Example sentences of "[vb mod] almost [adv] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from circulating relevant material to those members contained in the mailing list that are considered to have an interest in the particular planning exercise in question , there are a number of basic publicity measures which should almost invariably be carried out , i.e. place an advertisement in the relevant local papers ; lodge relevant documents at suitable venues accessible to the public . |
| 2 | However , it should almost certainly be treated as an associated company and be equity-accounted in future . |
| 3 | The tiny minority worth as much as £40 should almost certainly be counted as yeomen . |
| 4 | The reason for this seems to have been that until 1914 , the return on UK securities was very low , rarely more than 3 per cent , and better returns could almost always be obtained abroad . |
| 5 | In trying to describe the mechanics of something which is more emotional than clinical , more sensual than physiological , they occasionally range into the ridiculous , but could almost never be described as sublime . |
| 6 | Of all these expanding emotions , the one which we call compassion , may have been the first to emerge and could be the one of greatest importance , but the origins of all of them could almost certainly be found far back in evolutionary time . |
| 7 | A young woman going to buy material for her Salwar Kamiz in Bradford or Newham would almost invariably be accompanied by her mother or husband or cousin or at least a friend . |
| 8 | The former , covering all or most categories of legal aid work , would almost always be provided by solicitors ' firms ; the latter could be provided by solicitors ' firms , law centres , advice agencies and national organisations giving advice to individual clients . |
| 9 | Although they had no power to punish prisoners themselves , the overseers reported any misdemeanours to staff and their word would almost always be taken against that of another prisoner . |
| 10 | Without it , the short , cheap cut would almost always be taken . |
| 11 | This would almost certainly be seen in Britain as constituting an infringement of private property rights . |
| 12 | For example , there are some decisions of the Court of Appeal , like that in Musgrove v. Pandelis , that would probably be reluctantly followed by the Court of Appeal but would almost certainly be overruled by the House of Lords . |
| 13 | Theodora paused to speculate how , since a Holy Week retreat at St Sylvester 's would almost certainly be conducted in silence , these two communicated with each other . |
| 14 | If , though , the practice is a local one , with clients in one city or county , then a clause extending beyond that area would almost certainly be declared void . |
| 15 | The most immediate effect of the ruling was that legislation enacted in a number of states ( including Alabama , Idaho , Kansas , Maine , and North Dakota ) which continued similar provisions to those within the Pennsylvania law , but which had been beset by legal challenges , would almost certainly be declared constitutional . |
| 16 | It had to recognize , too , that while the German threat was the most immediate and damaging , any further setbacks would almost certainly be followed by a Japanese assault on Britain 's increasingly vulnerable possessions in the Far East . |
| 17 | A £150 million rights issue in October 1991 enabled MB-Caradon to pay off the bulk of its borrowings and selling its stake in Carnaud-Metalbox would almost certainly be followed by an acquisition in the building materials sector . |
| 18 | Finally , if income were plotted against another interval level variable , the relationship would almost certainly be curved rather than straight . |
| 19 | As no one individual or institution in the Czech Republic has $10 million to spend on a painting , the collection would almost certainly be split and leave Bohemia if it ever does come under the hammer . |
| 20 | But , even as he did so , he knew that such a small sign would almost certainly be missed . |
| 21 | He said Prost would almost certainly be granted his super licence , but said his behaviour in using ‘ insulting terms ’ in his criticism of FISA would still need to be considered by the world council next month . |
| 22 | Given that results would be used to allocate over £20 000 million per year , simply for the National Health Service and for the Block Grant , such a seemingly large expenditure would almost certainly be justified by improved efficiency in targeting expenditure . |
| 23 | I had applied to continue full-time research following my degree course , but this had been turned down by my chief officers ; however , I had been told that assistance for part-time study would almost certainly be approved in view of the national policy of encouraging officers to extend their educational qualifications . |
| 24 | Having flagged the issue and fired the interest of the minister , the Bank duo returned to the cooler , more workman-like atmosphere of life in Nairobi almost certain that sooner or later a project would go to the Bank board , and that it would almost certainly be approved . |
| 25 | Police , emergency services and military users would almost certainly be exempted from any auction . |
| 26 | Kasparov and Short have set up a breakaway Professional Chess Association , and are considering bids for a title match , which would almost certainly be staged in London . |
| 27 | It follows then that if a poor vein on a good tribute suddenly improved then the men working it would stand to profit well , though they might expect to find that on the next setting-day , the rate would almost certainly be reduced in the mine 's favour . |
| 28 | Coal would almost certainly be imported in greater quantities , in turn putting pressure on British Coal to keep its prices down . |
| 29 | If that was the case , he would almost certainly be disciplined . |
| 30 | These are given for illustration only , since in practice the first would almost certainly be classified under 624.151 along with all the other books on foundation soils and engineering geology . |