Example sentences of "almost [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real search space is almost the cover of the naive one . |
| 2 | Exhausted , she had slept almost the clock round that first night , and often found herself dozing during the day . |
| 3 | This is almost the position in which the Liberal party has found itself in recent elections ( see Table 5.2 ) . |
| 4 | With the same amp settings the low hum single coils sing with almost the character of a Gibson P90 . |
| 5 | It is in five movements , and is graced by a major role for the solo oboe , giving it almost the character of a concerto . |
| 6 | But whereas in the early 1920s , cheapie production had constituted almost the entirety of British filmmaking , in the 1930s there existed a more ambitious production sector running in parallel . |
| 7 | Many still survive , the pedimented Marriott House in Westgate , and , best of all , almost the entirety of North Street with Nash 's Doric Market House of 1807 as its focus . |
| 8 | One species that has done this is Volvox , a hollow sphere , almost the size of a pinhead , constructed from a large number of cells , each with a flagellum . |
| 9 | In the province of Alberta alone , public timberlands almost the size of the UK have been leased to a dozen firms . |
| 10 | The expedition was invited because Siberian oil companies plan to extend their operations north from the existing centre at Noyabrsk into the Krasnoselkup region , which covers an area of 106,000 square kilometres , almost the size of England . |
| 11 | Fifty-three years old when he came to the throne , and crippled by the kick of a horse in his youth , what could he do against all these turbulent and forceful lords , his brother Albany , his son Rothesay , and these Black Douglases who bore almost the prestige of a royal dynasty ? |
| 12 | Do you see chemistry as being almost the centre of science ? |
| 13 | For instance , building-society deposits , bank cash accounts , and National Savings holdings all rose sharply throughout the period , especially with high interest rates prevailing for almost the whole of the 1970s . |
| 14 | for centuries they have stifled almost the whole of humanity in the name of a so-called spiritual experience . |
| 15 | And instead of distancing herself from her subject with the language of ‘ scientific ’ detachment , her message is one of passionate commitment to the primates she has studied for almost the whole of her adult life . |
| 16 | Along almost the whole of one wall was trained a cultivated blackberry bush . |
| 17 | Before turning to the decline of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ , however , we need to sketch it at its absolute zenith , in the years when Blitzkrieg victories brought almost the whole of Europe under Hitler 's command . |
| 18 | After all , almost the whole of industrial Britain became a controlled , smoke free area under the Clean Air Acts , of which the current government is so proud some 30 years later . |
| 19 | One chapter of this book is based on written autobiographies , and almost the whole of the rest on tape-recorded life story interviews . |
| 20 | After the eruption , it was found that almost the whole of one side of the cone had disappeared , and it looked as if a giant bite had been taken out of it . |
| 21 | Among the many mercies vouchsafed to our land during the year now nearly expired have been respite from famine and pestilence and preservation from Civil War , while anarchy and bloodshed have prevailed over almost the whole of Europe . |
| 22 | Love has inspired more mystical utterances than any other human emotions ; for some saints and mystics , it has been almost the whole of religion . |
| 23 | Unlike almost the whole of the rest of Roman law , trusts had by the end of the classical period been actionable in cognitio for centuries . |
| 24 | The inclusion of special relativistic accounts of thermodynamics and electromagnetism go far to bear out the author 's claim that special relativity provides ‘ a foundation on which almost the whole of modern physical theory has been built ’ . |
| 25 | She was to discover that she could see for miles from the attic windows — almost the whole of Bristol . |
| 26 | The road in question was to be the new North Parade , and — just to be sure — the Trustees wanted permission if necessary to knock down almost the whole of Pig Street and a lot else besides , including : |
| 27 | But these activities occupied him , one may well think , because he could see he had painted himself into a corner : the purely literary reason for not finishing The Silmarillion is deducible not only from that work itself , but from almost the whole of Tolkien 's professional career . |
| 28 | Almost the whole of Mark 's Gospel is found in Matthew and Luke taken together . |
| 29 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
| 30 | He captured almost the whole of the Bukovina , and the important towns of Lutsk , Dubno and Czernowitz fell to his troops . |