Example sentences of "almost universal [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An almost universal feature of determination is that it involves subtle chemical changes , almost certainly turning on or off genes , and the overt result may not be seen for many hours . |
| 2 | The idea that the horrors of civilization represent a decline from a golden age of natural virtue in which ancestral man lived in an unspoiled Paradise , is an almost universal characteristic of myths of origin , the story of the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden being a very typical example . |
| 3 | Whilst any legal provisions concerned with the curriculum may be said to add further legitimacy to the instillation of moral , cultural and social values by the education system ( via the so-called ‘ affective curriculum ’ ) , there are provisions associated in a particularly identifiable way with certain values — for example , those concerned with sex and race equality , which may be said to have almost universal support amongst policy-makers and practitioners . |
| 4 | An example from the 1920s is the almost universal influence of Chaplin and jazz in the avant-garde . |
| 5 | Some form of property taxes are an almost universal source of income for local government , but in many parts of the world they are accompanied by other forms of taxation . |
| 6 | Battle , Murder , and Death , Venuses and Psyches , the bloody and voluptuous , are the things in which they seem to delight : and these are portrayed in a cold , hard , and often tawdry style , with an almost universal deficiency of chiaroscuro ; the whole artificial , labored and theatrical . |
| 7 | By the 1980s , in the wake of the stagflation and slow growth in even the rich economies of the Western Europe , came an equally almost universal loss of faith in the capacity of any individual state to intervene decisively and effectively . |
| 8 | ( Why , for instance , the widespread horror of miscegenation and the almost universal belief among whites that ‘ half-breeds ’ inherited precisely the worst features of their parents ' races ? ) |
| 9 | This provoked an almost universal howl of outrage in Britain . |