Example sentences of "almost as [adj] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost as critical as the prospect of another ‘ smoking bimbo ’ popping out of the Clinton closet is the probable wild-card candidacy of the pint-sized , populist , anti-politics Texas billionaire , H. Ross Perot , who might hurt Bush harder than he would hurt Clinton . |
| 2 | Nonetheless , the stimuli and tasks used in dichotic listening research have been almost as varied as the number of investigations undertaken with little or no attempt at proper validation . |
| 3 | But it was from America that British consumers took the idea of the founding of the Consumers ' Association and its magazine Which ? in 1957 , which was soon selling 300,000 copies — almost as many as The Times . |
| 4 | Kazakhstan had a very substantial Russian population 37.8 per cent of the total according to the 1989 census , almost as many as the Kazakhs themselves — but it was the home of the great majority of the Soviet Union 's Kazakhs and it had become accepted that the republic 's party and state leadership should be drawn from the national group after whom the republic was named . |
| 5 | There 's plenty of detail in the smaller pictures of the humans , too , and the book as a whole adds up to a great experience for a child — almost as good as a day out at the zoo ! ( 2–5 ) |
| 6 | It was almost as good as a ride at the fun fair . |
| 7 | It bubbled and spat through a layer of brown scum that stained the outside of the pan , but it smelt good , almost as good as the dinners Frankie sometimes had at school . |
| 8 | Billy Dann 's office was long and narrow , almost as narrow as the desk placed across it just in front of the window , but very high because it had been partitioned out of a much bigger room . |
| 9 | I believe tobacco-smoke is the most effectual , but to one not a smoker it would require to be a case of hiring another to the office of smoking away the midges — a work many would gladly undertake , for tobacco is looked on in the Highlands as a very great good , almost as essential as the whiskey . |
| 10 | It 's almost as grand as a chef these days is n't it . |
| 11 | Three metres long and heavy , almost as tall as a horse , it had a menacing array of sharp teeth . |
| 12 | There were trees outside , great towering hulks of oak , ash and chestnut that stood almost as tall as the house itself . |
| 13 | The shelves near the ground were usually well kept , but higher up they became more disorganised and larger in size , almost as tall as the pupils themselves . |
| 14 | She was almost as tall as the outsider . |
| 15 | A big broad-shouldered man stood there , looking gently down at her ; he seemed almost as tall as the half-mortals , his shadow streaming a long way across the beach . |
| 16 | Newsweek went further : ‘ Almost as enchanting as the mystery ( over the deaths ) was the glimpse the murders yielded into the surprising Hollywood sub-culture , in which the cast of characters played . |
| 17 | A young lizard can regrow one that is almost as long as the original . |
| 18 | His second goal was the highlight of the afternoon — the single-minded determination to score almost as impressive as the execution which saw him hold off Paul Parker and Alan McDonald and allow the ball to run past him before spinning and shooting across David Seaman , from right to left . |
| 19 | But at fifty yards the French muskets were almost as accurate as the Baker rifle . |
| 20 | It was almost as small as the circle of names and acquaintances of the average senior civil servant , and was reduced further by the fact that once they had got on to a board , many businessmen rapidly came to resent the amount of time the job demanded . |
| 21 | Ace had been amazed that Dubois had shown virtually no reaction to the TARDIS , beyond a comment that it was ‘ almost as strange as the domain of the zombi astral . ’ |
| 22 | For example , military pressure-group activity and other involvement in policy-making in liberal democracies may well seem less drastic than mounting a coup , but the implications of less overt forms of military intervention may sometimes be almost as great as a coup for the political process . |
| 23 | Since this is almost as great as the differences these authors found between the three species ( tawny owls — 51 per cent bone loss ; long-eared owls — 46 per cent ; and barn owls — 34 per cent ) , some consideration must be given to this problem . |
| 24 | The first time I bought a soft drink at a roadside stall and began cycling away , I roused a despairing cry : the bottle was worth almost as much as the fizz inside it . |
| 25 | Comfort met some rebuffs from people she had counted as her friends , who resented their allies ' safety from occupation almost as much as the damage they had inflicted on France as they pushed the Germans back after D-Day . |
| 26 | The comparison shows that the order in which the various cost details were revealed influences people 's choice almost as much as the cost details themselves . |
| 27 | I had it in an Anvil case , and a shipping crate built for it which cost almost as much as the amp did originally , and it got thrown or dropped real badly , did quite a bit of damage to it . |
| 28 | It is only after experiencing the vicissitudes of life that we realise how much the difficulties and pains enrich our lives almost as much as the joys and pleasures . |
| 29 | He disliked the estate car almost as much as the Suffolk Punch , which was why he preferred to make his way around the streets of Dynmouth on a bicycle . |
| 30 | ‘ I was told they had contributed to the terror almost as much as the terror was used against them , ’ Lord Aldington said . |