Example sentences of "[prep] nearly every [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another critic who took up the moral cudgels against the ‘ spicy ’ jokes and suggestive songs described how ‘ this kind of garbage is part and parcel of the repertoire of nearly every music hall in the kingdom … it puts decency and clean-living at a discount , and it glorifies immorality all round ’ . |
| 2 | THE BUSES AND TAXIS I DETERMINED TO AVOID BECAME A CENTRAL PART OF NEARLY EVERY PAINTING . |
| 3 | The buses and taxis I determined to avoid became a central part of nearly every painting . |
| 4 | THE BUSES AND TAXIS I DETERMINED TO AVOID BECAME A CENTRAL PART OF NEARLY EVERY PAINTING . |
| 5 | The buses and taxis I determined to avoid became a central part of nearly every painting . |
| 6 | Salha was a woman of strong , open and reassuring character whose links with the women of nearly every household in Huaiwiri through her own daughters and her mother 's sisters ' descent in the women 's line ensured that she had influence in all households . |
| 7 | This partly explains the desperate desire of nearly every function in the business to be represented on the board or the management committee . |
| 8 | The incidence of nearly every illness ( including coronary heart disease ) is higher at the bottom of the organizational hierarchy . |
| 9 | The Safety Centre features full size mock-ups of nearly every danger a child could face including house fires and high speed trains . |
| 10 | I think this new ‘ cart ’ is an amalgam of nearly every pop style ! |
| 11 | Simon Patiño , the family 's patriarch , who rose from being a clerk in a mining supplies store to owner of the largest known tin deposit , accrued revenues from the manufacture of nearly every tin can and piece of tin foil and was ultimately appointed a representative of the Bolivian government in Paris . |
| 12 | Unlike nearly every microlight aircraft I 've flown to date , the power plant up front was not out of the Rotax stable . |
| 13 | She talks incessantly and seems over-enthusiastic about nearly every aspect of life — prattling on without caring much about the kind of responses she gets from other human beings around . |
| 14 | But this is a very serious matter and difficult to follow Councillor because he 's gone through nearly every point . |
| 15 | She 'd been on the floor for nearly every dance , and was having a whale of a time . |
| 16 | Well I think that we 've seen the erm tremendous growth in word processors , and this is erm an area which I feel will develop enormously , and it really would be quite possible for nearly every home to have a word processor within it . |
| 17 | During the decade 1970–80 , serious crimes recorded by the police increased for nearly every category : violence against the person rose by 136 per cent , burglary by 44 per cent , robbery by 138 per cent , theft and handling by 54 per cent and fraud and forgery by 18 per cent . |
| 18 | Nyerere 's lament could be repeated by nearly every Third World country for nearly every commodity . |
| 19 | He has a sewage horror story to tell for nearly every area of the country . |
| 20 | These days you can buy fitted furniture for nearly every room in the house — the kitchen , the bedroom and even the bathroom . |
| 21 | Peach retired in 1905 after 43 years service in a career which had taken him into nearly every part of Scotland and brought him world-wide recognition as an outstanding field geologist . |
| 22 | Many were kicked and beaten by eight or more stewards before being flung into the street : ‘ In nearly every case they were bleeding from the head and face and their clothing was badly torn … . ’ |
| 23 | If your opinion is asked , it may be gently given but , in nearly every case , it is neither right nor effective to try to end a relationship forcibly . |
| 24 | Use has thus evolved on a pragmatic basis : casual observation by the author showed that vehicles rarely crossed the junction at more than 15 km/h ; that they gave way to walkers and cyclists in nearly every case ( Figure 6.15 ) and indeed that some pedestrians failed even to bother to look for traffic before crossing . |
| 25 | In nearly every case , what is seen is a hint of something that could be , but is not . |
| 26 | In nearly every government building coats and briefcases are thoroughly searched ( as never before ) , credentials checked and rechecked by nervous guards . |
| 27 | Ideally an out-of-school visit of some kind is desirable in nearly every history study . |
| 28 | Auntie is ordinary in nearly every way , but she had one very special quality . |
| 29 | We travel back and forth all the time between Canada and England , and my husband has been in nearly every country of the world on business . |
| 30 | He ‘ caught numerous examples , marked and gave them their liberty , in order to ascertain whether the individuals which were flying round the ship at nightfall , were the same that were similarly engaged at daylight in the morning after a night 's run of 120 miles , and which in nearly every instance proved to be the case . ’ |