Example sentences of "almost [adv] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not intended to be nomination in the traditional sense and once the subcontractor has been named ( subject to reasonable objection by the contractor if the naming is during the course of the contract ) , that subcontractor becomes almost entirely the responsibility of the contractor . |
| 2 | Standard-setting for central government is almost entirely the responsibility of the Treasury , taking the Exchequer and Audit Department Act 1866 as the statutory basis . |
| 3 | But it is important to see that the great European population changes which are almost entirely the work of the last century and a half are not just of statistical interest . |
| 4 | Mozambique 's new IMF programme is almost entirely the work of Washington draughtsmen . |
| 5 | Watercolours — always an English passion — seem to have become almost entirely the preserve of elderly amateur or semi-professional artists . |
| 6 | Eastcote , who have just acquired an Australian coach , Mark McCrea , have a team who are almost entirely the product of their successful colts scheme . |
| 7 | Eastcote , who have just acquired an Australian coach , Mark McCrea , have a team who are almost entirely the product of their successful colts scheme . |
| 8 | I accept almost entirely the statement of faith except for one phrase accepting that God is love I have difficulty in reconciling he who created the universe , who is love , with the tempest , the earthquake the great white shark and the crocodile . |
| 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 | The present landscape of all the eastern fenlands , from Lincoln to Cambridge , is almost entirely the creation of the mid-seventeenth century and later . |
| 11 | With the volume of trading at its highest recorded level , the leading FT-SE 100 index of top British companies jumped 150 points at one stage before settling 136.2 points ahead at 2572.6 — almost exactly the level at which the stock market stood when Chancellor Norman Lamont began his Budget address one month ago . |
| 12 | ‘ Is that quite all right ? ’ he asked , and I was able to say that it was — it 's almost exactly the size of the poor old tray . |
| 13 | The Home Secretary pointed out in the debate on the Metropolitan police that Sir Peter Imbert had said that the map of deprivation matched almost exactly the map of crime in London . |
| 14 | The next two diphthongs are almost exactly the opposite of each other and therefore less likely to be confused . |
| 15 | And if I could put that half a million pounds in context , as I tried to do in an amendment in Council yesterday evening , that is almost exactly the increase in charging for people going to day care facilities . |
| 16 | DMB&B , it transpires , is D'Arcy Masius Benton and Bowles which employs around 350 people almost exactly the number of clergy in the Diocese of Durham and is one of the country 's leading agencies . |
| 17 | While it is probably advisable for the church to aim for a low profile in the small , stable , face-to-face village community , the opposite is almost always the case in the urban and suburban scene . |
| 18 | In particular , there is almost always the problem of determining whether the ‘ findings ’ are findings about crime and criminals , or about the assumptions , beliefs and stereotypes of those who ‘ label ’ people as criminals . |
| 19 | The beginning of a marriage is almost always the occasion for a transfer of valuables in the form of wedding presents , marriage settlements , token gifts . |
| 20 | Of course it is true that sometimes humans have to intervene in order to prevent the worst from happening — almost always the result of previous human intervention . |
| 21 | Whilst we can not deny the odd typographical error on our part , these problems are almost always the result of a lack of clarity on the part of the caller . |
| 22 | He recalled as almost yesterday the advertisement in The Times for an experienced administrator to join a new security organization . |
| 23 | Almost imperceptibly the mood of the men began to change in the 1790s in favour of more continuous combination . |
| 24 | The acquired form of the disease is almost invariably the result of sexual activity with an infected person , while congenital syphilis , as its name implies , is passed on passively while the developing foetus is in utero . |
| 25 | Saprolegnia is not a primary disease , but almost invariably the result of the spores invading an already damaged site — a wound or abrasion ( which , incidentally , is prone to bacterial invasion , too , unless properly treated ) . |
| 26 | The modernization/diversification sector is all other manufacturing which is almost invariably the product of regional policy , has no inherent geographical rationale for its location and is characteristically based on industrial estates . |
| 27 | " Traditional " language learning emphasised almost exclusively the understanding of the grammar of the language . |
| 28 | It is known that this is almost exclusively the result of the age related increase in the prevalence of H pylori infection . |
| 29 | The natural warmth of the mahogany is a perfect foil for the P90s ’ tonal characteristics and recalls almost precisely the sound of an old Les Paul Junior . |
| 30 | Hence in late nineteenth-century France the aged were already a more prominent group , almost twice the proportion in England at the same time : indeed , there were proportionally somewhat fewer old in booming Victorian England than in 1700 . |