Example sentences of "almost total [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here there is an almost total lack of communication between our politicians and the mass of the British people . |
| 2 | His Education Survey 2 Drama ( 1967 ) , totally lacking in officialese , lucidly , wittily reports on a rag-bag of activities done in the name of drama and with an almost total lack of rationale behind the subject . |
| 3 | In architectural terms this is evidenced in the smaller , narrower windows , lack of intricate tracery or coloured glass , the almost total lack of development of the flying buttress system , the poverty of decoration in sculpture and carving . |
| 4 | To judge from the very wide circulation of the decisions on these details , in contrast to the almost total lack of circulation of the earlier decrees , this concentration of effort was the right policy ; but it took at least another two generations before the aim , which Anselm in 1102 had been confident could quickly be reached , was achieved . |
| 5 | In fact , Branson 's almost total lack of interest in music had been an advantage . |
| 6 | Despite the defeat of the current plotters , the main danger to the government was of another coup attempt , which was seen by many as almost inevitable , given the high level of politicization within the armed forces , the almost total lack of respect for the Constitution , and the inability of the President to move decisively and quickly enough against the disaffected elements . |
| 7 | As might be expected , there is almost total differentiation amongst teachers with respect to the potential of the scheme for inducing schools to change . |
| 8 | From the age of six onward , Vologsky had been able to apply almost total recall to figures of any sort . |
| 9 | As Gibbs ( 1975 , p. 11 ) points out , in a book marking a later resurgence of interest , the positivist eclipse of classicism led to an almost total loss of interest in deterrence in the writings of criminologists , even when they were considering ‘ policy questions pertaining to the control of crime ’ ; and he gives many examples . |
| 10 | Ablation of area 17 leads to almost total loss of cells in the dorsal lateral geniculate body , a process known as retrograde degeneration . |
| 11 | He recorded the simple lifestyle of the islanders , and described their legendary prowess as cragsmen , imposed no doubt by their almost total dependence upon sea-birds for food . |
| 12 | In particular , Milner , Taylor and Sperry ( 1968 ) and Sparks and Geschwind ( 1968 ) found that split-brain patients were able to repeat digits presented to either ear alone but showed almost total absence of report of digits presented to the left ear when different digits were simultaneously presented to the right ear . |
| 13 | Disenfranchisement takes place in a second , procedural , sense , by virtue of the almost total absence of opportunities for ordinary people to take part in , and effectively contribute to the decision-making process at whatever level , in the outcome of which they feel they have an interest . |
| 14 | In reality the change of allegiance brought almost total autonomy in return for an annual payment of 500 ducats and the support of the Ragusan fleet in time of war . |
| 15 | In his earlier work , Schoenberg reached for an almost total emancipation of dissonance in ‘ atonality ’ . |