Example sentences of "it [be] almost [adv] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is almost completely obscured by the tree which surrounds it and hides the light under its foliage . |
| 2 | It is almost always determined by commercial considerations . |
| 3 | Can you not imagine the world-wide reaction when it is learnt that not only is America responsible for this potential disaster but that it was almost certainly caused by treason in the highest American military echelons ? |
| 4 | It was almost certainly acquired by George III who had it bound in the present red morocco , gilt tooled binding which has been reproduced for the facsimile . |
| 5 | The demands of the barren Breckland effectively squeezed the more affluent sort of peasant out of Lackford hundred , where nine out of ten taxpayers were worth less than £5 , and with scarcely anybody in the £5-£19 range , it was almost entirely peopled by big farmers and swarms of poor labourers . |