Example sentences of "almost [vb pp] the [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time the C C P had almost completed the destruction of feudalism in the countryside in the north of China . |
| 2 | The reader might wonder why paper money has almost superseded the use of metal coins when even one coin has a greater value in metal than the largest banknote has as a piece of paper . |
| 3 | Yet the irony was that there was no support in Cabinet for the proposals and they had almost reached the point of rejection when the leak took place . |
| 4 | Striving for influence almost submerged the dialectic of influence and agitation except for the one brief but massive burst of petitioning in 1814 on suppression of the international slave trade . |
| 5 | Firstly , donkeys began to be used in the draft capacity , which was not too serious a blow , but the advent of the train almost doomed the breed to extinction . |
| 6 | The result is that there is no coherent and sustained statement of the classical Greek or Athenian case for democracy ; while the case against it has almost monopolized the attention of posterity . |