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 . |