Example sentences of "were almost [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abundance thus rapidly acquired by those who were ignorant of its proper application hastened the progress of luxury and licentiousness , and the lower orders were almost universally corrupted by profusion and depravity scarcely to be credited by those who are strangers to our district . |
| 2 | As North pointed out , these objectives were almost universally wished for . |
| 3 | In 1302 , for example , the shire knights were almost equally divided between new members and former representatives who had been re-elected . |
| 4 | Oddly enough , these characteristics were almost wholly lacking in his cleverly designed sets , which were , none the less , imaginative and alluring , and still perfectly in keeping with this lyrical production . |
| 5 | Our ancestors could recognise good land , and early settlements were almost invariably sited on the better land . |
| 6 | It was the educated and Westernized who were most important as nationalist leaders , and these were almost invariably drawn from the urban middle class or the Western-educated children of rural landlords . |
| 7 | Its traditional ally , newly settled city-dwellers , were almost completely lacking in Belorussia , as we have seen . |
| 8 | Therefore , the observed trends were almost exclusively explained by the 400% increase during 1943–77 in cancers accurately coded as anal . |
| 9 | And while the fact that the women were almost exclusively found on conversion courses , and in computing , the difference between men and women can not be explained by IT course type alone . |
| 10 | Very easy to reproduce endotoxic shock in in experimental animals and er , it was found fairly early on that the effects , er the endotoxic effects were almost exclusively associated with the outer membrane . |
| 11 | Our survey suggested that , in the three districts studied , people on section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983 and those who were being discharged after at least six months in hospital were almost always included on care programmes , but for people being discharged from hospital after briefer admissions , for those who were being treated outside hospital and for elderly people with both functional and organic disorders , the decision to formulate a care programme was determined by particular considerations . |
| 12 | The more extreme flights of rhetoric we encountered were almost always associated with managerial detachment from the classroom . |
| 13 | The household 's final act was to arrange for the immediate disposal of the viscera which , like the body , were almost certainly placed in a lead box within a velvet-upholstered outer case . |
| 14 | Most of the speeches by ‘ Mr Pyne ’ in 1628 were almost certainly made by his uncle , Hugh Pyne . |
| 15 | They were almost certainly endowed with highly developed sensory and intuitive powers seen only in the few remaining native tribes alive today . |
| 16 | True drama unfolded in the third round of the Men 's Vauxhall Indoor Tennis Trophy for more than one reason , as reigning champions David Lloyd , Slazenger Heston were almost certainly dethroned by event newcomers Royal Berkshire , and Team Excel Bath missed out on a golden opportunity to displace last year 's Area 8 champions West Hants . |
| 17 | At Lord 's , England were almost certainly saved by the weather . |
| 18 | Finally in this context , it has been alleged that ‘ ISTC offices at Rotherham were almost certainly tapped during the … steel strike [ of 1980 ] . |
| 19 | Oswiu 's campaigns beyond the Forth were almost certainly confined to the Picts . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Much is known about Bath , where the hot springs were almost certainly venerated in the pre-Roman Iron Age . |
| 22 | He 'd gradually come to terms with the fairly obvious fact ( as most of his comrades already had ) that wartime associations were almost inevitably doomed to dissolution . |
| 23 | The avoidance of the need to teach anything of programming or electronic engineering to students whose interests , aptitudes and qualifications were almost entirely based in art and language . |
| 24 | The Ovetari frescoes , on which the young Mantegna worked from 1448 to 1455 , were almost entirely destroyed in 1944 , during a World War II air raid . |
| 25 | He also stressed the importance of a sensible diet , fresh air , plenty of exercise and good hygiene as being prerequisites of a healthy life — factors which were almost entirely ignored by or unknown to the majority of his colleagues . |
| 26 | At one function staged by the Party in Schweinfurt in October 1940 , for example , the local population turned out in force to welcome U-Boat veterans at a recruiting session for the navy , but the same people ‘ were almost entirely missing at the other functions of the NSDAP ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Verzy has an unusual viticultural history for a growth of the Montagne ; in the late eighteenth century its vineyards were almost entirely planted with white grapes . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | So , like so many in Irish rugby , he welcomes the arrival of the Irish Exiles project which aims at enrolling the large number of those with Irish qualifications who live in England , Scotland and Wales , and up to year or so ago were almost totally ignored in Ireland . |