Example sentences of "almost the [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 . |