Example sentences of "it can almost be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can almost be considered a law of human nature that punishment leads to self-control only when the child is on the side of the person punishing . |
| 2 | The difference between the evangelicals and the others is so great that it can almost be said that growth in the diocese as a whole is restricted to evangelical parishes . |
| 3 | Chain , which was introduced in 1811 , could be stowed in a small damp locker and so it can almost be said that chain cleared the space needed below for engines and coal bunkers . |
| 4 | The overseas economy of Kent was the most developed in early Anglo-Saxon England ; so strong is this overseas flavour of the Kentish economy and its society ; that it can almost be seen as part of the Continent rather than the rest of England at this time . |
| 5 | Indeed , it can almost be read as inviting the supposition that industrial democracy , in that prescription , differs only in degree from current practices of consultation ; is to that extent already customary ; and is therefore unobjectionable and , as a ‘ democratic imperative ’ , inevitable . |