Example sentences of "almost [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That at least was an attitude that owed almost nothing to the Civil Service . |
| 2 | It is a staggering compliment to their historical reliability that we find almost nothing of the major concerns which engaged the primitive Church written back into the Gospels . |
| 3 | So cogent and imaginative were his descriptions and inferences that his name remains well known today even though almost nothing in the same vein has followed from his work . |
| 4 | The emphasis is , therefore , on the conjugal bond , to such an extent that marriage has become an index of ‘ normality ’ or ‘ settling down ’ and is now a status formally open to almost everyone of the appropriate age [ … ] . |
| 5 | The EP rapporteur Geoffrey Hoon ( UK , Labour ) explained : ‘ The collection and processing of data permeates the daily life of almost everyone in the European Community , concern grows over possible abuses . |
| 6 | Unlike almost everyone in the papal Curia , unlike the pope himself , he did not understand the need for compromise ; he saw no grounds for withdrawal or discussion ; he took pleasure in obedience . |
| 7 | The paradox of counselling is that almost everyone in the caring professions believes that he or she is a " natural " counsellor when in fact very few have that natural skill . |
| 8 | But the suspension also meant that Coker was able to whizz back to Oz for a two-week training camp in Brisbane with Queensland to return having served his time and he missed almost none of the domestic season . |
| 9 | Almost everything about the French mood in 1945 suggests that unqualified independence was just about the last thing that anyone envisaged for any part of the French colonial empire . |
| 10 | And I went to the video edit and they 'd used almost everything from the sexy take , it was really over-the-top , ’ she sighs . |