Example sentences of "almost [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is almost the position in which the Liberal party has found itself in recent elections ( see Table 5.2 ) . |
| 2 | Monarchy was almost the rule in Europe , which had many republicans , but few republics . |
| 3 | There is no doubt that almost every officer in the RUC , a largely Protestant force , would be opposed to the Anglo-Irish accord . |
| 4 | Quot homines , tot sententiae : almost every worker in the field has his pet variation , which suits him ad his computer better than any other . |
| 5 | I carried on with the Debenham players getting small parts almost every year in the pantomimes , they were n't major acting roles but for a nine , ten , eleven year old child they sufficed . |
| 6 | One of these was the diagrams that bear his name , which are the basis of almost every calculation in particle physics . |
| 7 | Bees recognise the Sun by an equally innate criterion — its low ratio of ultraviolet to visible light — so that a dim , 10 degree , triangular , highly polarised , green object against a dark background is just as acceptable as the actual , intensely bright ½ degree , circular , unpolarised white Sun which the bees see almost every day in the normal sky . |
| 8 | For a moment he wondered about her , what she thought of all the ribbing and chipping that she received almost every day in this place . |
| 9 | It seems as if the Opposition flounder almost every day in their responses to the charges and questions that we put to them , and I very much hope that they will clarify their position on national insurance charges on high and not so high incomes — and on whether any increases will be phased in . |
| 10 | This little drama — and other scenes like it — is played out method-acting style almost every day in this particular household . |
| 11 | The circumstances in which a break with the past and the need for a fresh start come about vary from country to country , but in almost every case in modern times countries have a Constitution for the very simple and elementary reason that they wanted , for some reason , to begin again and so they put down in writing the main outline , at least , of their proposed system of government . |
| 12 | Yet in almost every workplace in Britain we all know there are people who are willing to receive all the benefits of working in a trade union workplace , but too unknown to their colleagues , refuse to pay the costs . |
| 13 | This Union faces strong competition in almost every sector in which it organizes . |
| 14 | Oldham forward Keith Atkinson , who has broken almost every bone in his body , picked up £6,000 yesterday when 1,588 fans turned up for his testimonial . |
| 15 | It will be curious if the second industrial revolution , through the wide spread of its amenities of life to almost every home in the country , succeeds in destroying this unfortunate product of the first . |
| 16 | Burglar alarms are being installed in almost every home in the road , and some residents are installing steel grills over ground floor windows . |
| 17 | But not everything is rosy — 1991 saw a bruising strike at Peterborough , and Gilroy admits that the company has been hit hard by the economic downturn in almost every country in which it competes . |
| 18 | As the word spread that potatoes were a very good food to eat people 's reluctance to include potatoes in their diet was overcome and by the end of the 18th Century almost every country in Europe had accepted this knobbly brown tuber as part of their everyday diet . |
| 19 | Law was ‘ obsessed by one large and absorbing idea ’ , the creation of a single , united , powerful ‘ Free Church of England ’ , and he ‘ personally formed almost every Council in England ’ which by his death meant over 1,000 . |
| 20 | The Tories have been celebrating a night of remarkable victories in the region 's local elections.They picked up seats on almost every council in their best performance in years . |
| 21 | ICAO now uses a large capacity computer on which the details of every notifiable accident to a public transport aircraft with a maximum weight exceeding 5700 kilos are recorded from almost every State in the world . |
| 22 | The tall , fast growing trees that have been planted along almost every road in China — in columns sometimes two to five trees deep — help to provide good timber . |
| 23 | But after a couple of weeks around Cardiff and Southampton docks — where there was a similar dry-dock to the battleship dock at St Nazaire — they could each carry out almost every demolition in under 10 minutes . |
| 24 | In my third term in the Sixth Form , almost every girl in the form was made a prefect except me . |
| 25 | And all four say they will be out canvassing almost every night in an attempt to woo the waverers among Darlington 's 66,885 electorate . |
| 26 | In some places [ presumably in the north of Ireland : JM ] the short sound of e is improperly substituted for a , in almost every word in which it occurs ; in Belfast , however , this error is almost exclusively confined to those words in which a is preceded by c or g , or followed by the sound of k , hard g or ng . |
| 27 | And , when Maisie and he got into the crowd , he was , of course , stopped by almost every individual in it . |
| 28 | The firm has constructed carriages of various descriptions for almost every railway in the kingdom , and for many lines in other countries — amongst others for Egypt , Sweden Norway , Denmark , Holland , Spain , India and Australia . |
| 29 | With controlled prices ensuring excess demand for almost every item in state shops , products can be resold on the black market for huge profits . |
| 30 | Raphael planned his frescoes in the Stanze to a programme provided by a humanist at the papal court , and the inclusion of almost every detail in Enguerrand Quarton 's marvellously constructed Coronation of the Virgin is laid down in the documents commissioning it . |