Example sentences of "almost [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A comprehensive software package allows almost complete software control of the instrument including the option of software controlled slits , grating turret , and control of the additive/subtractive option . |
| 2 | Dartmoor is one of the few examples in Britain of an almost complete Bronze Age landscape . |
| 3 | For those who are familiar with Lewis 's literary persona , as for the much smaller number of people who knew him in life , his acceptance of an orthodox Christian position seems in an almost literal sense fitting . |
| 4 | It takes about 20 minutes to work and can give almost total pain relief . |
| 5 | In his survey of the condition of the labouring poor in 1797 , Eden contrasted the persistent degree of self-sufficiency in the north with an almost total market dependence on the part of southern labourers . |
| 6 | The UK accounts for almost half group turnover , and the European operations , mainly France and Germany ‘ are not suffering in the same way as the UK , ’ Mr Stephens said . |
| 7 | She arrived in Bamford a little after eleven and parked in the almost empty car park to the rear of the supermarket . |
| 8 | I found the whisky , let myself out of the cellar and locked it , turned all the lights out , gave Mrs McSpadden the bottle , accepted a belated new-year kiss from her , then made my way out through the kitchen and the corridor and the crowded hall where the music sounded loud and people were laughing , and out through the now almost empty entrance hall and down the steps of the castle and down the driveway and down to Gallanach , where I walked along the esplanade — occasionally having to wave or say ‘ Happy New Year ’ to various people I did n't know — until I got to the old railway pier and then the harbour , where I sat on the quayside , legs dangling , drinking my whisky and watching a couple of swans glide on black , still water , to the distant sound of highland jigs coming from the Steam Packet Hotel , and singing and happy-new-year shouts echoing in the streets of the town , and the occasional sniff as my nose watered in sympathy with my eyes . |
| 9 | The small company of members looked completely dwarfed in the vast , cavernous space of the almost empty concert hall . |
| 10 | Adequate nutrition is particularly important because TB was an almost universal childhood infection and can be unusually long-lived . |
| 11 | The Industrial Revolution , which created a vast demand for urban housing , made Welsh slate an almost universal roofing material , and by the middle of the nineteenth century some 16,000 men were working in the quarries , producing roofing slates called ‘ duchesses ’ and ‘ countesses ’ , among other titled ladies , according to their size . |
| 12 | At the bottom was a large , almost deserted caravan park which , being private property , I had to skirt round to find a track through the rolling scrub-dotted dunes that fringe the beach all the way to Burry Holm . |
| 13 | She took them into the almost deserted coffee lounge . |
| 14 | It is only when we reach old age , whenever that is , that we can experience and reflect upon an almost entire life cycle . |
| 15 | Ceramic cook tops can give the semblance of an almost unbroken work surface , and so do the new magnetic induction units that look like tiles , but do not heat up because they use magnetic energy to cook food by energising molecules both in the food and the pan . |
| 16 | The Simonova was in almost perfect space equilibrium — like the platforms it was following a geostationary path almost thirty-six thousand kilometres above the equator of Tarvaras . |
| 17 | Our cruising grounds afford an almost constant sailing breeze and long hours of clear sunshine throughout the summer months . |
| 18 | Thus such a section placed in front of any number of correctly terminated constant-k or m-derived T-sections presents an almost constant input resistance of over 85% of the pass band . |
| 19 | With regard to the UK , a recent test by Winters using the " Almost Ideal Demand System " , led to the conclusion that the British trade balance had worsened by £3.1 billion and UK output had fallen by 1.5 per cent resulting from joining the CU of the EC ( Winters 1987 ) . |
| 20 | 6 hours drive from the almost uninhabited mountain region , lies the world 's highest capital . |
| 21 | With high topsides , an almost hard chine form and a sail wardrobe which consisted of just three sails from Lymington-based Pete Sanders — the main , a 0.75oz spinnaker and a 100 per cent overlapping jib — she met many of her owner 's requirements . |
| 22 | When the book did appear , in beautiful , almost square duodecimo format , it was adorned with a naked figure , the hero , embossed on the end board . |
| 23 | By the time Follow That Camel went before the cameras as the third ‘ Carry On ’ picture that year — filmed ‘ on location ’ with Camber Sands on the then almost freezing Sussex coast , doubling somewhat unconvincingly for the North African desert — the distribution company for the ‘ Carry Ons ’ had changed from Anglo-Amalgamated to the Rank Organization . |
| 24 | But the shadow Chancellor , Gordon Brown , announcing a series of what he termed job rallies in Tory-held marginal seats over the coming weeks , said almost 100,000 job training places had been cut since John Major became Prime Minister . |
| 25 | Not many years ago , it seemed that almost all readability research , and almost all research in linguistics confined itself to the analysis of units no larger than a sentence . |
| 26 | Although manual focus is a useful feature , almost all camcorder operation is done with the lens set to auto focus ( AF ) . |
| 27 | When , in 1988 , the School Boards Act provided for almost all education authority schools in Scotland to have their own boards , major aims were greater involvement of parents in school affairs , increased contact between school and the community , and the progressive freeing of education authorities from routine school administration . |
| 28 | Our impression is that almost all contract computer staff are voluntarily working on this basis . |
| 29 | Radioactive dust has settled on the Earth , killing off almost all animal life . |
| 30 | The same is true of almost all pattern knitting , from the most heavily textured designs to really delicate lace . |