Example sentences of "almost [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When all the grain had been spread out on every kind of tattered rug and mat that the house possessed , it stretched out almost right across the roof . |
| 2 | ‘ Did you notice how his eyes were on me almost right through the performance ? |
| 3 | Why , almost right from the start she 'd known she was playing with fire , and the rest of the cliché was proving to be disastrously right . |
| 4 | ‘ Maybe we could suspend them from this bit in the middle with a length of thread , ’ Norris grunted , sticking his head almost right inside the appliance . |
| 5 | Despite Ferrari , the race went on , and a memorable race it was , with thunder-clouds overhead , a wonderful high-speed circuit to urge drivers on and a hugely combative field in which Hunt , who held pole position , went into an early lead , was swept aside by John Watson in a Penske , with Ronnie Peterson in his March coming up almost right alongside the leaders , eventually overtaking both . |
| 6 | Charlotte returned almost gladly to the recollection of her morning interview , and in retrospect it seemed to her far more strange and mysterious than while it was happening . |
| 7 | One would have wished for some recognition of the fact that a view of Co-operation which limits it almost wholly to the Consumers ' Movement and is satisfied with that limitation , is at least to be regretted . |
| 8 | Staying almost wholly above the 3,000ft contour , the highest point of the walk is 7,245ft . |
| 9 | This reflects the fact that Soviet assessments of events in Latin America were then made almost wholly on the basis of information received from local Communist parties . |
| 10 | The former provides an involvement in the parish almost wholly at the level of observation , normally in the company of the incumbent . |
| 11 | Indeed MacArthur was concerned almost wholly with the culmination to his four-year struggle against the Japanese and was determined to accept the formal surrender himself as a prelude to his new role as the reformer of Japanese society . |
| 12 | They build almost wholly with the granite used in the new pavement of the streets of London … |
| 13 | Predictably the case-law has been almost wholly in the context of pre-trial discovery which is both of great importance in United States practice and most open to objection or misunderstanding in other countries . |
| 14 | The challenge to the settled order of society originated almost wholly in the political aspirations , suppressed in response to the French Revolution and continuing for nearly forty years , of the latter part of the eighteenth century . |
| 15 | In a big theatre performance will never be perfect unless the beat is understood more by the eyes than the ears , because sometimes the chorus is almost wholly in the wings , and almost always divided between two sides . |
| 16 | In so far as Bukharin was discussing the relationship between society and nature he focused his attention almost wholly upon the material aspects of the exchanges . |
| 17 | In the light of the revolution in gender attitudes in Western society in the past decade , it is perhaps ironical that the most significant application of British obscenity law in recent years , at least in relation to films and videos , derives almost wholly from the fraternal obligations which men owe to women . |
| 18 | So called although prior to the reorganisation of local government boundaries in 1974 , the road was almost wholly within the neighbouring county of Ross and Cromarty . |
| 19 | However , we can not exclude the possibility that there might be some other form of matter , distributed almost uniformly throughout the universe , that we have not yet detected and that might still raise the average density of the universe up to the critical value needed to halt the expansion . |
| 20 | Captive bred angelfish are voracious feeders that are almost constantly on the look-out for food , and are generally first in and last out when the food is being dished out . |
| 21 | Consider a fish in its native environment be it lake , river or ocean , feeding almost constantly throughout the day/night cycle ( species dependant ) . |
| 22 | The other side of control consisted almost entirely of the cash nexus — the economic benefits . |
| 23 | Once placement is achieved the task of daily caring is passed almost entirely to the primary caregivers and the quality of care offered is essentially taken on trust . |
| 24 | The stock editor system reached a point in some authorities where work on the stock was turned over almost entirely to the ‘ specialist ’ officer , and librarians at service points were denied any real voice in stock provision . |
| 25 | This issue of Supporters News has been given over almost entirely to the campaign on the proposed ban on all tobacco advertising and promotion , put forward in a draft European Community Directive in May . |
| 26 | The animal prion diseases are scrapie , affecting sheep and goats and prevalent in most sheep rearing countries ( although not Australasia or Japan ) ; transmissible mink encephalopathy , occurring in rare outbreaks in captive bred animals on mink farms , mainly in North America ; chronic wasting disease of captive mule deer and elk , seen in North America ; and bovine spongiform encephalopathy , currently a major epidemic confined almost entirely to the cattle of the British Isles . |
| 27 | The formulation and coordination of the Conservative contribution to economic , industrial and social policy he left almost entirely to the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 28 | Chapter 9 will be devoted almost entirely to the general question of how active a role should be ascribed to consumers in understanding the meaning of goods in social relations today , and the nature of goods as material culture . |
| 29 | Secondary tonics are limited almost entirely to the relative and subdominant . |
| 30 | The assessors based their decision almost entirely on the testimony of Lisbet Palme , who without hesitation pointed out Mr Pettersson as the man she saw standing near her and her dying husband . |