Example sentences of "[be] almost [adv] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These changes induced by platelet activating factor can be almost completely reversed by the pretreatment with highly specific and potent platelet activating factor receptor blocker , TCV-309 . |
| 2 | The first fifty or so milliseconds of these waves are the most consistent for any particular stimulus and it is thought that they are almost entirely generated by the incoming stimulus , irrespective of any mental activity on the part of the subject . |
| 3 | These dominantly clastic sediments , with their glacial tillites , are almost everywhere followed by the quartzites , glauconitic sandstones and shallow water limestones of the early Cambrian . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Thus the Hire Purchase Acts 1938 – 1965 have been almost entirely repealed by the CCA 1974 , and the rights and duties of the parties involved in a hire purchase contract are similar to those of parties to a sale of goods , in which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 . |
| 6 | By the beginning of the seventeenth century the secretary hand had been almost entirely superseded by the ‘ Italian ’ hand , introduced in Henry VII 's reign by his Latin secretary . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The old Minister of Health , 1949–64 , was responsible to Parliament directly for the hospital services , being almost wholly provided by the taxpayer , and indirectly for the health and welfare services provided partly out of the rates and partly out of taxes by local authorities . |
| 9 | Therefore , the observed trends were almost exclusively explained by the 400% increase during 1943–77 in cancers accurately coded as anal . |
| 10 | At Lord 's , England were almost certainly saved by the weather . |
| 11 | During the campaign , however , broader EC issues were almost entirely overshadowed by the controversial issue of abortion , and whether the Irish Constitution 's restrictive abortion provisions could be affected by EC rights to freedom of movement and information . |
| 12 | Their grievances were almost totally ignored by the government and thus since the government suppressed almost any step taken collectively by the workers to improve their economic position , the political aims of the workers became dominant over the economic goals . |
| 13 | It is almost completely obscured by the tree which surrounds it and hides the light under its foliage . |
| 14 | He is an " Oxbridge don " who gives a " somewhat fastidious impression " , a point which is almost immediately confirmed by the dramatic action when the stage directions tell us " ANDERSON dabs at his mouth with his napkin and puts it down " ( p. 43 ) . |
| 15 | The cost of the call reduces the profit position when S < E and limits the maximum profit to E — C. On the other hand the potential unlimited loss on the short share when S> E is almost exactly offset by the potentially unlimited profit of the purchased call . |
| 16 | Direct advice is almost never offered by a therapist . |
| 17 | The fact that community nurses all over the country are tearing around between 7.30 and 9.30 in the morning giving one dose of insulin after another is almost always dictated by the needs of each client to receive insulin at that time of day . |
| 18 | The front is almost totally covered by a three-ply white/black/white scratchplate , which carries the pickups , the five-way selector plus the tone and volume pots . |
| 19 | Indeed , classical criminology is almost entirely constituted by the one , short book that he wrote , Dei Delitti e delle Pene in 1764 ( Beccaria , 1963 ) . |
| 20 | The Club is almost entirely financed by the proceeds it gets from turning a large part of the Club into a giant car park throughout The Championships . |
| 21 | Under each of the three windows was a working table with four chairs ; one table was almost completely covered by a model of the new Laboratory . |
| 22 | Vadim Perfilyev , the Foreign Ministry spokesman , said yesterday that the contested region of Nagorny Karabakh , at the heart of the Azeri-Armenian conflict , was almost completely paralysed by the blockade . |
| 23 | Marx and Engels and , for that matter , Morgan and their other sources , were in no way peculiar in this belief ; they were representatives of a current of opinion that was almost universally accepted by the end of the nineteenth-century . |
| 24 | That was almost invariably provoked by the actions of the dynasts themselves . |
| 25 | Another , Tosti , although absent from contemporary documentary sources , appears on a Swedish rune stone as having secured tribute for his followers , while Florence of Worcester , writing c.1100 , says that a force which appeared in 1009 was led by Thorkell , and was almost immediately joined by a second group under Hemming and Eglaf . |
| 26 | The application of the Woolwich principle in the present case might well create no administrative difficulties inasmuch the payment was made under protest and was almost immediately followed by an application for judicial review . |
| 27 | The scene for the election to the Constitutional Convention was formally set by the British Government when it published its White Paper " The Northern Ireland Constitution " ( see above page 8 ) which was almost immediately followed by the passing of the Northern Ireland Act 1974 on 17 July . |
| 28 | The visiting officer found him living in one room which was almost entirely filled by a double bed . |
| 29 | Although the work of this Committee was almost entirely organized by the Communist Party , it was supported by most of the labour movement . |
| 30 | But that group was almost entirely owned by the Al-Arabi Trading Company of Baghdad . |