Example sentences of "[verb] virtually the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Management would say nothing after the talks , but John Kydd , divisional organiser of the AEEU , said the company had effectively delivered an ultimatum to the union to accept virtually the same package as was rejected by sacked workers nearly two weeks ago or the factory could close . |
| 2 | Note that the killer was a Euro-convertible , brilliantly conceived by the company 's advisers : it proved as fatal as another financiers ' wheeze , the repurchase of 40% of IBC , which helped greatly to destroy virtually the entire value of that company 's equity . |
| 3 | I managed to c to cover virtually the complete G C S E chemistry course in an hour and a half . |
| 4 | It is the first layer to be secreted in the cycle of cuticle formation , arising on top of the epidermal microvilli as small plaques which subsequently fuse to cover virtually the whole body . |
| 5 | Here there is a fine series of grooves that run virtually the full height of the cliff . |
| 6 | I read recently that applicants for the Institute of Advanced Motorists test are in the ratio of one woman to four men , but the success rate shows virtually the same number of women passing as men . |
| 7 | Two landlords/ commission agents control virtually the whole produce of the Jordan valley . |
| 8 | Now can I er also suggest to you that in discussing this one outstanding item of the housing land allocations , we pursue virtually the same sort of approach that we did yesterday , er and in fact if you look at what is set down under matter One D for discussion , it says is the provision proposed for the Greater York area including the new settlement appropriate etcetera , and in fact when you look at the first item for discussion under the Greater York new settlement issue , we come straight into , does Greater York new settlement represent an appropriate and justified policy response , etcetera . |
| 9 | Georgian television had become virtually the only source of information since the presidium of the Supreme Soviet had closed down almost all Georgian language newspapers on Sept. 5 ( allegedly because of a paper shortage ) and Russian and Soviet television broadcasts were interrupted . |
| 10 | Costings now reveal that until recently the approach which placed emphasis on type longevity and the value of the bull calf netted virtually the same money as higher production strategies , and farmers following these routes were not irrational . |
| 11 | They constructed a circular model , where both parties in a conversation are shown as having virtually the same functions . |
| 12 | It took Victoria just two decades to climb virtually the full length of the international road safety league table and it did so by actively engaging many organised elements of society . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , Cockfield , who expect to have virtually the whole village behind them , add recent signings Nigel Sams and Stephen Barker to the squad , but there will be late fitness tests for midfielder Mark Roughley and Kevin Pierce . |
| 14 | Many deficiencies can be made good from alternative sources : time and again the Valor Ecclesiasticus , compiled barely a decade later , gives virtually the same values as the survey for Church properties . |
| 15 | The industrial labour dispute of early summer 1989 had virtually the whole public ridiculing BR 's labour relations and calling for a change of style . |
| 16 | In our sample , in the south both have lost virtually the same amount of ground ; yet the Lib Dems have won seats by the handful . |
| 17 | The flood story in Babylonia is also known from a Sumerian text telling virtually the same tale , though more briefly , and many Sumerian compositions refer to the distant days of the flood or before . |
| 18 | In 1930 a separate act of parliament introduced companies with limited liabilities who were not allowed to issue shares ( copying virtually the German GmbH , in Hungarian : Kft ) . |
| 19 | Romagna is one of Italy 's most popular holiday regions with wide , golden beaches stretching virtually the whole length of the coast . |
| 20 | Today cordless tools represent virtually the whole range , drills , screwdrivers , jigsaws , glue guns , sanders , grinders etc … |
| 21 | In the older groups Blacks and Whites have virtually the same rate ( 4.4 per cent . |
| 22 | To bring out the contrast with UK policy , we can consider a specific case , that of the MMC inquiry into the White Salt Market. ; Two firms supplied virtually the entire UK salt market and , over the 13 year period taken by the MMC , their prices had been identical and had changed identically within a few weeks of each other . |
| 23 | " Now in 1849 both companies supplied virtually the same water … the Lambeth Company got theirs from the Thames close to the Hungerford Bridge ; the Southwark and Vauxhall Company got theirs at Battersea-fields . |
| 24 | There were no Gee Bees from the past , but there were four replicas , covering virtually the whole range . |