Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [is] almost [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rule of inversion is almost as simple ( in algebraic terms ) as a translation or a similarity , but the effects are not nearly so obvious , and to understand them requires a little more thought . |
| 2 | ‘ There 's no doubt at all that the workload of the A&E department at night is almost totally generated by alcohol . |
| 3 | Different kinds of opacity within a program were discussed earlier and these would seem to have quite different correlates in the sphere of consciousness : the lower level of language is almost totally inaccessible from the higher level ( unless special structural features are added to the language to make it accessible ) , in rather the way that the machine code of our brain , if there is one , is utterly inaccessible to me , thinking in English . |
| 4 | Girls ' underachievement relates to specific areas of mathematics , especially those involving measurements and the concepts which underlie them ; this kind of underachievement is almost certainly of long standing . |
| 5 | A medical investigation or injection can work wonders , and a course of tablets is almost as good . |
| 6 | Both the Bible and history demonstrate that such a measure of blessing is almost invariably related to the means employed . |
| 7 | This type of picture is almost exclusively related to the isolation of grand negative organisms from the blood , these may be phacili or cocci , does n't really make any er , any difference . |
| 8 | For example , in primates the projection from LGd is almost exclusively to area V1 while in cats it projects to peristriate cortex as well . |
| 9 | Failure of condoms is almost invariably related to misuse . |
| 10 | The importance of support is almost certainly to some extent bound up with self-esteem and the ability of the individual to cope with difficulties as they arise ( Brown et al. , 1986a ; Pearlin et al. , 1981 ) Given that adverse life events can bring about affective disorders , this is hardly surprising as a general conclusion . |
| 11 | With two World Cups now under the IB 's belt though , it seems pretty clear from the post mortems which followed the first event in Australia and New Zealand , and the one held nine months ago in France , the U.K. and Ireland , that making money in this new era of professionalism is almost as important , if not equal in importance , to the game itself . |
| 12 | As I said , it looks to the past and , here , I Roswas bothered only that Niko Tinbergen 's place in the development of ethology is almost totally ignored . |
| 13 | For the neutralisation of a strong acid such as hydrochloric acid , HCl(aq) , and a strong alkali such as sodium hydroxide , NaOH(aq) , the standard molar enthalpy of neutralisation is almost invariably -57.1 kJ mol-1 . |
| 14 | But when Germans decide a national asset is at stake , and the old-boy network starts buzzing , a foreign buyer 's chance of victory is almost always low . |
| 15 | In Britain , our relationship with goods is almost entirely one of consumption . |
| 16 | Not just in harsh action ; increased concern about children is almost always part of a larger concern about people in general , but when horrible things are happening to people it is not unusual to focus on children and try special pleading on their behalf . |
| 17 | Curiously , weight for weight , the Young 's modulus of timbers is almost exactly the same as steel and aluminium and much better than synthetic resins . |
| 18 | The story of how after his death Bunyan and the Pilgrim 's Progress came to be assimilated by the Church of England is almost as fascinating as that of his life . |
| 19 | Despite couchettes , electrification , high-speed trains , restaurant cars , and the arrival of the car and aeroplane , there are still travellers for whom rail journeys hold a particular magic , and places in the world where a journey by rail is almost as adventurous as Gladys Aylward 's . |
| 20 | The current year , the ninety three ninety four year I have figures only up to the end of December and in comparison to the previous full twelve months the number of applications is almost as high in the first three quarters of the year but the fee income is about half what had been received for the full previous year and that is the problem that we 're facing , that the number of applications , the amount of work is , is staying the same or is indeed increasing slightly , er but the fee income , because of the nature of the the applications and the fee regime that is charged , is actually falling off quite rapidly . |
| 21 | So the number of sisters is almost certainly an underestimate . |
| 22 | Mr Yeltsin 's understanding of economics is almost as primitive . |
| 23 | Again , this is not to claim that we all aspire to it equally : it is simply to claim that , whatever our personal specific goals , some amount of money is almost invariably required for their realisation . |
| 24 | When they decide on a particular form of credit , their decision commonly has nothing to do with cost : it is simply that that form of credit is almost automatically part of the buying process that they 're used to . |
| 25 | A combination of tradition , statute and powerlessness on the part of the assembly ensures that the control of information in Britain is almost entirely in executive hands . |
| 26 | The Divine purpose of life is almost entirely forgotten and he spends each lifetime self-centredly chasing after vanishing mirages . |
| 27 | As a result the financial position of housebuilders is almost certainly worse than appears , with higher building costs and falling sales highlighting the rapidly deteriorating trend in cashflow in 1989 and 1990 . |
| 28 | Administered prices may accomplish a variety of ends , but not the balancing of supply with demand ( for social reasons , meat is cheap so there usually is no meat ) ; nor will they reflect real alternatives and scarcities ( hence the metal content of Soviet machinery is 25 per cent greater than in their American equivalents , and energy consumption per unit of GNP is almost twice that in Western Europe ) . |
| 29 | A position which provides shelter from wind is almost more important than one which receives all the sun available ; wind is excessively drying and moisture is transpired from plants much more quickly than is realized , along with the essential oils , relatively " heavy " though they are . |
| 30 | The increase in sales is almost entirely attributable to growth in volume , not to price increases , reported Glaxo 's chairman , Sir Paul Girolami . |