Example sentences of "and [is] almost " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , he 's been told what 's going on , she has n't — and is almost driven to suicide by his mysterious silence , ’ she explains . |
| 2 | Lambeth — whose leader , Joan Twelves , resigned this week — has been run notoriously badly by a Labour-controlled council and is almost a byword for filth and incompetence . |
| 3 | Davies the rugby player captained Cambridge to a 17–11 victory over Oxford in his fourth Varsity match last December and is almost certainly creating history by becoming the first to earn a rugby-soccer double Blue in the same season . |
| 4 | Paul Davies is a guru of mathematical physics and his book covers the same territory as that of Hawking ( whom he cites often ) and Gribbin and is almost as impenetrable ; however , he makes every effort to take the layman along with him , so that by judicious and generous skipping you do gain something of value . |
| 5 | The Baltic Exchange was also wrecked and is almost certain to have to be demolished . |
| 6 | Commentary on form is kept to a minimum and is almost entirely superficial . |
| 7 | It should be added that relapse is uncommon and is almost certainly less common than reinfection as a cause of reappearance of active syphilis . |
| 8 | This lacks dignity and is almost certainly due to Morrissey 's long years of neglect . |
| 9 | This represents nearly 10% of total London area traffic movements and is almost certainly an underestimate , according to Eurotunnel , because it fails to take into account the effects of increasing congestion . |
| 10 | ‘ She 's got a capacity for two thousand three hundred containers , and is almost as long as the QE2 . ’ |
| 11 | It was written in the foothills of the Wicklow mountains in Ireland , and is almost entirely acoustic-based . |
| 12 | Colquhoun suffered a back injury in training yesterday and is almost certain to miss today 's game against Brentford . |
| 13 | But Walker injured his back against Coventry on Tuesday and is almost certain to miss Saturday 's visit of Crystal Palace . |
| 14 | Now , after quite a shore period , the locomotive has been steamed for the first time and is almost in working order . |
| 15 | That the particular day of the sighting was never regarded as special , and is almost brushed aside , suggests that it was a Tuesday — and the nearest Tuesday to the reported date is the 27th . |
| 16 | The actual knee is concealed beneath the plumage and is almost contiguous with the body . |
| 17 | The corresponding separation of the objects , , is about 1.4x10 6 km and is almost independent of inclination . |
| 18 | Brown says NT exhibits a superior memory management scheme and is almost but not quite the equal of Unix at its best . |
| 19 | The evidence for such changes from past excavations is rarely satisfactory and is almost entirely based on the coins , which , in many cases , is far too slight to offer more than a hint . |
| 20 | It was specially commissioned from Tiffany and Co. of New York and is almost certainly the work of their pre-eminent designer of the period , Paulding Farnham , creator of the gold , crystal and gem-set vase , known as the Adams vase , which is still one of the Metropolitan Museum of New York 's most popular permanent exhibits . |
| 21 | It contains good amounts of vitamins A and D , but no minerals and not protein and is almost 100 per cent fat . |
| 22 | This is true portability and is almost certainly the way the industry will go in the future . |
| 23 | Christopher Huhne says that this ‘ would represent the lowest growth rate since 1981 and is almost certain to lead to a rise in unemployment ’ . |
| 24 | Conversely , support for Saddam Hussein has also become a symbol for this anti-Americanism , and is almost certainly at the root of Third World , especially Latin American , sentiment . |
| 25 | The lobby has been operating even longer than MI5 and is almost as well known but unlike the secret service , the existence of the lobby has still not been officially acknowledged . |
| 26 | The entry on ‘ Glory ’ runs to two pages , and is almost entirely about the Glory of God . |
| 27 | The MSDOS variant ( which is , numerically , at least , the most popular ) is called SMARTDRV , and is almost a necessity if you 're looking for faster hard disk performance . |
| 28 | As Lord Richard said most eloquently and correctly in another place , the only new element of the offence is that it is non-violent and is almost certainly conducted without conspiracy or the involvement or others . |
| 29 | A new Petrie and McNaught stainless steel scouring machine costing £430,000 has been installed and is almost operational with test runs being undertaken . |
| 30 | The American Medical Association stated that ‘ the loss of health care workers to hepatitis B virus overshadows the risk of AIDS and is almost entirely preventable . ’ |