Example sentences of "almost [adv] [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sanders found that Somerset was almost wholly hostile to coalition , and Middlesex and London were both equally critical . |
| 2 | Both dos Santos and other leading MPLA-PT figures admitted the relative failure of the party 's collectivist economic policies which , compounded by the civil war , had left the economy almost wholly dependent on revenue from oil exports — which were particularly vulnerable to UNITA attack . |
| 3 | The workforce has been restricted from 2000 17 years ago and this has been almost entirely due to investment in modern technology . |
| 4 | The loss of smooth grasslands ( the most amenable to agricultural improvement ) is almost entirely attributable to agriculture . |
| 5 | The increase in sales is almost entirely attributable to growth in volume , not to price increases , reported Glaxo 's chairman , Sir Paul Girolami . |
| 6 | It is for this reason that provisions in Conventions dealing with commercial contracts are almost entirely dispositive in nature , the parties being left free to exclude the relevant Convention entirely or to vary or derogate from its effects . |
| 7 | Travel and tourism is now the world 's biggest industry , and many countries are almost entirely dependent on tourism . |
| 8 | The parish council in the nearest village , Stogursey , whose close-knit community was almost entirely dependent on farming , welcomed it as ‘ a real blood transfusion ’ . |
| 9 | Japan is almost entirely dependent on oil imports for all its basic energy requirements , having no fossil fuel deposits . |
| 10 | Though Danzig was by this time 90 per cent Protestant and almost entirely German in character and culture , the city still feared the worst from Prussian rule . |
| 11 | Almost painfully avant-garde in style , it nevertheless remains a landmark in post-Soviet literature . |
| 12 | Feminist authors such as Jeffreys , like the conservative historians , are almost unremittingly critical of permissiveness and its products . |
| 13 | While doing housework they are responsible for children and must know what the children are doing : while looking after children they are almost always involved in housework activities . |
| 14 | It is almost always present in potato crops . |
| 15 | It 's winter , but it 's warm ; the conditions almost always ideal for freefall training . |
| 16 | Certainly her marriage involved financial sacrifice and for the rest of her life she was almost always short of money . |
| 17 | According to Tillyard , however , true cross-veins are later developments ; they are never preceded by tracheae and are almost always devoid of macrotrichia . |
| 18 | Thus , for Scottish legitimate births : Note , however , that in the presence of birth control , fertility is almost more dependent on duration of marriage than on age itself . |
| 19 | User opinion , while not to be completely disregarded , is almost totally valueless in respect of performance as judgement is too often obscured by extraneous factors . |
| 20 | However , the kind of graph theory which mathematicians investigate is almost totally irrelevant for computing , and even the basic definitions which computing people use are not always the standard graph theoretic ones . |
| 21 | The LCP are recorded more closely ( note entirely to the violins ' advantage in the busier moments of the outer movements ) , and although this lends a welcome clarity , I find the results almost totally devoid of charm . |
| 22 | What an indictment it is that people wholly dependent on the state pension , with no other source of income , are now almost automatically eligible for income support . |
| 23 | This goes back to the very infancy of the cinema , when the camera was hand-cranked and therefore almost instantly variable in speed . |
| 24 | Her only comments at dinner afterwards as she gorged herself on tournedos , raspberries and cream and St Emilion were that Shylock was almost as beady about money as Alejandro and that Bassanio was a wimp . |
| 25 | We have looked upon it almost as convertible with thought , of which we have called it the very stuff and process . |
| 26 | It was far from easy to predict that the seamen would repeat the role which they had assumed in I887 as the prime movers in a wave of industrial unrest almost as notable in labour history as the period encompassing the Great London Dock Strike and the three years that followed . |
| 27 | It may well strain belief that eight hours of enjoyment can make primary school children comfortable with chemical ideas that are being chopped out of GCSE syllabuses , yet this much and more can be achieved by challenging a teaching tradition that is almost as unhelpful to chemistry as phlogiston was . |
| 28 | Wars are almost as disastrous for wildlife as they are for humans . |
| 29 | For an established monarch the major conflicts with other rulers were almost inevitably concerned with land , and more particularly with the question of the divisions of the kingdom . |
| 30 | Then in his mid-thirties and not entirely happy with his pictures , he turned to sculpture and was almost immediately successful with work in the round . |