Example sentences of "[was/were] almost [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aethelwealh 's possession of Wight and the Meon valley since before 675 and the consequent shift in political and military relationships were almost certainly the reason for Caedwalla 's hostility , together with a desire to prevent a further extension of southern Saxon influence in the south-east . |
| 2 | Did you ever have the feeling that you were almost more a part of management that you were a representative of the workforce ? |
| 3 | It was almost exactly a year ago that my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Surrey , East ( Sir G. Howe ) resigned , with momentous consequences for the politics of our country . |
| 4 | The rate of coronary artery bypass grafting for 1991–2 in Olsburgh 's district was almost exactly the target figure of 300 per million , and I assume that his health authority has based its purchasing decisions for this year on last year 's achievement . |
| 5 | In fact , when 435 next reported crossing the BN it was almost overhead the airfield , flying parallel to the ILS localiser . |
| 6 | uneven nutmeg brown walls and a huge fireplace where there was almost always a fire . |
| 7 | The person who decided this was almost always the vicar ; though of recent years he could not make elaborate changes without the support of a majority in his church council . |
| 8 | For all aspects of specifically linguistic processing , however , it remained the case that , in almost all people , the left hemisphere was the important one ; and so in people with acquired disorders of language it was almost always the case that the left hemisphere had been damaged . |
| 9 | Most importantly , this was almost entirely the result of immigration , first from the European countries and , following the First World War , from southern USA . |
| 10 | Dobson seems to be quite sure of this , but Machyn was almost certainly a Londoner , and his Diary is one of the most valuable primary sources for the study of EModE London pronunciation . |
| 11 | The next year , in what was almost certainly a case of mistaken identity , the IRA bombed the Belfast home of another Lady Onslow , widow of Sir Richard Onslow . |
| 12 | Our ‘ novel ’ was almost certainly a write-off , but that in a sense gave a kind of freedom . |
| 13 | This expansion was almost certainly a result of a complex interaction between soil degradation , human impact , grazing , bog development , and , possibly , climatic change . |
| 14 | His protégé and servant , Thomas Bubwith ( son of William ) was almost certainly a kinsman . |
| 15 | Curiously , the clause in Interfoto Picture Library v. Stiletto Visual Programmes was almost certainly a penalty and unenforceable even if it had been properly incorporated ( see paragraph 14–13 below ) . |
| 16 | Talbot saw no point in telling Andropulos that it was almost certainly a bomber and equally certainly not carrying hundreds of passengers . |
| 17 | Malcolm 's oldest son ( by his first wife ) , Duncan , had lived in England probably for twenty years , and was associated with Anglo-Norman culture ; there was almost certainly a reaction also against Margaret ( who died within a week ) , her sons , whom Donald exiled , and English immigrants . |
| 18 | Keynes was trying to create a consensus around public works and his adoption of protection in the autumn of 1930 was almost certainly an attempt to enlist the support of the growing tariff lobby . |
| 19 | What precipitated the final crisis with Penda and the attack on Oswiu which culminated at the Winwaed on 15 November in 655 or 656 is obscure but Penda was almost certainly the primary moving force , the centre of a coalition which included Cadafael , king of Gwynedd ( HB ch. 65 ) , Aethelhere , king of the eastern Angles , and Oethelwald , king of the Deirans ( HE 111 , 24 ) . |
| 20 | A major cause of Godwin 's banishment in 1051 was almost certainly the unwillingness of his men to fight the king when the time came . |
| 21 | Only in the nineteenth century did excavations reveal a major Roman temple to Mercury at Magdalensberg , and the youth was almost certainly the cult statue . |
| 22 | Glanville Jones thinks that they may go back to pre-Roman times in many cases ; June Sheppard has shown that the estate at Marden in Herefordshire , which has Roman settlements , a Saxon palace site , and a ninth-century minster on the site of the initial burial of St Ethelbert , was almost certainly the estate attached to Sutton Walls , the pre-Roman hillfort in the area which was reoccupied in post-Roman times ( Fig. 77 ) . |
| 23 | It was almost certainly the growth of dissatisfaction with this arrangement in the other republics and provinces that led to the abandonment of the retention ratio system at the end of 1985 . |
| 24 | This decision in ex parte Swati was almost certainly the reason for a sharp decline in the number of applications for judicial review from immigrants in 1986 . |
| 25 | Others reflect what was almost certainly the intention of Parliament , as that an Act applies only to the United Kingdom unless the contrary is expressed . |
| 26 | Henry was almost certainly the victim of an ayah who , in the interests of peace and quiet , fed the child opium ; in any case , the mother had no cause to blame herself , as she did in the following verses : |
| 27 | Her son was almost certainly the victim of a ‘ cot death ’ . |
| 28 | There was an abandoned city on the coast to the south of the G'bai , and the G'bai itself was almost certainly the result of either a nuclear war or an accident of such proportions that it had produced large-scale volcanic activity . |
| 29 | ( This was almost twice the amount spilled in the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska , considered one of the worst oil tanker disasters ever . ) |