Example sentences of "[been] almost [adv] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not faced squarely even in the heyday of regional policy , when measures placed much more emphasis on the mobility of industrial investment than on the movement of workers , and it has been almost completely ignored since the dismantling of regional planning in 1979 . |
| 2 | It is possible that the beach on the exposed portions of the coast was originally much wider and that much of it has been destroyed by marine erosion at the present sea level , whereas it has been almost completely preserved in the narrow straits . |
| 3 | The disused railway bed has been almost completely overgrown following the closure of the railway . |
| 4 | The disused railway bed has been almost completely overgrown following the closure of the railway . |
| 5 | This is not to deny that there are those amongst the Sandinistas who are urging a more orthodox Marxist-Leninist approach to the problems of Nicaraguan development and the need to counter threats from Washington , but to date the Nicaraguan Communist party ( Partido Socialista Nicaragüense ) has been almost completely excluded from the process of implementing the revolution . |
| 6 | People first settled there perhaps 130000 or 120000 years ago and the site seems to have been almost continuously occupied for the next 40000 to 8000 years . |
| 7 | Thus the Hire Purchase Acts 1938 – 1965 have been almost entirely repealed by the CCA 1974 , and the rights and duties of the parties involved in a hire purchase contract are similar to those of parties to a sale of goods , in which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 . |
| 8 | I also could point out , again , the shameful irony that the most dramatic advances for women have been almost entirely confined to the industrial world ; that the worst declines have been in poor countries among those very women whose work creates the wealth that buys us our freedom . |
| 9 | By the beginning of the seventeenth century the secretary hand had been almost entirely superseded by the ‘ Italian ’ hand , introduced in Henry VII 's reign by his Latin secretary . |
| 10 | Considering that Russia had not engaged in naval warfare for some 50 years and that its industrial economy had been almost totally destroyed during the war , it came as a considerable shock to discover that it was capable of building such a strikingly graceful , and powerful , class of warship . |
| 11 | 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 . |