Example sentences of "almost [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems almost like the beginning of time when visitors to Welford Road first saw dear old Dusty tee up the ball , meticulously pace his couple of steps back and sideways , pause , take a deep breath , glance at the target and then , slick as clockwork , sidle up and caress the ball between the posts . |
| 2 | ‘ I felt as if I knew you , and you knew me — almost from the beginning of time . |
| 3 | At the outset he seems to have been on congenial terms with Palmerston , but their relationship went sour during Hall 's two-and-a-half years at the Office of Works : and almost from the date of Hall 's appointment , events started to go badly for Pennethorne . |
| 4 | The logic of early education is that if mentally handicapped children are given stimulation in their formative years , almost from the moment of birth , difficult behavioural problems can be avoided , and considerable academic advancements can be made . |
| 5 | We have already noted that the polytechnic directors were seeking a larger measure of academic independence almost from the moment of designation — most publicly through the CDP press statement in July 1971 expressing a wish for the polytechnics to secure charters . |
| 6 | It was an inexorable social process and almost before the rest of society or history had noticed they had laid claim to the leisure hours of the millions . |
| 7 | He regretted that many major Scottish companies shifted their headquarters to London , and took quiet pride that Scottish & Newcastle attracted high-flying executives from England — and that it was still run from an office almost in the shadow of Holyroodhouse . |
| 8 | She looked so painfully vulnerable , almost on the edge of suicide , that Ruth 's heart went out to her . |
| 9 | Remove from the heat and leave to cool until it 's almost on the point of setting . |
| 10 | Seen here almost on the point of touch down during the Norseman Celebration weekend at Howey Bay , Beech 3NM Expeditor C–GEHX is operated into Red Lake frequently by Minto Airways of Edmonton , Alberta . |
| 11 | He stood swaying , almost on the point of collapse , his arms hanging limply by his sides , the revolver dangling from his right hand . |
| 12 | He had come to his sister Elizabeth 's rescue in her time of trouble , contributing almost beyond the call of duty ; he had already done what he could to help his young nephew Robert — now what of Benjamin ? |
| 13 | More passive forms of resistance such as stealing wire and fence posts which exclude people from afforestation projects , ring-barking plantations , setting protected pastures alight , collecting firewood by night and so on , are resorted to and are almost beyond the power of enforcement agencies to stop . |
| 14 | It is important to recognise that such a circumstance may have significant psychological implications for the self-images of the individuals concerned : not only do they have less than everyone else , but they may feel and see themselves as different — less significant , less integrated , almost outside the mainstream of society . |
| 15 | In the hit movie Withnall and I , the two visit Riggindale and it drives them almost to the brink of distraction . |
| 16 | I had the advantage of seeing him first , eagerly scanning the carriages , and I observed that he was bronzed almost to the colour of teak . |
| 17 | Fill the pot almost to the top with compost . |
| 18 | Now , we are far busier people , busy almost to the point of hysteria . |
| 19 | By diminishing the outward evidence of his authority almost to the point of invisibility , he demonstrated to the people and perhaps more importantly to himself that he could perform his duties not only without resort to force but without any discernible support at all : like Hugh Clifford 's Sir Philip Hanbury-Erskine choosing to deal with rebellion not as a governor but as ‘ a man ’ , he was effacing not himself but his institutional context . |
| 20 | However , in this latter nexus , the relation between the real wage rate and the level of aggregate demand — a relation which was accorded great prominence in the General Theory — was to become obscured almost to the point of invisibility . |
| 21 | The support given to Vera Coppard and her family by the Quakers came at a point when the Jewish organisations in Berlin and Vienna were reduced almost to the point of impotence . |
| 22 | The Lapps are a curious people , pragmatic almost to the point of unfriendliness . |
| 23 | In sharp contrast to most of his contemporaries , Pétain seemed unambitious almost to the point of self-extinction ; when offered the post of Commandant to the Rifle School , he refused because it would have meant his promotion over the heads of more senior majors . |
| 24 | Like many others , I am saddened almost to the point of despair at the result of this general election , and am vividly reminded of the moving words once spoken by that truly good man , Michael Foot . |
| 25 | Resort , according to one report , has been blended into the natural landscape ‘ almost to the point of camouflage ’ . |
| 26 | It had been hot , humid almost to the point of unbearability . |
| 27 | Fortunately , she was petite and thin , almost to the point of emaciation , but all the same Sabine needed all her strength to struggle with her to the grass on the opposite side of the road . |
| 28 | The execution is elaborate almost to the point of fussiness or mannerism , in strange contrast to the bold strength of form and movement . |
| 29 | For the people of Pakistan , Maulana Abdul Sattar Edhi commands respect almost to the point of worship . |
| 30 | The breeders therefore reduced the size of their cattle , almost to the point of dwarfism , and the typical British beef animal became very short-legged and chunky in the body . |