Example sentences of "almost [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results of the survey were published in the spring of 1988 : the views expressed in it naturally reflected the fact that the Action Plan 's implementation had been done at almost breakneck speed and had required much effort on the part of FE lecturers . |
| 2 | A comfortable trip , apart from the almost incessant announcements over the public address system which interrupt work , leisure reading and , worst of all , an attempt at a nap . |
| 3 | The almost incessant labour which that art requires leaves so little time for study that one can hardly find any person of sufficient experience capable of writing . |
| 4 | He wove these and other influences from Florentine contemporaries into a distinctive manner , at once responding to the plastic values of Donatello but never renouncing an almost calligraphic approach to outlines and drapery . |
| 5 | Certainly by 1100 the whole episode had fallen into almost complete oblivion . |
| 6 | What made the pre-1960 period distinctive , however , was the almost complete reliance on this one objective . |
| 7 | Circus scenes were very popular at Colchester and there is an almost complete vessel , now in the British Museum ( fig. 14.8 ) . |
| 8 | At levels of 1 molecule per 9 bp or 5 bp NCp7B gave very significant and almost complete protection , respectively , of the DNA ( lanes 6–7 ) as did NCp7C ( lanes 8–9 ) . |
| 9 | [ T ] he most significant legal development of the past fifty years is the almost complete absorption of administrative law into the fold of the common law . |
| 10 | The large trucks that are used by professional carriers where the horse is sealed up in almost complete darkness and isolation , frighten horses more than two-horse floats pulled by cars or the more open trucks frequently used by professional riders . |
| 11 | This is made more difficult by the almost complete anonymity of the modern laboratory . |
| 12 | A repeated Barium swallow showed almost complete disappearance of the tumour ; only a slightly narrowed segment with a length of 2 cm remained at the level of the carina ( Figs 6 and 7 ) . |
| 13 | For comparison , omeprazole given subcutaneously at a dose of 30 mg/kg resulted in almost complete inhibition of acid output ( 12 ( 2 ) µmol/30 minutes ) and pepsin output ( 0.15 ( 0.04 ) mg/30 minutes ) . |
| 14 | The reduction in the ulcer area after treatment with intraperitoneal bFGF at a dose of 30 µg/kg/day was comparable with that obtained with omeprazole at a dose of 60 mg/kg/ day — namely , almost complete inhibition of gastric acid secretion ( Table II ) . |
| 15 | The castle was begun by Henry de Lacy in 1282 ; Denbigh is also noted for the almost complete circuit of town walls . |
| 16 | An evening out of jobs between regions would be the first step in what , in the longer term , should aim to be an almost complete transfer of government jobs from areas of full employment into areas with the highest levels of unemployment . |
| 17 | He describes a ‘ good-enough mother ’ ( i.e. , a mother as good at being a mother as any of us can expect either to have or to be ) as someone who ‘ starts off with an almost complete adaptation to her infant 's needs , and as time proceeds she adapts less and less completely , gradually according to the infant 's growing ability to deal with her failure . ’ |
| 18 | Much of the difficulty of identification is caused by an almost complete ignorance of what we are looking for . |
| 19 | At the highest levels by 1922 there was an almost complete overlap of personnel between party and Soviet committees . |
| 20 | The sole promise of rewarding friendship had come from Sir Henry Agnew and his daughter ; yet both now , it seemed , were deeply engaged on speculative work of their own , and had taken to a life of almost complete seclusion . |
| 21 | This suggestion is supported by the fact that the Ψ40-synthesis in mutant a207 was delayed by about 24 hours ( Fig. 2C ) , a time required for almost complete modification of G26 to m 2 2G26 . |
| 22 | The confusion , fortified by a fear on the part of some members that they were going to be asked to make way for Austen Chamberlain and Birkenhead , gave Baldwin almost complete freedom . |
| 23 | Under this system , the government will still control the total capital expenditure of local authorities , but now intends to allow the authorities almost complete freedom to decide their own priorities within that overall sum . |
| 24 | Although there is almost complete freedom of trade , many traders choose not to do so in response to the prevailing wishes of their local communities . |
| 25 | The rule operates as an almost complete bar on over-the-counter ( OTC ) futures transactions for a private customer . |
| 26 | There 's a certain irony here in the fact that the world leader in free market philosophy should be the one to try and bring some regulation into this area , because that 's the problem here , almost complete deregulation the use of convenient ships , low skilled , low paid er exploited often Third World workers , used and abused by ship owners the world over to increase their profit margins , with a subsequent lack of concern over both the environment and people 's lives . |
| 27 | A comprehensive software package allows almost complete software control of the instrument including the option of software controlled slits , grating turret , and control of the additive/subtractive option . |
| 28 | Dartmoor is one of the few examples in Britain of an almost complete Bronze Age landscape . |
| 29 | Despite his almost complete lack of English and the poor Italian the others possessed , several things had emerged . |
| 30 | Also , the USA exported its long experience with trying to deal with its own soil erosion problems , as a part of foreign policy to its sphere of influence in Latin America in the 1950s , where there had been an almost complete lack of government concern over soil erosion . |