Example sentences of "almost [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you would still be able to identify targets but those targets may become a bit more general , I E because in the past the landlord as a class had always sided with the Kuomintang then i it gives you the opportunity to go back and attack them , almost the landlords per se in a way you could n't during the Japanese war because clearly loyal landlords were fighting the Japanese . |
| 2 | If you produce an invoice , and on reading it onscreen discover that you have entered £350 instead of £250 , almost every Windows user will expect to drop a text cursor over the offending 3 and change it to a 2 . |
| 3 | The company does not object to moustaches , and in this promotional video almost every UPS worker seems to have one . |
| 4 | there 's all sorts like , like recruiting , making contact with the schools , er , lobbying , er , there , there about ten or twelve different workshops now , almost on almost every aspects , so and that would be something that we could give , if , if these were n't . |
| 5 | Great trading nations such as the Phoenicians and the Etruscans produced almost no coins . |
| 6 | The Italian press made much of the fact that the royal couple had almost no clothes , no staff and appeared to have no money . |
| 7 | Few mammals and almost no birds enjoy being handled , no matter how tame . |
| 8 | By July 1914 it covered 2.3 m. workmen ( almost no women worked in the insured occupations ) of whom 63 per cent were skilled . |
| 9 | But unlike the Spanish rallies , there were almost no women at Sheffield . |
| 10 | There were almost no women left in the palace ) . |
| 11 | For example , the patient described by Shallice ( 1981 b ) could spell more than 90 per cent of the words dictated to him , but could produce plausible spellings for almost no non-words . |
| 12 | There were almost no restrictions on the behaviour of the Kha-Khan elect , and his wilfulness was legend . |
| 13 | I have been indecently assaulted by many a wise old family physician in my time : the passion for mammary examination — which has saved almost no lives at all over the past few years , it now appears-has been fomented and encouraged by male doctors . |
| 14 | Almost no houses were without televisions and fridges . |
| 15 | We have found almost no teachers ' organisations or teachers who want it . |
| 16 | A few day-trippers and walkers had stopped by , but almost no locals at all . |
| 17 | There is a short , square-ended choir and almost no transepts . |
| 18 | The house was closed ; there were almost no visits . |
| 19 | She had a longish , plain face with a straight nose and almost no eyebrows ; she must have plucked them away in order to repaint them in higher up . |
| 20 | He found that although the rats in the third group made many errors until the eleventh day , upon reinforcement on this day they made almost no mistakes . |
| 21 | That did not mean much , since Kursk was itself a drowsy centre with almost no factories and only the main railway line from Moscow to enliven it . |
| 22 | There are almost no short-cuts with ADF ! |
| 23 | First courses such as asparagus ( choose vinaigrette rather than butter , or better yet , fresh lemon to be squeezed over ) ; oysters ( almost no calories , but watch out for the buttered brown bread ! ) ; soused and smoked fish ( the soused fish — usually herring — is lower in calories than the smoked , but both are fairly light ) ; fish and vegetable terrines ( though usually made with cream , you get very little in a slice ) ; quails ' eggs ( without mayonnaise ) ; and stuffed or marinated vegetables . |
| 24 | The proportions on the first trip across to the island had been strange — almost no cars , few locals and 2,000 passengers in guernseys with kit bags , carrying damp cardboard boxes of food . |
| 25 | The late Tim Brookshaw , not famous for faint-heartedness , danced an eloquent jig on top of the last fence at Leicester to show how hard it was , and one day there was almost a jockeys ' strike at Plumpton . |
| 26 | His affection and solicitude for Dobrée , as for other old friends like Herbert Read , Philip Mairet and Frank Morley , is very touching , and he seemed now almost a grandpaterfamilias for the men who had known him so well . |
| 27 | We know that the Park and Ride situation , while it 's got a lot going for it , is almost a thieves paradise . |