Example sentences of "[verb] [be] almost [adv] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | By contrast , the issue of social mobility has been almost entirely ignored by contemporary spatial analysis , even if the issue of social mobility has been one of sociology 's concerns . |
| 3 | Sir : I was interested by your juxtaposition of ‘ Poll predicts 42-seat majority for Labour ’ with ‘ Tories hold on ’ ( 30 September ) , the latter referring , of course , to the Conservative victory in Wandsworth , the significance of which appears to have been almost totally ignored by the media . |
| 4 | Cinema admissions had indeed increased as people sought escape at the movies from the horrors of war , and the flow of French and Italian imports had been disrupted , but the screen-time made available had been almost totally absorbed by American pictures : by 1918 some 80 per cent or films shown in Britain were from the US . |
| 5 | By the beginning of the seventeenth century the secretary hand had been almost entirely superseded by the ‘ Italian ’ hand , introduced in Henry VII 's reign by his Latin secretary . |
| 6 | Thus the Hire Purchase Acts 1938 – 1965 have been almost entirely repealed by the CCA 1974 , and the rights and duties of the parties involved in a hire purchase contract are similar to those of parties to a sale of goods , in which the consumer has obtained credit , whether from the seller or a third party . |
| 7 | However , the ‘ Eroica ’ is a far more complex beast , which I would argue is almost mortally wounded by such problems — harmonic progression , tempo control , articulation and rhythmic definition etc. ( the very life blood of this particular work ) all suffer as a result . |