Example sentences of "[art] almost total [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In architectural terms this is evidenced in the smaller , narrower windows , lack of intricate tracery or coloured glass , the almost total lack of development of the flying buttress system , the poverty of decoration in sculpture and carving . |
| 2 | It was designed to be used when knitting pile and drive lace — though I suspect from the almost total lack of drive lace and pile garments that I 've seen , or rather not seen , that is used at all it 's mainly with the rib transfer carriage ! |
| 3 | To judge from the very wide circulation of the decisions on these details , in contrast to the almost total lack of circulation of the earlier decrees , this concentration of effort was the right policy ; but it took at least another two generations before the aim , which Anselm in 1102 had been confident could quickly be reached , was achieved . |
| 4 | Despite the defeat of the current plotters , the main danger to the government was of another coup attempt , which was seen by many as almost inevitable , given the high level of politicization within the armed forces , the almost total lack of respect for the Constitution , and the inability of the President to move decisively and quickly enough against the disaffected elements . |
| 5 | This system proved almost exactly equal in structural efficiency , that is in weight , to wood and fabric with the advantage of a smoother outside surface and the almost total elimination of airframe maintenance . |
| 6 | In the almost total absence of information there can be no interest in systematizing procedures in the manner of the Victoria Centre . |
| 7 | Amnesty International , whose first permitted mission to Sri Lanka since 1982 had taken place in June , published on Sept. 10 a report criticizing the security forces for thousands of killings , and for routinely murdering suspected Tamil guerrillas " with an almost total sense of immunity " . |
| 8 | From what seems now like an almost total lack of concern when the news of the virus first reached the organization , there is currently a major emphasis within the organization and a constant campaign of re-education of both callers and volunteers . |
| 9 | Here there is an almost total lack of communication between our politicians and the mass of the British people . |
| 10 | His Education Survey 2 Drama ( 1967 ) , totally lacking in officialese , lucidly , wittily reports on a rag-bag of activities done in the name of drama and with an almost total lack of rationale behind the subject . |
| 11 | As most similar opinion polls show , there is an almost total lack of consensus , both on the unionist and nationalist sides . |
| 12 | They showed ‘ an almost total lack of awareness ’ of the roles of nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons in producing ground-level ozone . |
| 13 | When in 1937 Mussolini , like Hitler , intervened in support of Franco in the Spanish Civil War , and again when he annexed Libya in October 1938 , the ordinary inhabitants of Fontanellato showed an almost total lack of interest ; principally , again , because none of them were involved . |
| 14 | The most controversial feature was the building of new fortifications at considerable cost and , as it proved , an almost total waste of money and effort . |
| 15 | The whole performance was an almost total waste of time , and was accompanied by a belief that it was necessary to demonstrate that one was working long hours in the evenings , and preferably all weekends as well . |
| 16 | Recorded in Studio No. 1 , Abbey Road , the Ravel quartet balance is characterized by an almost total absence of reverberation yet does not sound overly clinical . |
| 17 | As Gibbs ( 1975 , p. 11 ) points out , in a book marking a later resurgence of interest , the positivist eclipse of classicism led to an almost total loss of interest in deterrence in the writings of criminologists , even when they were considering ‘ policy questions pertaining to the control of crime ’ ; and he gives many examples . |
| 18 | In his earlier work , Schoenberg reached for an almost total emancipation of dissonance in ‘ atonality ’ . |