Example sentences of "been almost [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a tendency for the highly born to be preferred to the prince bishoprics of Germany ; and in the tenth and early eleventh centuries training to knightly pursuits had been almost a necessary qualification for a successful German bishop . |
| 2 | Merseyside or Tyneside there had been almost a general deindustrialization . |
| 3 | According to The Famous Grouse Director , Matthew Gloag , the company 's interest in the next year 's tournament in Edinburgh had been almost a foregone conclusion due to the enormous benefits of having been involved in the 1991 World Cup . |
| 4 | If she was not , then she must have been almost the only member of Edinburgh political society who managed to know nothing about it — and that in itself would be a comment on her political awareness . |
| 5 | It had been almost the unofficial waste basket papers were dumped there to be kept but no one had been through it carefully for perhaps a century . |