Example sentences of "almost the [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in five movements , and is graced by a major role for the solo oboe , giving it almost the character of a concerto . |
| 2 | One species that has done this is Volvox , a hollow sphere , almost the size of a pinhead , constructed from a large number of cells , each with a flagellum . |
| 3 | Of course , people do act out of character — but not often in a matter involving almost the whole of a man 's private fortune . |
| 4 | of the research undertaken by the Defence Research Agency is subcontracted from the Ministry of Defence to universities and industry — indeed , almost the whole of the development work goes to industry . |
| 5 | One chapter of this book is based on written autobiographies , and almost the whole of the rest on tape-recorded life story interviews . |
| 6 | Unlike almost the whole of the rest of Roman law , trusts had by the end of the classical period been actionable in cognitio for centuries . |
| 7 | The original windows had been replaced by two long windows occupying almost the whole of the end wall . |
| 8 | This form of ‘ observation ’ has very severe limitations not only because the teacher has a principal role in the lesson but because that role is likely to demand almost the whole of the teacher 's attention , particularly at the most important moments . |
| 9 | For almost the whole of the period under review , the prevalent and strongly held belief was that Britain , in common with other major economies , had climbed out of the economic slough of the interwar years and was set on a broad and permanent path of rising prosperity and full employment . |
| 10 | He says that when a jet of ‘ inflammable air ’ [ hydrogen ] was burned in a receiver filled with ‘ common air ’ … ‘ the common air is contracted a full fifth of its original dimensions ; immediately after the flame is extinguished , there appears through almost the whole of the receiver , a fine powdery substance like a whitish cloud ’ . |
| 11 | His work included the completion of the choir and almost the whole of the antechapel , with all the high vaults , which he built by contract from 1512 . |
| 12 | Energetically , the spring is almost the opposite of the pendulum . |
| 13 | Influenced by considerations such as these , successive leaderships had attempted since almost the beginning of the war to extricate their forces from the conflict . |
| 14 | In the arts it has become over the last century not the exception but almost the rule for the innovator at the crucial time of forming his style to find something in another culture from which he can learn , an influence not superficial , as in eighteenth century chinoiserie , but radical ( the Impressionists and the Japanese woodcut , Debussy and the Javanese gamelan , Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese architecture , the Imagists and Japanese and Chinese poetry , the Cubists and African sculpture , Henry Moore and the Mexican Chac Mool , Brecht and Chinese theatre , Artaud and Balinese dance ) . |
| 15 | HE SAID : ‘ Within seconds it had grown to 300ft high , almost the height of a tower block , and seemed to be rolling towards us , glowing brighter all the time . |
| 16 | I remember two very special expeditions to the top of the Heath — not very far from our house which stood at almost the height of the cross on St Paul 's Cathedral , a fact that was emblazoned on the house above us in the East Heath Road . |
| 17 | It was the race that ended the pre-eminence of the distance runners in world track and field , almost the end of an era . |
| 18 | Almost the end of the winter season now , but a freshness about everything . |
| 19 | It 's almost the end of the road for the 900 people who 've worked on widening a 13-mile stretch of the M5 between junctions 6 and 8 . |
| 20 | It was almost the end of the fishing season . |
| 21 | The last verse of Joyce 's song , ‘ Time ’ , was almost the end of the show : |
| 22 | The Third Class ‘ Parly ’ half of the Excursion Return was issued until almost the closing of the line . |
| 23 | Christ , he really can smite the ball almost the length of the pitch , marvelled Perdita . |
| 24 | His breathing was almost the panting of a hunting dog . |
| 25 | But this is almost the reverse of the case . |