Example sentences of "almost all [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Almost all petroleum imports by Yugoslavia come from the Soviet Union , Iraq , Libya , and Algeria . |
| 3 | Almost all cuckoo hosts , like the reed warbler , lay one egg each day until their clutch of around five eggs is complete . |
| 4 | Even in the nuclear family , women told me that certain jobs should never be done by a man , they were not Izzat wali kam ( i.e. jobs of honour ) or they were not manly , and predictably these tasks included almost all household chores . |
| 5 | Although manual focus is a useful feature , almost all camcorder operation is done with the lens set to auto focus ( AF ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Like almost all commando colonels , Colonel A.C. Newman was a man with technical as well as military ability : a civil engineer of cheerful but quiet character , seldom seen without his pipe . |
| 8 | Our impression is that almost all contract computer staff are voluntarily working on this basis . |
| 9 | On March 29 Moscow radio reported that almost all Ossete villages in South Ossetia had been razed by Georgian militants , and on the following day there were ominous reports from officials in North Ossetia that 12,000 armed Georgians were massing for an assault on Tskhinvali and surrounding districts still under Ossete control . |
| 10 | Radioactive dust has settled on the Earth , killing off almost all animal life . |
| 11 | It said : ’ the land left fallow in almost all Member States was of very low productive level . ’ |
| 12 | Given the severe limitations of physical plant , the University is planning a slow but steady growth in student numbers ( home/EC and overseas ) of around 1 per cent per annum across almost all subject areas , with a modest increase in the ratio of Science to Arts students . |
| 13 | The same is true of almost all pattern knitting , from the most heavily textured designs to really delicate lace . |
| 14 | Today , almost all CD-ROM players and discs are manufactured in line with IS0 9660 . |
| 15 | Equally , there does not appear to be any great regional variation in the use of temporary workers , except that almost all agency workers are in the South East of the country . |
| 16 | At present , contracts are used for almost all energy trade and the countries of the Community can not be indifferent to the contractual arrangements under which they secure the energy on which they depend . |
| 17 | More than 170 delegates representing almost all opposition groups met under the auspices of the Iraqi National Congress ( INC ) in Salahuddin , northern Iraq , on Oct. 27-31 to adopt a strategy aimed at overthrowing the Saddam Hussein regime . |
| 18 | If ( and only if ) almost all plant material is seen as soon as the LB-level is reached then increases in readings with increasing exposure will be due to spreading and the graph will be linear for plants in this region , as it is for cards . |
| 19 | As a result , the size of almost all age groups has changed substantially over the past two decades , in marked contrast to the small increase registered by the overall population . |
| 20 | In the UK , the decennial Census of Population records the number of individual people and households , but almost all population data are reported as various aggregations which ensure that data about individuals can not be recovered . |
| 21 | ( Average donor country ODA to LDCs during the 1980s had not exceeded 0.09 per cent , and almost all donor countries also still fell well below the UN target for ODA to all developing countries , set at 0.7 per cent of GNP . ) |
| 22 | They said they felt marginalised from almost all television programmes , pointing out that young people 's concerns are rarely covered . |
| 23 | The many different modes of transmission of hepatitis B are due to the fact that almost all body secretions have been shown to contain the infectious viral surface antigen . |
| 24 | Furthermore , while 70 per cent of the population lived in rural ( village or refugee camp ) localities , almost all health facilities were located in towns . |
| 25 | Almost all health care professionals with primary training in medicine , nursing , physiotherapy , or other allied professions counsel people during their work : if the broadest definition of the term is used an episode of counselling occurs in every medical consultation . |
| 26 | Almost all classroom activity was oral and monolingual in the second language . |
| 27 | Almost all garden glasshouses were treated in this way . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It 's common practice in almost all library services to advise the publishers of the reasons for the decisions taken . |
| 30 | In almost all predator assemblages , therefore , the back of the skull at least is broken , and that is accepted as the norm . |