Example sentences of "almost [prep] [noun sg] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A distinctive feature of the Dolls ' House was that almost without exception every item in it was specifically commissioned and an integral part of the whole gift — only a few pieces in the house were found in the antique trade or private collections . |
| 2 | There was some similarity among the headlines where there was almost without exception an attempt at a catch-line . |
| 3 | Back at the end of the nineteenth century , the Milanese anatomist Camillo Golgi had discovered almost by chance a stain , based on the use of silver salts , which has the capacity to select out , seemingly at random , a small proportion of the neurons in a section of tissue and stain each immaculately , revealing every last detail not just of its cell body but also the dendrites and even the myriad little spines which stud the dendrites ' surfaces . |
| 4 | ‘ Mantle of the expert ’ for example , is almost by definition a way of working from an angle of detachment . |
| 5 | Almost by definition the manufacturing assets of the company are out of date the moment they are put up , because of the march of technology ( the purpose of management is , after all , continually to improve things ) . |
| 6 | But to take it as the question of international policy is to preclude almost by definition the construction of more cooperative approaches . |