Example sentences of "almost [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wove these and other influences from Florentine contemporaries into a distinctive manner , at once responding to the plastic values of Donatello but never renouncing an almost calligraphic approach to outlines and drapery . |
| 2 | For comparison , omeprazole given subcutaneously at a dose of 30 mg/kg resulted in almost complete inhibition of acid output ( 12 ( 2 ) µmol/30 minutes ) and pepsin output ( 0.15 ( 0.04 ) mg/30 minutes ) . |
| 3 | The castle was begun by Henry de Lacy in 1282 ; Denbigh is also noted for the almost complete circuit of town walls . |
| 4 | An evening out of jobs between regions would be the first step in what , in the longer term , should aim to be an almost complete transfer of government jobs from areas of full employment into areas with the highest levels of unemployment . |
| 5 | At the highest levels by 1922 there was an almost complete overlap of personnel between party and Soviet committees . |
| 6 | Although there is almost complete freedom of trade , many traders choose not to do so in response to the prevailing wishes of their local communities . |
| 7 | The rule operates as an almost complete bar on over-the-counter ( OTC ) futures transactions for a private customer . |
| 8 | The members of the Royal Agricultural Society of England ( founded 1838 ) were invited to submit diseased animals to the College , but this met with an almost complete lack of response . |
| 9 | The almost complete lack of response , one way or the other , from the Masai , only seems to have encouraged these fantasies , because it provided an environment in which fantasy was rarely tested against reality . |
| 10 | The harder they are blown the more will the horns and tuba part company , until in ff there is an almost complete lack of blend . |
| 11 | Also , the USA exported its long experience with trying to deal with its own soil erosion problems , as a part of foreign policy to its sphere of influence in Latin America in the 1950s , where there had been an almost complete lack of government concern over soil erosion . |
| 12 | As a result of the secrecy which has traditionally surrounded donor insemination there is an almost complete lack of knowledge of how donor assisted families fare as the children grow up . |
| 13 | Despite his almost complete lack of English and the poor Italian the others possessed , several things had emerged . |
| 14 | A study by Jones ( Jones , 1983 ) provides detailed evidence on the almost complete lack of communication between examination boards and employers and on the uninformed and arbitrary way in which employers use qualifications . |
| 15 | Judged on the attendance , the almost complete lack of sectarianism , the productive political discussion in the workshops , and the constructive criticism , the event was more of a success than we had ever dared hope for . |
| 16 | On November 6 , 1975 , we played support at St Martin 's School of Art to a band called Bazooka Joe — which included a young man called Stuart Goddard , later to become Adam Ant and so obsessed by punk that he has an almost complete set of Seditionaries clothing . |
| 17 | The book also shows the extremely irritating parochialism of American textbooks in psychology , to wit an almost complete exclusion of papers and books not written in English . |
| 18 | One almost complete skeleton of Crassigyrinus had previously been known from only one skull fragment . |
| 19 | Bernard Donoughue noted ‘ the almost complete absence of discussion of economic policy . |
| 20 | It is in respect of bad human behaviour generally that the almost complete absence of condemnation from organised religion is so deplorable . |
| 21 | The almost complete absence of neon advertising signs from buildings and shop windows increased my sense of berg in an ancient city . |
| 22 | Antarctic zooplankton is characterized by an almost complete absence of larvae of benthic animals , and surface layers are rich in individuals but poor in species ; numbers of species tend to increase with depth ( Knox , 1970 ) . |
| 23 | judges enjoy an almost complete immunity in respect of acts — even corrupt and malicious acts , happily rare in our history — done by them in their judicial capacity . |
| 24 | Despite a return to civilian rule , first under Venecio Cerezo , then , since 1991 , under Jorge Serrano , the army remains firmly in control , and enjoys almost complete immunity from prosecution . |
| 25 | Burgeoning nature symbolises the creative process : in ‘ Out of Egypt ’ , for instance , branches bending towards the ground create an almost complete circle of growth and nurture . |
| 26 | Having to hastily reorganise the backs late in the week , Haslemere expected to be short of their usual firepower , but on the day this was further confounded by the late arrival of another two players and an almost complete breakdown in discipline . |
| 27 | Addition of phosphatidylethanolamine caused an almost complete shift of cholesterol to the vesicular phase . |
| 28 | Property and persons enjoyed almost complete security throughout Europe . |
| 29 | One eye may contain 15,000 elements , providing images that together constitute an almost hemispherical field of view . |
| 30 | It looked as though the repressive policy of James V had died with him , and that Scotland , presided over by Arran and the powerful Hamilton faction , was now moving with almost unbelievable ease towards alliance with England and some measure of Protestant reform . |