Example sentences of "almost a [noun sg] of [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his shorts flapping around his knees and his wispy , thinning hair he was almost a caricature of a footballer , but Wally could mesmerise his opposing full-back or swerve past him at a deceptive pace , before putting across an accurate , teasing centre . |
| 2 | The sound of the water had become muted ; like background music , it receded from consciousness , becoming almost a part of the stillness and the silence . |
| 3 | But the relationship was extremely good , I think that you might say that for many years in my service , it was almost a case of the law abiding citizens in Ipswich coping with the wrongdoers . |
| 4 | Bramble was forty-five and had not been thus addressed for almost a quarter of a century . |
| 5 | Wilson , speaking at an Annual Conference almost a quarter of a century later summarised the experience of 1887–1894. " 1887 was a fairly good year . |
| 6 | Now , almost a quarter of a century later , she was suffering more than ever , because she could not forget , and because she needed to feel close to the ones she still loved . |
| 7 | FOR almost a quarter of a century we have been keeping records of farm fatalities . |
| 8 | When France and Spain made peace in 1659 after a struggle which had lasted for almost a quarter of a century it was agreed that their representatives , Cardinal Mazarin and Don Luis de Haro , should meet on a small island in the River Bidassoa , which separated their territories in the Pyrenees . |
| 9 | Ken appreciated it and for almost a quarter of a century afterwards they would be close friends . |
| 10 | A few days later , immediately alongside the busy M40 , a pause at traffic-lights enabled me to glance at a dense assembly of birds , as closely-packed as starlings , extending for almost a quarter of a mile along the edge of the arable field , and I was able to identify them as a mixture of Lapwing and ‘ goldies , ’ all immobile , and many of the latter with their heads tucked in as if fast asleep . |
| 11 | Isfield itself seems to have shifted from its old site , up near the parish church , to a new site almost a quarter of a mile south-eastwards ; the moated manor near the church was abandoned and replaced by a new separate dwelling . |
| 12 | But almost a quarter of the childhood memories do express distinct feelings . |
| 13 | The Fr300,000,000 grant had covered almost a quarter of the venture 's costs . |
| 14 | Also standing is Green Mike Woodin who grabbed almost a quarter of the vote in last year 's council elections . |
| 15 | Almost a quarter of the world 's population — 1.2 billion people — were reckoned to be too poor to meet their most basic needs for food , clothing and shelter . |
| 16 | With barely 800 inhabitants , Little Walsingham comprised almost a quarter of the population and a clear two-fifths of the value of North Greenhoe hundred , Norfolk ( Table 2.9 ) : four men in the £100 class shared 30 per cent of the town 's wealth , and ten at £40 — £99 owned a further 35 per cent . |
| 17 | For labouring people and out-servants the average income per head is given as £4 10s ( £4.50 ) against an expenditure of £4. 12s ( £4.60 ) , while for cottagers and paupers , whom he considered to make up almost a quarter of the population , the respective figures are £2 and £2 5s ( £2.25 ) . |
| 18 | In almost a quarter of an hour , an incredibly short time for an encounter battle , it was all over , and , to round off a crushing defeat Cope 's baggage train , including his money chest containing £4000 , was captured without a fight . |
| 19 | The professor seemed not to realise that she was a servant , perhaps because she was so much with the Carsons as to seem almost a member of the family . |
| 20 | It was a gloomy place , almost a replica of the film set for Brief Encounter . |
| 21 | Hand-cutting of hay by scythe is almost a thing of the past , as people either have their own tractor-driven machines or can hire someone to do the job . |
| 22 | Private rooms became almost a thing of the past , for closets went out of fashion ; bedrooms , which had formerly existed on all floors , went upstairs , but , although their dressing-rooms were often furnished as boudoirs , these were out-of-bounds from after breakfast , except in times of illness . |
| 23 | On the positive side , steam traction became almost a thing of the past ; by the end of 1966 , 96 per cent of total coaching train miles were operated by diesel or electric trains . |
| 24 | but , I ca n't see him authorising bank holiday workings and so bank holiday exhibitions are almost a thing of the past . |
| 25 | It is really in my mind almost a repeat of the situation we found ourselves in , in the Sudbury Western bypass some year or two ago , which strayed into Essex onto which the Essex County Council raised objection , er , one can not build a road in an adjoining County without the consent in law of the County Highway Authority on whose ground you trespass , it 's almost as simple as that and in this case with Norfolk standing presumably indicating their intention to oppose the construction for a day , we have something of a static bar situation unless we can reach agreement . |
| 26 | S I mean t y you see , what you could work more towards is almost a sort of an agreement wi with individuals is n't it ? |
| 27 | Golding 's technique in such passages is almost a reversal of the procedure which marks such a great step in the development of Lok 's reasoning capacity . |
| 28 | This is almost an inversion of the procedure examined below in the case of similes which introduce underlexicalised terms used with special meanings in the fiction . |