Example sentences of "almost [adj] [noun sg] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | General knowledge quizzes of the trivial pursuit type are useful money raisers but are so popular that they are beginning to be dominated by teams that take an almost professional approach to the game . |
| 2 | This example illustrates how one branch of government , through a minor change in welfare benefit regulations , has developed a policy in almost total opposition to the policy of community care being pursued by the health and social service agencies . |
| 3 | So the almost universal reaction to the proposal was ‘ yes … but ’ . |
| 4 | But perhaps Ratty would above all treasure the slow pace of life and the almost Latin approach to the world — taking things easy is n't a common trait in Germany , but when the ‘ Manyana ’ way of life takes hold the Germans certainly do it well ! |
| 5 | They were displayed with an almost subversive indifference to the impression made upon the spectator . |
| 6 | The image omitted almost constant service to the Sanusis ; it also omitted what must have been at least intermittent contact with the Turks . |
| 7 | He had , in fact , an almost Tridentine attitude to the liturgy . |
| 8 | At the same time Gascoyne took the opportunity of surveying the whole of Cornwall ; as a result of this new field-work a map , dedicated to Charles Bodville Robartes , second Earl of Radnor and lord lieutenant of Cornwall , was published on 27 March 1699 ; it is on what was for the period the large scale of almost one inch to the mile . |
| 9 | Kostomarov expressed an almost identical antipathy to the state in his inaugural lecture of November 1859 . |
| 10 | The house presented a defensive , almost secretive face to the world , she thought , as they approached . |
| 11 | Article 42 went on to give an almost supplementary right to the state in providing for a child 's education by acknowledging the right of parents to school their children in their own home should they wish it . |
| 12 | But , today , she gave almost pious attention to every scrape of the slate pencil . |
| 13 | Anyone searching the resultant database by means of a computer terminal has almost instantaneous access to every item in the newspaper . |