Example sentences of "almost [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's almost entirely a matter for management , ’ says Martin Taylor , deputy chairman of Hanson , the industrial conglomerate and one of Britain 's biggest companies . |
| 2 | In both cases the problem of strength and weakness is almost entirely a matter of surface smoothness . |
| 3 | Legitimacy , then , is almost entirely a matter of sentiment . |
| 4 | After his first book , A London Farrago , appeared in 1921 , he published almost annually a volume of satire or humour , but he had a parallel career as a biographer , writing vigorous and scholarly lives of writers like Villon ( 1928 ) , Ronsard ( 1944 ) , Rabelais ( 1957 ) , Molière ( 1959 ) , and Cervantes ( 1962 ) ; studies of Louis XI ( King Spider , 1930 ) , and Charles V ( Emperor of the West , 1932 ) . |
| 5 | At the time of marriage there is almost always a sense of , " it could n't happen to us , " but once marital difficulty arises the consideration of divorce as a solution is of itself more easy . |
| 6 | It is almost always a lack of storage space , or the fact that the file is dynamic and so can not be loaded in a single operation , that prevents self-indexing , and not the time taken to carry out the calculations . |
| 7 | The presence of free ammonia or of protein material is almost always an indication of contamination of the water with sewage or trade effluents , such as gas liquor . |
| 8 | Did you ever have the feeling that you were almost more a part of management that you were a representative of the workforce ? |
| 9 | However , this is almost more a problem of consistency . |
| 10 | Premarital pregnancy was therefore almost invariably a link between institutional care and later depression . |
| 11 | Her birth is almost invariably a disappointment to her family ( because it is not a son who has been born ) . |
| 12 | In East Punjab these were usually the same man , almost invariably a Brahmin by caste . |
| 13 | The Slovene Assembly on Feb. 20 adopted almost unanimously a resolution on the " disassociation of Slovenia from Yugoslavia " . |
| 14 | In most RMI contexts , this new structure has become almost universally a version of the clinical directorate model . |
| 15 | Other physical effects of training include a reduction in blood fat levels and almost certainly a reduction of about 20% in recurrence rate of myocardial infarction and , in the long-term , mortality . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | " It 's almost certainly a case of manual throttling . |
| 18 | A once unprovenance mosaic drawn by Lysons , thought to be from Cirencester , almost certainly a drawing of that in room 1 , Halstock , Dorset : pls. 68 and 70. 4 . |
| 19 | This expansion was almost certainly a result of a complex interaction between soil degradation , human impact , grazing , bog development , and , possibly , climatic change . |
| 20 | A painting of a male head , which is almost certainly a study for the figure of the sailor that Picasso originally intended to place in the centre of the composition , while it is bolder and sketchier than a work like the Self-Portrait , shows all the earlier Iberian devices . |
| 21 | The figure of 4 per cent of right handers with right sided speech is almost certainly an over-estimate of the extent of right sided speech among right handers in general . |