Example sentences of "and [noun sg] are almost " in BNC.
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| 1 | Building works and noise are almost unavoidable in certain developing resorts . |
| 2 | Now that credit and mobility are almost universally available , catalogues have lost much of their appeal . |
| 3 | Today the intermingled old streets and waterfront are almost suffocated by grain warehouses . |
| 4 | This can be seen in the example of river action : in climates with rain at all seasons erosion and deposition are almost continuous except in so far as they are varied by floods ; in areas marginal to ice sheets the short periods of summer thaw , which result in enormous increases in the discharge of meltwater streams issuing from the ice , are the significant ones ; in deserts it may well be that the isolated rainfall , occurring perhaps once every five or ten years , is of greater significance than anything else . |
| 5 | A neutron and proton are almost identical but while the proton has positive charge , the neu tron has none — it is neu tral . |
| 6 | Even so there is enough in these spaces and in the ‘ Eating Room ’ and the Drawing Room , the one with its amazing Chinoiserie woodwork , the other with its airy flight of hoho birds and pheasants , to provide one of the 18th century 's most satisfying interior sequences , one where discipline and imagination are almost perfectly balanced . |
| 7 | judging by the way in which the discrete skills of listening , speaking , reading and writing are almost invariably discussed separately , it seems likely that the commonly recommended classroom activities will fail to integrate these skills in terms of complete forms of communication |
| 8 | Mum and Dad are almost here . ’ |
| 9 | Once again , the geographies of growth and decline are almost mirror-images of each other . |
| 10 | The classic Hollywood narrative , he proposes , in a manner quite similar to Bakhtin 's , is defined by the centrality of a logic of causation to which character is central , and to which space and time are always subordinate : ‘ In the Hollywood style the systems do not play equal roles : space and time are almost invariably made vehicles for narrative causality ’ . |