Example sentences of "almost [verb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By this time the C C P had almost completed the destruction of feudalism in the countryside in the north of China . |
| 2 | The reader might wonder why paper money has almost superseded the use of metal coins when even one coin has a greater value in metal than the largest banknote has as a piece of paper . |
| 3 | She almost dropped the line in disgust , but managed to hold it and started to swing it back and forth like a skipping rope in wider and wider slow arcs . |
| 4 | Willie almost dropped the clod of earth he was holding . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , he could almost smell the stench of fear : the house was too quiet . |
| 6 | Ironically Roche , who was so effective at creating business , appeared unable to manage it , and almost drove the firm to bankruptcy when he became its president . |
| 7 | There was silence for a moment , a silence so deep and intense that she could hear her own heart beating , almost hear the flow of blood rushing through her veins . |
| 8 | Again the action focused on a strike but this time the melodramatic story , in which all the trouble was precipitated by the boss 's nephews and a socially ambitious foreman promoted above his station , was so farcical as to almost sink the film without trace . |
| 9 | Yet the irony was that there was no support in Cabinet for the proposals and they had almost reached the point of rejection when the leak took place . |
| 10 | It is well-known that the Blitz started with the burning of the London docks , and that this created a blaze so fierce that you could almost read a newspaper at night eight miles away . |
| 11 | It had been a devastating rebuke from the quiet little fellow from California ; and as Sheila watched the hurt face of the formidable little woman from the same State ( was n't it the same Church , too ? ) , she almost felt a tinge of sympathy for Mrs Janet Roscoe . |
| 12 | Striving for influence almost submerged the dialectic of influence and agitation except for the one brief but massive burst of petitioning in 1814 on suppression of the international slave trade . |
| 13 | Firstly , donkeys began to be used in the draft capacity , which was not too serious a blow , but the advent of the train almost doomed the breed to extinction . |
| 14 | The Inquisitor 's voice , as picked up by the spy-fly , almost drowned the crackle of gunfire . |
| 15 | During Lloyd George 's premiership , the counterpoint of coalition almost drowned the theme of party , and many Unionists feared for the survival of politics as they knew it . |
| 16 | Fitzormonde was probably a brave man but Athelstan could almost taste the stench of fear which emanated from him . |
| 17 | The result is that there is no coherent and sustained statement of the classical Greek or Athenian case for democracy ; while the case against it has almost monopolized the attention of posterity . |
| 18 | In fact , sitting upright , she almost had a sense of balance . |
| 19 | To an outsider visiting Imperial College , some of the departments seem so large as almost to prevent a sense of unity . |
| 20 | On July 10 , 1990 , the government announced that as a result of its decision to withdraw subsidies " for commodities in ever-growing demand that can not be met by home production " it would ( i ) almost double the price of fuel ; ( ii ) increase the price of luxury goods , newspapers and books ; and ( iii ) double the price of mineral water . |
| 21 | TYPISTS rang up an average pay rise of 7.6 per cent last year — almost double the rate of inflation . |
| 22 | A survey has shown that pocket money has increased in the past year by almost double the rate of inflation . |
| 23 | The total investment need is there from the beginning but it is split into two phases and in our thinking it is only too easy to look only at the first phase because this almost returns the organisation to profitability , and to ignore the second phase which may be essential . |