Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] almost [adv] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And no one saw him in the street ; that little turning is almost entirely occupied by people who are out at work all day . ’ |
| 3 | Although the work of this Committee was almost entirely organized by the Communist Party , it was supported by most of the labour movement . |
| 4 | Again , no deficiency developed and this fall was almost certainly caused by the reduced intake of green vegetables , a major source of magnesium , and the increased losses from the body that can occur with alcohol and coffee consumption . |
| 5 | The hot-air hand-drier was almost certainly invented by lawyers : instead of the quick , rough efficiency of a towel , you must stand there miming the washing of hands over and over again until the soap has been extracted from every last crevice . |
| 6 | But that group was almost entirely owned by the Al-Arabi Trading Company of Baghdad . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's no doubt at all that the workload of the A&E department at night is almost totally generated by alcohol . |
| 8 | Its editorial was almost certainly inspired by Sir Walter . |
| 9 | Direct advice is almost never offered by a therapist . |
| 10 | We looked at channel activation , either by voltage or by ligands , and decided that activation is almost invariably achieved by effects on the gating mechanism . |
| 11 | THE CRYING GAME was almost universally panned by our judges . |
| 12 | Many of the specimen trees which are still in the park were almost certainly planted by Webb at the time , and the elegant arched orangery in the garden must have been built to his designs . |
| 13 | In Nephila , increased male mortality during the adult search phase is almost exactly counteracted by reduction in juvenile male growth stages . |
| 14 | A project was almost invariably done by one pupil alone . |
| 15 | The expansion of employment into new branches of manufacturing like clothing in the North East was almost entirely fuelled by mobilizing the latent reserve army of housewives . |
| 16 | Indeed , classical criminology is almost entirely constituted by the one , short book that he wrote , Dei Delitti e delle Pene in 1764 ( Beccaria , 1963 ) . |
| 17 | Fundamentally , politicians in our system are almost always guided by two considerations : first , short-term gains , since their horizons stretch only to the next election ; second , public pressure if it is strong enough to suggest that votes depend on their response . |
| 18 | The narrow coastal plain between the mountain rampart and the sea is covered by Eocene flysch , and in the largest area of flat land in Dalmatia , the plain between Zadar and Šibenik , the underlying limestone is almost entirely masked by flysch . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The house was almost certainly designed by the popular Regency architect John Papworth , who did much work in Chigwell , for several different clients . |
| 21 | The impression that post-war production was almost totally dominated by Rank and his subsidiary companies is largely accurate . |
| 22 | 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 . |