Example sentences of "almost certain [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That means an almost certain debut for Mark Brennan , for whom Oldham agreed a £200,000 instalment-payment plan with Manchester City last week . |
| 2 | ‘ Whatever the precise degree of knowledge of the defendants at any particular time , faced with a laden ship which , as they well knew , was about to leave port , the defendants must in my judgment be deemed to have known of the almost certain existence of contracts of carriage to which the shipowners were parties . |
| 3 | Wales 's 2-1 defeat to The Netherlands at Wrexham on Wednesday night meant almost certain qualification to the finals in Italy next summer for the Dutch — but left Wales bemoaning another failed campaign . |
| 4 | Although use of the IUD and condom has increased , especially among educated women , the rise of sterilization is much more important as it marks an almost certain end to childbearing ( table 4.3 ) . |
| 5 | Scamander in Homer takes human form to fight Achilles , and there is nothing in the least improbable in the personification of rivers in fifth-century art ; indeed there are almost certain examples on coins . |
| 6 | And he was walking with a man of Levantine wealth whose demise would permit him , Hope , almost certain access to his fortune through marriage to its heir . |
| 7 | He looked noble , as though he were saying goodbye before catching a troop ship to almost certain death on some foreign front . |
| 8 | The risk of confronting the disease may be the possible death of the sufferer ; the risk of not doing so may be his or her almost certain death from the progression of the disease . |
| 9 | Having saved him from almost certain death in the morning at the hands of the enemy , fate had collected him the same evening by a stray bullet fired in error by a Maltese Army recruit . |
| 10 | Finally , back to Stoke Mandeville and the return tonight of Bilal Shabib , and Samir Medina , five years after they were rescued from almost certain death in the civil war in Lebanon . |
| 11 | ‘ In the face of almost certain defeat in the Lobby , ’ say Blom-Cooper and Drewry , ‘ the Law Lords , as decorously as they were able , withdrew their amendment and retired once more into their judicial shells . ’ |