Example sentences of "almost [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An unbroken plain of white stretched to the far horizon , only the faintest shadings of light indicating any variation in the almost dead flat land . |
| 2 | It was , she thought , an almost indecently incongruous remark with which to begin a visit of condolence ; or was this his way of confronting her grief and stoicism by taking refuge on professional ground , the only one on which he felt confident and could speak with authority ? |
| 3 | Terling ( pronounced Tarling ) was an almost wholly agricultural parish , anciently enclosed , and for the most part devoted to mixed farming , with some emphasis on wheat and dairying . |
| 4 | Reagan 's presidency may prove to have been the high watermark of the US-Israeli alliance , combining an unprecedented commitment to military co-operation with an almost wholly uncritical view of Israel . |
| 5 | Lacan has been very influential , although he is an almost impenetrably obscure writer . |
| 6 | He was continually having to fetch new Calor-gas cylinders from the general store in Lydsett village and steam from the almost constantly boiling kettle made the caravan a damp mist . |
| 7 | Scotland 's accelerated industrial development , within what was still in many respects a primitive agrarian society , meant that the archetypes of country and town , nature and manufacture , adopted an almost grotesquely heightened stance as they entered literary language . |
| 8 | Apart from the almost unspeakably dense prose , I had written the piece in three different colours of pen ( NME is professional , not a fanzine ; you have to type everything ) and signed the piece ‘ Dele Heroin ’ which was too close in pronunciation to ‘ Deal Heroin ’ for comfort . |
| 9 | Cramlington is an example of an almost entirely cooperative relationship . |
| 10 | A specific interest of the almost entirely male chamber was to focus on the defendant . |
| 11 | Its growth can only continue with the now almost entirely entrenched position that headhunting has achieved in American corporate life . |
| 12 | All was linked to the sense of a new departure , a " new style " , a " new regime in politics " and a new team at the helm : as well as a new leader , the party had by the middle of 1912 a new Chief Whip , Party Chairman , party treasurer , principal agent , press adviser , and an almost entirely new team of Whips and organizers . |
| 13 | Others , such as the discount houses ( as we shall see later ) , have assets that are almost entirely short term . |
| 14 | Seeing as an electric guitar becomes an almost entirely different animal at high volume , how do you compensate for that when you practise ? |
| 15 | The truth was , Froebe 's almost entirely military life had left him unable to cope with anyone who was n't either a bloodthirsty volunteer , or a conscript to be whipped into shape . |
| 16 | This is at its most extreme for lung cancer , which is an almost entirely avoidable cause of death ( i.e. it is strongly associated with smoking ) . |
| 17 | The characteristics described were almost entirely physical showing where the basic anxieties lie . |
| 18 | Almost exactly one year after the Handsworth riots , 600 police moved into the area to search several premises in connection with drugs and drinking offences . |
| 19 | This total of 1,885 hectares is almost exactly one half of one per cent . |
| 20 | Since 1981 , the Centre has received some funding from the city which now provides an annual budget of SFr390,000 ( £177,250 ; $248,000 ) , covering almost exactly one half of its operating costs of SFr 800,000 . |
| 21 | In reading it , it may be helpful to bear in mind the generalization that the life of the College falls broadly into two epochs each lasting almost exactly one century . |
| 22 | Moose Jaw was almost exactly half way . |
| 23 | Öhman ( 1983 ) reaches almost exactly this conclusion on the basis of formally equivalent experiments investigating conditioning of the human skin conductance response , as do Svendsrød and Ursin ( 1974 ) in their analysis of the acquisition of a conditioned emotional response by rats . |
| 24 | Like many Throwing Muses tracks ‘ Not Too Soon ’ is an almost painfully introspective piece of writing yet it moves and shakes with all the swagger of glib pop . |
| 25 | The various classes of ordinary business investor are : ( 1 ) A company that has , or has a holding company or subsidiary that has , net assets or a called up share capital of £5,000,000 ( or , if it or a holding company has over 20 members , £500,000 ) ; quoted companies and their subsidiaries are therefore almost always ordinary business investors . |
| 26 | There is almost always total consensus in an organization on the best and the worst performance , although there is rarely any agreement at all about the ranking of the group in between . |
| 27 | Solvent based cleaners : The active base of these products is almost always butoxy ethanol solvent . |
| 28 | The women I spoke to were almost always subsidiary wage earners ; the money they brought in was essential for survival but was not the main wage of the family and their jobs were often far more unpleasant than their husband 's . |
| 29 | Chris will state the legal position , helping to sort out individual problems and informing readers of their rights before they get into that sticky , embarrassing , sometimes costly and almost always avoidable involvement with solicitors and the courts . |
| 30 | If many banks and lagoons are at very similar depths , it would mean a remarkably and almost incomprehensibly uniform subsidence over a very large area , confined , incidentally , largely to tropical and especially tropical oceanic areas . |