Example sentences of "almost [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of Foulston 's work was in the Greek Revival style — which it was his role almost single-handedly to propagate in the area — but his best-known project was the extraordinary group of buildings erected at Ker Street , Devonport , in 1821–4 , an extreme example of the Picturesque stylistic eclecticism of the early nineteenth century . |
| 2 | In Britain , for example , successive governments have managed to almost wholly withdraw from the provision of public sector housing . |
| 3 | Expression of all the xenobiotic metabolising enzymes studied was almost wholly confined to the epithelial cells , whether in normal , adenoma or carcinoma samples , except that cytochrome P450 3A was also identified in mast cells and glutathione S-transferase γ was also present in chronic inflammatory cells . |
| 4 | The old Minister of Health , 1949–64 , was responsible to Parliament directly for the hospital services , being almost wholly provided by the taxpayer , and indirectly for the health and welfare services provided partly out of the rates and partly out of taxes by local authorities . |
| 5 | Sheikha Grandmother 's mind was now almost wholly concentrated upon the Qur'an , its words and their inner meanings . |
| 6 | And for historically minded exploitation devotees , there is Terror Train ( MGM/UA ) , made in 1980 and one of umpteen contemporaneous movies patterned after Halloween , but with the novelty of being almost wholly set aboard a train . |
| 7 | Indeed , classical criminology is almost entirely constituted by the one , short book that he wrote , Dei Delitti e delle Pene in 1764 ( Beccaria , 1963 ) . |
| 8 | The immediate answer is the hides as such , almost entirely come from the British Royal Hides which are tanned in this country and then er , find their way back to Walsall er for the saddlery trade . |
| 9 | The first fifty or so milliseconds of these waves are the most consistent for any particular stimulus and it is thought that they are almost entirely generated by the incoming stimulus , irrespective of any mental activity on the part of the subject . |
| 10 | Peers are nowadays almost entirely appointed on the advice of the Prime Minister although the monarch does retain the right to confer personally and occasionally exercises it in the case of eminently deserving elder statesmen and suchlike . |
| 11 | The former kitchen had been made into a small dining room almost entirely filled with an early Victorian table and set of six chairs which were undeniably the real thing . |
| 12 | The visiting officer found him living in one room which was almost entirely filled by a double bed . |
| 13 | Thus the Hire Purchase Acts 1938 – 1965 have been almost entirely repealed by the CCA 1974 , and the rights and duties of the parties involved in a hire purchase contract are similar to those of parties to a sale of goods , in which the consumer has obtained credit , whether from the seller or a third party . |
| 14 | In his last years , Stalin lived almost entirely secluded from the public gaze . |
| 15 | The evidence for such changes from past excavations is rarely satisfactory and is almost entirely based on the coins , which , in many cases , is far too slight to offer more than a hint . |
| 16 | To put it broadly — ignoring all the smaller points of detail — one landscape has grown up piecemeal over centuries , the other is almost entirely planned on a large scale . |
| 17 | Hammersmith 's portfolio was almost entirely geared to an expectation that low interest rates in 1987-88 would remain . |
| 18 | It is a period almost entirely ignored by the chroniclers , whose emphasis on the dramatic has the effect of telescoping these weeks . |
| 19 | It is a period almost entirely ignored by the chroniclers , whose emphasis on the dramatic has the effect of telescoping these weeks . |
| 20 | Although the work of this Committee was almost entirely organized by the Communist Party , it was supported by most of the labour movement . |
| 21 | Other of the portraits in Fortunatus 's poems are more classical ; Chilperic is described in terms of his military prowess , his justice and his culture , but Sigibert , especially in the epithalamium celebrating his marriage to Brunhild , is depicted in terms derived almost entirely derived from the Roman past . |
| 22 | As regards the public perception of the term ‘ antique ’ , I think it would be fair to say that a great many of today 's most eminent collectors , particularly in America , and public institutions , are definitely beginning to interpret the word far more loosely than its previously accepted definition of ‘ a hundred years old ’ and , it is clearly a great shame that two of the most original and internationally influential artistic styles ever to emerge in Britain are almost entirely excluded from the Fair : the Arts and Crafts Movement and Art Nouveau , on the basis of age . |
| 23 | Almost entirely surrounded by a circle of water that formed part of the original fortifications , and still linked to its neighbours and the port of Zeebrugge about eight miles away by canals , Bruges ' attraction is that its medieval architecture is remarkably intact . |
| 24 | At one function staged by the Party in Schweinfurt in October 1940 , for example , the local population turned out in force to welcome U-Boat veterans at a recruiting session for the navy , but the same people ‘ were almost entirely missing at the other functions of the NSDAP ’ . |
| 25 | During the campaign , however , broader EC issues were almost entirely overshadowed by the controversial issue of abortion , and whether the Irish Constitution 's restrictive abortion provisions could be affected by EC rights to freedom of movement and information . |
| 26 | Among the sometimes rather speculative theories about these movements of peoples one thing is certain : contrary to the facile generalizations of many historians whose interest is almost entirely focused on the Russian element in Siberia , this vast area of northern Asia was not an ‘ empty ’ land in the sixteenth century . |
| 27 | Although the development officers ’ budget was almost entirely used for the payment of support workers it could also be used for the purchase of goods ( for example a single bed for a client coming out of hospital ) but not for the purchase of other services . |
| 28 | In his Mornings on the Seine series , with their hushed and delicate mood , the brushwork is almost entirely effaced into the flat , matt surface . |
| 29 | By the beginning of the seventeenth century the secretary hand had been almost entirely superseded by the ‘ Italian ’ hand , introduced in Henry VII 's reign by his Latin secretary . |
| 30 | Embalming was rarely practised during the eighteenth century and it had almost entirely disappeared during the nineteenth century . |