Example sentences of "in almost [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To-day , the world 's great athletes in almost every sport have the opportunity to earn large sums of money as a result of their skill and dedication , and no-one begrudges them that , but the Olympians compete in the Olympic Games solely for the glory and the chance of winning a gold , silver , or bronze medal . |
| 2 | In almost every purchase one makes , from a butter substitute to a bathroom suite , there are two forms of competition . |
| 3 | He was the first gold medal winner ( 1902 ) of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy , his obituary in Nature noting : ‘ It is given to few men to discover a process which has had such a far-reaching effect in almost every branch of civilised life . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Peasant violence was generally localized and poorly organized , but there were serious risings in almost every decade of the seventeenth century . |
| 6 | In almost every decade of this century , and before , librarians have been congratulating one another at having shaken off the custodial image and become active disseminators and publicists . |
| 7 | This Union faces strong competition in almost every sector in which it organizes . |
| 8 | The planning movement of the 1930s was to find its apotheosis in the conduct of the war and the plans for post-war reconstruction in almost every field from social security to new town development . |
| 9 | Today it has a pip in almost every pie from computers to cosmetics . |
| 10 | Not all positions were as healthy as others , for 4,700 feet ( 1,400m ) up Tata-Mailau mountain a Section post was established that needed a fresh 16 men every week , the cold — Tata-Mailau is 9,000 feet ( nearly 3,000 metres ) high — bringing on the malaria latent in almost every man of the Companies . |
| 11 | In almost every case it was the farmer 's son . |
| 12 | Indeed , they are treated more as grown-up students than as children to be spoon-fed , and this in almost every case has a good effect both on the work produced and on their motivation . |
| 13 | In almost every case , there was burning resentment at a stress carried that the bearer was quite unable to disregard : bad marriage with one partner far too strong ; a dominant sister whose very existence seemed to crush ; an authoritarian mother who apparently allowed her child no freedom even in adult life . |
| 14 | If this reasoning is applied generally then in almost every case the local authority , not actually owning the land to be benefited by the restriction , will not be injured by modification or discharge . |
| 15 | The connector ring is in almost every case , attached to two of the bridle lines by a slip knot ( Lark 's Head ) so that the ring can be moved towards either end of the continuous line . |
| 16 | In almost every case , the concerned parties believed that , by living on the edge , they 'd somehow gain insights denied normal , everyday people . |
| 17 | It was only years later that I came to learn that the easily remembered collects were those that had been translated by Archbishop Cranmer from the Sacramentaries of Popes Leo , Gregory and Gelasius , while the difficult ones to remember were in almost every case the work of reformers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |
| 18 | However , their sole interest has , in almost every case , been to explain the violent aspects of societies ( see e.g. Bramson and Goethals 1964 ; Bohannan 1967 ; Fried et al. 1967 ; Vayda 1976 ; Ferguson 1984 ; Le Crone Foster et al. 1986 ; Riches 1986 ) . |
| 19 | In almost every case , and in India and Nepal certainly , the only areas in which tigers continued to exist in any quantities were former hunting reserves . |
| 20 | A rough-hewn psychological explanation would hold that , because many second generation Caribbeans and Africans in the UK are raised in single-parent families , in almost every case the parent being the mother , the children pass into an emotional void at the ages of 13 or 14 and seek out father figures in the shape of sports coaches with whom they form compensatory attachments . |
| 21 | In principle parsons had the advantage , but in practice rectories with cure of souls tended to be the poorer ones , for many of the best were impropriate to their monastic patrons , which in almost every case had ordained a vicarage and endowed it adequately — rarely with less than £5 a year , more commonly £6 — while rectory incomes tended to vary widely . |
| 22 | Patients had specialised nursing care on a medical intensive care unit in almost every case . |
| 23 | At some stage in almost every case it is worth while pausing to review transactions , to consider afresh the erstwhile or present relationship between client and parents and to apply this consideration to the current social worker-client relationship . |
| 24 | Although in some instances the sex/style differences are very slight , they are quite consistent in that they usually tend in the same direction , much as Labov ( 1966 : 7 ) found for social class and style : ‘ Native New Yorkers differ in their usage in terms of absolute values of the variables , but the shifts between contrasting styles follow the same pattern in almost every case . ’ |
| 25 | In almost every case relating to children — and certainly in this particular case — circumstances change , often frequently . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | At the May feeing market at Bridgend very few first class servants were on the ground , nearly all present being " haflin lads and young girls " who were in almost every case asking exorbitant wages , but were glad latterly to come to more reasonable terms . |
| 28 | In almost every case , in fact , the attempts that were being made to promote the cultural interests of non-Russian nationalities came into conflict with the multinational composition of each of the republics , not just of the USSR as a whole . |
| 29 | Further argument was profitless when he started shuffling his notes for the judgment which he would , in almost every case , deliver without hesitation or correction as soon as counsel sat down . |
| 30 | Which , in almost every case , amounted to nothing . |