Example sentences of "[verb] almost [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to take it as the question of international policy is to preclude almost by definition the construction of more cooperative approaches . |
| 2 | Soon they were driving almost through countryside , there were no street lamps any more ; and Boy suddenly found himself saying , stop the car . |
| 3 | The importance attached to maintaining the ‘ prestige ’ of the emirs soon translated in practice into the importance of maintaining the autonomy of the Residents , and subsequent governors of Nigeria found almost without exception that Lugard had created an administrative monster which it was beyond their power to control . |
| 4 | The fatalities were three of their number : Terry Robbins had been virtually obliterated in the blast , Diana Oughton was mangled almost beyond recognition and Ted Gold , on the first floor , was killed by falling beams . |
| 5 | Colour is intimately linked with light , so it is hardly surprising that changing light alters colours , enhancing the brilliance of some while causing other to fade almost into invisibility . |
| 6 | Tried almost beyond endurance , Dick keeps silence . |
| 7 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it would be a disaster to adopt a policy that changed almost from hour to hour under Labour , with no constancy or purpose of any sort ? |
| 8 | How can I forget Johnny McCarthy whose humour , whose mimicry , whose abundant love of life on so many , on so many times seemed to diminish almost to extinction , those grinding moments of hopelessness . |
| 9 | Crops are harvested almost without sweat , boats set off on journeys with full sails , celebrations are carried off with style and decorum . |
| 10 | It is not simply that these areas suffer from deprivation and poverty , but there is a danger of many outer estates , in particular , becoming areas which have a quite different social and economic system , operating almost at subsistence level , depending entirely on the public sector , where the opportunities for improvement either through self-help or through outside intervention are minimal . |
| 11 | With the help of audio-visual aids , computer-assisted instruction , and other teaching devices , a museum can bring a subject alive in ways that compare favourably with a single television programme , or a book selected almost by chance from the local shop . |
| 12 | There was a part of his mind filled almost to sickness with self-mockery , a bitter mockery grown out of the fear that was back with him now , mockery for the excellence of his seamanship . |
| 13 | The book is written almost in note form which , I think , accounts both for its brevity and clarity . |
| 14 | Death often happens almost by default . |
| 15 | In between carousing down the powdery slopes , Branson and his colleagues could take stock of an empire that had grown almost beyond recognition in the last six years . |
| 16 | They 're funny things : I 've heard of rabbits living almost on top of them and coming to no harm . |
| 17 | They recalled almost in totality everything I had written , the people I had interviewed , the story of the vast corruption in New York 's building trades and how it affected the construction of their monumental World Financial Centre on the Hudson . |
| 18 | That night the two armies camped almost within bowshot of each other . |
| 19 | There was an uprising over the mine closures but closing a shipyard passes almost without comment . |
| 20 | The discovery was made almost by accident . |
| 21 | Her dry observations on race , class and gender in the Caribbean are made almost in passing , but her knowing smile gives them a ring of authority . |
| 22 | The ultimate ingenious compromise has , however , been widely accepted almost without comment . |
| 23 | There was something in his face and eyes she did not like — a softness that seemed almost like sympathy . |
| 24 | A reply came almost by return of post . |
| 25 | Happily , the Department of the Environment was so appalled at being cast as the number one villain that the certificates came almost by return of post and the Coal Board now felt isolated and exposed . |
| 26 | They came almost in ignorance of an often sublime short game — the big attraction was to see him smash a golf ball further than anyone else in the world and their adulation proved his undoing . |
| 27 | Beneath the layer of string and paper was a foetid mass of material : old curtains and cushions , felted blankets , a porridge of gloves and belts , garments decayed almost beyond identification . |
| 28 | In the disposable , flippant world of pop , people do not tend to write earnestly about the real world and the few that do are seen almost as gurus or counsellors . |
| 29 | Formerly plentiful on antarctic fringe and peripheral southern islands , they were hunted almost to extinction by commercial sealers during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 30 | They danced almost till dawn , till there was no more champagne and almost all of the other guests had long gone home . |