Example sentences of "almost devoid [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ted 's apartment was in the East Village , an assortment of dank rooms almost devoid of furniture but with a variety of rugs and cushions and mattresses scattered around the floor . |
| 2 | Other regions that on the face of it may seem rather benign — including open reaches of tropical ocean — may , for long periods , be almost devoid of life . |
| 3 | At 8.30 on a weekday morning , with rain swirling spitefully down , the focal point of the joyride riots seems almost devoid of life . |
| 4 | On the open surface of the plateau , soils are thin and in many areas almost devoid of cover , the bare rock surfaces displaying the appearance of a limestone pavement , dissected by a rectangular grid of fissures . |
| 5 | It is tempting to suppose that making pictures is almost devoid of theory ; but no artist was ever really a kind of camera , and both theory and fashion entered into scientific illustration . |
| 6 | Apart from the children immediately below , the scene was almost devoid of movement . |
| 7 | Her letters had been so short of late , and almost devoid of news . |
| 8 | Thirdly , both arid and glacial climates leave the landforms bare and almost devoid of vegetation and , since the regions as a rule are infertile , natural forms are left unobscured by the activities of man . |