Example sentences of "almost [adv] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is at its most extreme for lung cancer , which is an almost entirely avoidable cause of death ( i.e. it is strongly associated with smoking ) . |
| 2 | This trend gives considerable cause for concern as lung cancer is an almost totally avoidable source of mortality . |
| 3 | THERE are some movie stars in the minor league who are held in almost as great affection by film fans as the major ones . |
| 4 | I felt an almost unbearably painful sense of beauty and order — painful because I could not imagine it would prevail . |
| 5 | I had been sitting at the table housed in the living room bay window , trying to write a paper for a tutorial the next day , but Gavin and Janice had chosen to punctuate their highly audible coupling sessions ( in what the more tenacious core-areas of my long-term memory still sporadically insisted had once been my bedroom ) with an almost equally noisy episode of tortilla chip eating . |
| 6 | In the previous chapter ( p.41 ) it was argued that this was the period when a major ideological stress of antislavery was its embodiment of the national interest across class and denomination , and such meetings offered dramatic demonstration of aristocratic support ( the Duke of Bedford at Woburn ) , ‘ the elite of the town , churchmen and dissenters ’ ( at Dunstable ) and caught up audiences , already stirred by ‘ an intensity of feeling on the fate of the Reform Bill ’ , into an almost equally excited interest in emancipation . |
| 7 | Past world-wide experience does seem to show that there is almost invariably more oil in oil discoveries ( see Oil Reserves section ) than is originally supposed . |
| 8 | On April 4th. , Charles II issued a Declaration containing promises designed to make his restoration seem an almost irresistibly attractive proposition to parliament . |
| 9 | Even four successive nights seemed an almost too generous slice of happiness , and on that fourth night , with the waning moonlight glittering on the sea and the crickets noisy in the hayfield on the other side of the wall , she gazed sadly up at him and asked the question that had been uppermost in their minds for some time . |
| 10 | ‘ Lexy ’ , that was right — was almost certainly some kind of employee of Luke 's . |