Example sentences of "almost the [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of his more lasting memorials is the Hattersley domestic loom , which since he introduced it into the islands in 1920 has produced almost the entire output of Harris tweed . |
| 2 | Almost the entire deck of cards — sixty-six of them — were spread out on the floor before the fire . |
| 3 | If that standard was implemented in the city we would be able to designate almost the entire area of north Belfast , ’ he claimed . |
| 4 | Its highlights were the famous ‘ Vitruvian Man ’ and studies for the Battle of Anghiari , and almost the entire corpus of studies connected with this lost decoration is assembled for the exhibition . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If she was not , then she must have been almost the only member of Edinburgh political society who managed to know nothing about it — and that in itself would be a comment on her political awareness . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The spoken word was the dominant , almost the only record of events . |
| 11 | Alcester must be , therefore , almost the only town in Roman Britain where the later circuit of fortifications enclosed a greater area than that of its predecessor . |
| 12 | In fact , during my first two years at the school , this was almost the sole topic of conversation . |
| 13 | Brought on to lowland pastures in kinder climates , it gains considerably in size though in its own environment it is almost the smallest breed in Britain : only the Shetland and the Dexter of Ireland are shorter . |
| 14 | Once an élite activity , almost the exclusive prerogative of monks , it now spread to the swelling ranks of secular clerks , to servants in princely households , even to some ordinary townsmen . |
| 15 | It was almost the last item of discussion with Nik Powell before Powell 's departure . |
| 16 | Clint 's response to this is that audience surveys show that almost the same per-centage of women as men are enjoying the movie . |
| 17 | Children whose parents are not married to each other are in almost the same position as children whose parents have married each other , but some differences remain . |
| 18 | But these are superficial things , since we soon learned that Chinese faces and people have almost the same degree of individuality as western ones . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Over a lifetime these two strategies yield almost the same number of offspring but an older male clearly needs the quicker success and he takes the greater risk . |
| 22 | Gloucester Collection ( Gloucester ) In addition to numerous estate records , the collection includes the Dancey Gift of works relating to the county ( 225 volumes , more than 300 pamphlets , almost the same number of prints and paintings ) . |
| 23 | They flew almost the same number of sorties ( some 2,600 each ) and lost nearly the same number of aircraft ( 72 with 431 and 74 with 434 ) , suffering virtually identical casualties . |
| 24 | Ships were built and repaired day and night ; over 200 aircraft carriers , almost the same number of cruisers , 34 mighty battleships . |
| 25 | Now you 'll see that there are almost the same number of slots in in each . |
| 26 | ( He was to keep audiences waiting almost the same period in Rain Man many years hence . ) |
| 27 | So um sometimes the way in which abusers operate , they characterise as being somehow continuous with somehow s almost the same sort of things as as y'know kind of adult affection and love . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The University of Edinburgh has the particular advantage of offering almost the widest choice of subjects and combinations of subjects of any British university . |
| 30 | She rolled to her feet and crawled out to find almost the whole population of Riverbank gathered outside . |