Example sentences of "almost [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If that standard was implemented in the city we would be able to designate almost the entire area of north Belfast , ’ he claimed . |
| 2 | We have in English a certain gamut of styles : we have the good Chaucerian ; almost the only style in English where ‘ softness ’ is tolerable ; we have the good Elizabethan ; … and the bad , or muzzy , Elizabethan ; and the Miltonic , which is a bombastic and rhetorical Elizabethan coming from an attempt to write English with Latin syntax . |
| 3 | Almost the only significance of Trotskyism in the 1930s was that a tenuous tradition was established which was not to materialize as a significant political influence until the 1960s . |
| 4 | So Schwarz was left alone as almost the only supporter of string theory , but now with the much higher proposed value of the string tension . |
| 5 | Medical science was not yet equipped for investigation into near-death experiences , to which we shall refer in the final chapter ; almost the only form of resuscitation with which doctors were familiar was that following near-fatal immersion in water , accompanied , as it often is , by a rapid replay of the victim 's life . |
| 6 | In fact , during my first two years at the school , this was almost the sole topic of conversation . |
| 7 | It was almost the last item of discussion with Nik Powell before Powell 's departure . |
| 8 | But these are superficial things , since we soon learned that Chinese faces and people have almost the same degree of individuality as western ones . |
| 9 | After the strike , British Coal was free to reduce its workforce from 221,000 to below 100,000 ( June 1989 ) , but was producing almost the same quantity of coal because of a 60 per cent increase in productivity ( Figure 5.6A ) . |
| 10 | In some cases the two components of a double are not genuinely associated , and merely happen to lie in almost the same line of sight as seen from Earth . |
| 11 | ( He was to keep audiences waiting almost the same period in Rain Man many years hence . ) |
| 12 | There was a Victorian air about it somehow there were , there were quite ladies who 'd kept it , almost the same sort of thing as you 'd find out in the country , country Ye Olde Elizabethan Coffee Shop type of thing you know , they they 'd be the er there was that atmosphere about it and you 'd buy lovely cakes and things like that . |
| 13 | The plain fact is that the feeble PC beep , usually allied to a tiny ( and tinny ) speaker is the laughing stock of the computer world — almost every other type of computer has sound capabilities that make the PC more to be pitied than laughed at . |
| 14 | All reports speak of the satisfaction of the British troops at finding such an unusual attitude , for most of them have been stung in almost every other theatre of war . |
| 15 | In almost every other sphere of knowledge and learning , the young child 's highest intuitions are developed and allowed to mature — in mathematics , science , art , language-work , and so forth . |
| 16 | From almost every other walk of life a way could be found to the city patriciate ; and even the Jew could come there if he would submit to conversion . |
| 17 | Unlike almost every other item of furniture , a bed should never be bought on looks alone , nor should you try to economise . |
| 18 | It was the small group of assorted vehicles which formed the basis of a collection which at its peak in the late 1960s numbered over 60 , and covered almost every possible type of cart and carriage . |
| 19 | Almost every major work of scholarship written in the past six or seven years on recent British political history has taken a far more balanced view of him than seemed likely at the time of his death . |
| 20 | Almost every square inch of land on the cliffsides is cultivated simply because there is no flat agricultural terrain . |
| 21 | … This shift of orientation from the foundation paradigm to that of inquiry as a continuous self-corrective process requires us to rethink almost every fundamental issue in philosophy . |
| 22 | Seagate has ruled out a completely new range of hard disks for almost every conceivable type of computer from palmtop and penbased systems up to mainframe and supercomputers . |
| 23 | An individual bill gets raised for almost every single item of work carried out , and everything must be checked and costed against the tender . |
| 24 | I saw almost no practical work in school . |
| 25 | It thus appears that previous knowledge of a junction had almost no overall effect on recognition sensitivity in this task . |
| 26 | The group was a cosmopolitan crowd , including a retired orthopaedic surgeon , a catering manager , and an ex-policeman , as well as a housewife with almost no previous experience of woodworking . |
| 27 | At the same time , despite the popular support for many of the activities of the provisionals north of the border , there is almost no popular support for terrorist activities against the established government in the South . |
| 28 | Almost a shy sort of laugh , Carrie thought , though it could n't be . |
| 29 | By the end of 1981 , she seemed almost a Prime Minister at bay . |
| 30 | sending tapes to the A&R departments is almost a total waste of time . |