Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] almost [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The range is from 5.7 to 8.6 , so that for almost all the time it is easy to see with binoculars . |
| 2 | Transducer elements based on standard electrochemical principles have dominated biosensor research , and much more is known about their make-up than for almost any other transducer system . |
| 3 | The proportion of fat deposited on your body will reduce in a most dramatic way , much more so than with almost any other diet and exercise programme . |
| 4 | Social responsibility is a concept that in almost all cases enables one to reconcile one 's own views with the needs of society , but it is a complex idea and particularly so for the professional librarian . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , most people still find it harder to get compensation from drug firms for errant products than from almost any other type of manufacturer . |
| 6 | The welcome is personal and genuine and the breakfast may be fresher and taste better than in almost any hotel . |
| 7 | Prices can not remain at this level for long , but potential buyers can be assured that their money will be safer in one of these than in almost any other car . |
| 8 | The need for proper regulation is greater in the water industry than in almost any other . |
| 9 | At Augusta , more than at almost any other golf course , disaster stalks the champions , particularly on the greens — which are said to be in fine , fiery form this year . |
| 10 | The West , it was believed , was now in a better position relative to the USSR than at almost any time since the start of the Cold War . |
| 11 | William 's accession to the English throne marked a return to the attitude of hostility to France , and for almost all of the following 125 years England was either at war with France or preparing for war with France or recovering from war with France . |
| 12 | This kind of technology would be useful wherever diagrams need to be drawn with notes , and for almost any type of salesman . |
| 13 | The 1981 Act in its basic conception found — and finds — favour , I believe , with the overwhelming majority of those in the field , and with almost all others , too . |
| 14 | Throughout the greater part of these districts the supply of water is intimately mixed , the pipes of both companies going down all the streets and into almost all the courts and alleys . |
| 15 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 16 | The pectoralis minor lies underneath the pectoralis major and in almost all cases any reference to the pecs means the pectoralis major . |
| 17 | Overshadowing ( the observation that the associative strength acquired by a target stimulus A is reduced when another event , B , is also present on reinforced trials ) and blocking ( the observation that prior reinforced training with B can effectively eliminate acquisition to A when AB trials are given ) are primary characteristics of conditioning , found in all training procedures and in almost all organisms capable of classical conditioning . |
| 18 | Not surprisingly , it is for these displays of nature 's most powerful forces at work that volcanoes are chiefly known , and in almost all primitive societies they have been regarded with fear and identified with deities and evil spirits . |
| 19 | This is partly because of the purposes which it now serves ; it is the expected language in the education system , in other social institutions ( such as the courts and business ) and in almost all published writing , and it has also spread far beyond its historical base in Britain and is used as an international language in many parts of the world . |
| 20 | Crimes of violence , for example , are by and large one poor person hitting another poor person — and in almost half these instances it is a man hitting his wife or lover … the more vulnerable a person is economically and socially the more likely it is that both working class and white-collar crime will occur against them ( Matthews and Young , 1986 , p. 23 ) . |
| 21 | 60% ( 265 ) of all those affected were concerned or worried about their incontinence , and in almost half incontinence limited their daily social activities . |
| 22 | But in almost all these cases the respective genes have not been located or isolated , and the DNA defects are thus totally unknown . |
| 23 | The minutes will be entirely concerned with just these items , but in almost all meetings something else is happening . |
| 24 | But in almost all instances lie recovered himself in the process of revision , took out the passages which were rhythmically inert or altered words and images which did not sustain the underlying cadence and structure . |
| 25 | The Canongate sample is not necessarily typical , but in almost all these families , all children , boys or girls , gave a substantial part of their earnings to their parents , never less than half and usually more . |
| 26 | But in almost all other matters , they were bound to a higher law . |
| 27 | It is as well to be clear in this way that you are giving priority to suspense because , of course , there are elements of suspense not only in almost all crime fiction but in almost all fiction of any sort . |
| 28 | They are both 11 = 13 , but in almost all other ways they differ . |
| 29 | The most familiar of these are in the areas of physical access and transportation , but in almost any aspects of life an impaired person is likely to confront a disabling dimension . |
| 30 | The ‘ magico-religious ’ relates to the encounter with perceived human limits ( some of them , as seen by others , historically determinate , but to almost all there and then , and to many always , intractable ) and the consequent making of images or stories in that distinguishable area . |