Sentence examples for he virtually was from inspiring English sources

He is not as powerful as he was in the 1990s, when he virtually was the market, but he remains the most successful art futures' dealer in London: buying young artists cheap, selling them dear, and able to ruin their careers by dumping them if their prices don't meet his expectations.

Within the last 10 or 15 years, he said, "those communities have virtually been erased".

His pain increased, and by the time he died, he was virtually bedridden.

He said he was virtually powerless to alter the prices of his works.

Then he told Shea he was virtually certain what had caused Mimi's lifelong respiratory problems.

'He told me he was virtually kidnapped!' one-time manager Ron Atkinson recalled - to Anderlecht.

One of the remarkable things about Guide Li was that he virtually always said what was on his mind.

In the commercial theatre of the 20th-century United States he virtually had to be an impresario.

Crime, he said, was virtually unknown there.

One session, he said, was "virtually an interrogation".

His decision to make a solo record, he says, was virtually a fluke.