Example sentences of "have [be] almost " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another interesting aspect that has been almost entirely neglected concerns horizontal influences in near and distant gubernii . |
| 2 | There has been almost a hush about tonight 's event . |
| 3 | But its better way , whereby once bidders pass a quality threshold franchises are awarded to the highest bid , has been almost universally condemned for putting money before quality of service , and as a ludicrous attempt to avoid exercising judgment over a vital decision . |
| 4 | Italy has also provided extensive coverage , while in New Zealand there has been almost saturation screening of races , no doubt fuelled by the hope that , although the All Blacks and their cricket team failed to win their respective World Cups , New Zealand sailors can go all the way and clinch the oldest international sporting trophy in the world . |
| 5 | The workforce has been restricted from 2000 17 years ago and this has been almost entirely due to investment in modern technology . |
| 6 | Indeed it has been almost necessary for the agricultural industry to ignore it in order to develop the modern chemical systems of farming . |
| 7 | In the case of an inflected language or one with many and various verb-forms , it has been almost impossible for teachers to adapt to the new methods . |
| 8 | Since oil still accounts for over 25% of foreign exchange earnings and some 65% of total revenue the effect of the past five years has been almost cataclysmic . |
| 9 | Love has inspired more mystical utterances than any other human emotions ; for some saints and mystics , it has been almost the whole of religion . |
| 10 | GIS research into site selection for non-nuclear hazardous waste has been almost exclusively conducted in North America and has yet to be matched in the UK . |
| 11 | Firstly , the political/social stability of the UK attracts foreign representation in London while the risk of British governmental interference has been almost minimal , so far . |
| 12 | In general , though , the feedback to theory from many social enquiries has been almost incidental , since much research actually concerned with collecting first-hand information has been orientated to solving practical social problems , and much theoretical work has not been backed up by actual field investigations . |
| 13 | In most libraries user education activity fluctuates from year to year ; a bewildering range of teaching methods and teaching materials has been tried and applied ; and a discernible pattern of development in the programmes has been almost impossible to trace . |
| 14 | So far the subject of fractals has been almost entirely descriptive . |
| 15 | Where until two years ago , the scattering of currants near the door was eagerly awaited by a clamouring mix of blackbirds , starling , robins and a songthrush or two , lately there has been almost an indifference to the largesse . |
| 16 | Others in their early 20s will obviously feature in the selectors ' deliberations for the full tour of Australia , starting in November , that marks the beginning of a new era for West Indies more appropriately than the proliferation of one-day tournaments to which Richie Richardson 's reshaped team has been almost exclusively confined . |
| 17 | Testing for 14 year olds has been almost as great a disaster : the first pilot scheme was abandoned halfway through at a cost of £8 million . |
| 18 | It is astonishing to think that in the forty-odd years after the invention of printing , no fewer than ninety-four editions came off the presses of Europe ; and that for four centuries there has been almost no year in which a new edition has not appeared in England . |
| 19 | The company 's workforce has been almost halved to 102 in three years . |
| 20 | BILL HICKS has been almost as ubiquitous in our media during recent weeks as Bill Clinton . |
| 21 | One of the greatest historic collections of classical sculpture has been almost inaccessible since it was acquired by the Italian State in 1901 . |
| 22 | For a number of years now Berman has been almost as elusive as before his ‘ breakthrough ’ in the mid-1970s , and it is good to hear such a distinctive pianist now resuming activity . |
| 23 | Predictably the case-law has been almost wholly in the context of pre-trial discovery which is both of great importance in United States practice and most open to objection or misunderstanding in other countries . |
| 24 | While Baldwin 's succession to Bonar Law in 1923 has been almost overdiscussed , practically no attention has been given to the way in which he slipped in for the third time in 1935 . |
| 25 | The partnership has been almost entirely fruitful . |
| 26 | However , when government and international planning agencies have turned their attention to the specific problem of " development for women " , it has been almost exclusively in terms of population control . |
| 27 | In some sectors of manufacturing there has been almost a reluctance to change . |
| 28 | Johnson ( 1971 , p. 283 ) points out that , historically , the emphasis ‘ in Britain has been almost exclusively on procedures which would enable Parliament to exercise a post facto check on the manner in which monies had been spent for the purposes approved by ( but not proposed by ) Parliament ’ . |
| 29 | So far its class-based line has been almost exclusively animated by a critique of race awareness training — a practical strategy which has been thrown up in the grating between the first two tendencies . |
| 30 | The reaction within the industry has been almost totally favourable — an irony which can not have escaped Altman , who gave wry smile as he received a standing ovation at Cannes this year and the prize for Best Director . |