complete immunity in respect of acts — even corrupt and malicious acts , happily rare in our history — done by them in their judicial capacity . |
| 11 | The two pieces are impressively realistic and , apart from a missing muzzle on one of the bucks , in an almost flawless state of preservation . |
| 12 | A casual browse through the monthly newsletter of the NHS Management Executive reveals an almost obsessive preaching of quality lessons to health service managers . |
| 13 | In a career that took him to Genoa where he played for the local side Sampdoria , he assumed an almost Italianate sense of style . |
| 14 | Digging into the pocket of her jacket , she produced a long silver whistle and placed it firmly between her lips , and Fran had to swallow an almost hysterical gurgle of laughter as she saw the expression of near-disbelief on Luke Calder 's face . |
| 15 | Such experience may be a highly visible educational programme , with recognised qualifications although no specified organisational outcome ; it may be a training event focused on particular skills and understandings ; it may be an almost unrecognised flash of insight at the workplace , prompted consciously or unconsciously by others . |
| 16 | Her reply was an almost audible sigh of relief . |
| 17 | There was an almost audible sigh of relief around the world that someone had been caught tampering with the dictionary . |
| 18 | There was an almost audible hiss of sisterhood , a collective shrinking from the flesh of the enemy . |
| 19 | The new decision also sets an almost negligible threshold of collaboration . |
| 20 | To the chagrin of rationalists such as John Stuart Mill , the family , not the individual , was regarded as the basic unit of society and increasingly a substitute for lost faith , so that even positivists like Frederic Harrison , who rejected supernatural religions , supported an almost Catholic orthodoxy of marriage as the gateway to family responsibility . |
| 21 | As a result , despite the potentially strong bargaining hand which the pre-war boom gave to skilled labour , workers sustained an almost unbroken record of failure in strike action . |
| 22 | Leave , where necessary , is fairly readily granted before the hearing , unless the other party can not be compensated in costs , which is an almost invariable term of leave being granted . |
| 23 | Although use of the IUD and condom has increased , especially among educated women , the rise of sterilization is much more important as it marks an almost certain end to childbearing ( table 4.3 ) . |
| 24 | From the small and poor downland churches like Coombes to the grander Wealden settlements , there is an almost uniform simplicity of styling , the product as much of local pride and parochialism as of poverty in the small communities , often with limited building materials . |
| 25 | One eye may contain 15,000 elements , providing images that together constitute an almost hemispherical field of view . |
| 26 | Mathematics , minimalism , and an almost Roman sense of order are the hallmarks of Ungers ' works — in 1992 at the Philomene Magers gallery he installed a horizontal and a vertical beam , made of wood and plexiglass respectively : the x and y axes of an imaginary co-ordinate system . |
| 27 | The engine 's natural urgency is efficiently harnessed by closely stacked intermediate ratios and a manageable 22.5mph/1000rpm in fifth , which strikes an almost perfect compromise between flexibility and refinement . |
| 28 | Yet , with its odd mix of introversion and extroversion and overbearing sense that the adult world is conspiring against the youth of today , it manages to create an almost perfect distillation of adolescence . |
| 29 | By the early 1970s there was an almost tangible atmosphere of guilt by association . |
| 30 | Amnesty International , whose first permitted mission to Sri Lanka since 1982 had taken place in June , published on Sept. 10 a report criticizing the security forces for thousands of killings , and for routinely murdering suspected Tamil guerrillas " with an almost total sense of immunity " . |