Example sentences of "[noun sg] was almost [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ursula 's interruption was almost a scream . |
| 2 | The decision to contest the election was taken against McGonagle 's advice , but the percentage result was almost a re-run of 1962 , with 7,825 votes for McAteer and 4,371 for Quinn , a percentage of 35.8 for Independent Labour . |
| 3 | The first attempt was almost a disaster , but he got the plane up again and came round for a second shot . |
| 4 | Her use of the plural was almost a kind of challenge . |
| 5 | And Diana was told that her request for a divorce was almost the same as an abdication . |
| 6 | By the time the decade ended self-indulgence was almost the orthodoxy ; the fulfilment of economic wants without delay was a virtue . |
| 7 | Their rivalry was almost a solid presence in the place . |
| 8 | This act was almost the downfall of Will Darrel . |
| 9 | It meant that the keynote had to be informality and so the idea of a planned suburbia was almost a contradiction in terms . |
| 10 | Accepting kingship was almost the only time that Reza Shah listened to the advice of the Muslim clergy . |
| 11 | Each landing was almost an inch deep in cartridge cases across which the thin track of dried blood still passed . |
| 12 | Barton had clinched the world title — his subsequent victory in the Billabong was almost a formality . |
| 13 | The house next to Mrs. Sutton 's was of about the same age but as the pavement was almost a foot higher than the floor of the front room , it had two steps down inside the door . |
| 14 | The wives felt most comfortable in dealing with paperwork and the number claiming no confidence was almost the same as those spending no time on paperwork . |
| 15 | Once the initial surge of grief had passed the funeral was almost a celebration . |
| 16 | Her smile was almost a grimace . |
| 17 | Culley 's smile was almost a grimace . |
| 18 | The feeling of the court was almost a tangible thing : something vile had happened and someone had to pay for it . |
| 19 | The acting was almost a by-product of that and had it not been for a fortuitous advertisement in Cardiff 's Western Mail , it might have remained just that . |
| 20 | Forty years ago the National Health Service was almost the only establishment they could turn to . |
| 21 | Another free kick was almost a repeat of the Wimbledon one , only approx 4 inches wide . |
| 22 | The frequency of gap junctions at the edge of the gastric ulcer was almost the same as that in the endoscopically normal mucosa of the gastric fundus or antrum at a distance from the ulcer . |
| 23 | As my transsexual obsession deepened I was prone to bouts of morbid depression and I spent a great deal of time thinking about suicide ; suicide was almost a twin obsession at times . |
| 24 | He recalled the ‘ ferocious debates that we had in the House back in the 1970s when , if I recall correctly , the Public Lending Right Bill was almost the only government bill that was defeated by Opposition backbenchers . |
| 25 | Weariness was almost an essential part of it . |
| 26 | Monarchy was almost the rule in Europe , which had many republicans , but few republics . |
| 27 | For many years her life was almost a caricature of the daily round of the Victorian upper-class spinster . |
| 28 | Her dress was almost the same colour , sort of café au lait , only hers had flowers on it . ’ |
| 29 | The return journey was almost a mirror image of the outward one . |
| 30 | Ella 's voice was almost a wail . |