Example sentences of "[vb -s] almost [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The text covers almost every corner of the world : plants from the Alps , the Pyrenees , Bohemia , the Levant , Egypt , Siberia , North and South America , the East and West Indies , China and Japan are included . |
| 2 | It contains almost every type of habitat a discerning bird could wish for : a scrub full of buck thorn , sand dunes held secure with mar ram grass , salt marsh rich with colonising plants , lush woodland and pasture near old farm buildings , shingle spits and winding muddy creeks . |
| 3 | Ground-level ozone , which has almost no contact with the ‘ ozone layer ; of the stratosphere , forms in ’ peaks ’ or ‘ episodes ’ , strongly influenced by sunshine . |
| 4 | The crop is a strain of cannabis or hemp that has almost no effect as a drug , and is completely legal . |
| 5 | The man who can not make eight or ten bales at least has almost no object in life and nothing to live on . ’ |
| 6 | Incisive comment stiffens almost every page . |
| 7 | Thus Betelgeux in Orion , one of the brightest stars in the sky , is clearly orange-red , but Mu Cephei , in the far north , shows almost no colour at all until you look at it with binoculars , when it gives the impression of a glowing coal , and earns its nickname of ‘ the Garnet Star ’ . |
| 8 | There are numerous benefits , including free entry to the Society 's own gardens , discount on tickets for flower shows almost every month — and you 'll be able to obtain free gardening advice from RHS experts . |
| 9 | Thai society condemns almost no behaviour , except criticism of the royal family . |
| 10 | Electricity , like gas , is readily available , and reaches almost every home . |
| 11 | Kavalek has the latest computer software to analyse Karpov 's play and has assembled a database of 260,000 Grandmaster games which includes almost every move Karpov has played . |
| 12 | That sounds almost a lifetime to me at the moment ! ’ she wailed , waving her hands distractedly in the air . |
| 13 | Kennel handler , Sue Hoffman , attends almost every Championship Show in South Africa . |
| 14 | I 'm quite sure that the way forward for teachers and parents is within some kind of co-operative framework , and the only way that can work effectively is for each to be aware of other 's needs and difficulties , and the kind of barriers that have existed in the past for parents to get into schools I think are being lowered by the schools , but it takes almost a generation , I think , for parents to stop being frightened about what school is doing and the kind of parents who 've had bad experiences themselves in schools , I think , have enormous difficulties in approaching teachers and I 'm sure the answer is in terms of co-operative activity — children and schools , schools and parents , and all of them together with myriad of outside agencies that are available for children with severe problems . |
| 15 | The whole meal takes almost an hour and makes me ravenous . |
| 16 | Things are hardly helped by new singer Paul Roberts , who delivers almost every track in overblown , melodramatic tones that are downright hilarious . |
| 17 | An arrangement between either major party and the Ulster Unionists , involving scrapping the Anglo-Irish agreement , finds almost no favour . |
| 18 | Well looking back on it now it seems almost a life time away but it 's amazing just how well you can remember those far off days . |
| 19 | It seems almost a pity to subject these lively fancies to the stern test of verisimilitude , but I feel constrained to point out three facts . |
| 20 | The problem is that there 's little to offer in between ; high street quality seems almost a contradiction in terms . |
| 21 | An Anglican feels almost an intruder . ’ |
| 22 | Alas , Mr Shevardnadze speaks almost no English or French and may not want the job . |
| 23 | Johnson displays almost no preoccupation with the place , which he summarises as ‘ much less than that of St George … |
| 24 | This process , begun in 1946 with the acclaim for Great Expectations , reached its peak with the 1974 publication of Masterworks of the British Cinema , a book that included the script of Brief Encounter but zealously forbade its readers to praise the man who wrote it : ‘ Brief Encounter , indeed , constitutes almost a declaration of independence on Lean 's part from his fruitful but by 1945 no doubt increasingly constricting association with Coward 's writing . ’ |
| 25 | The retired seaman Peyrol offers almost a catalogue of such familiar elements as he recalls : |
| 26 | Raster scanning/vectorization is also fast , and involves almost no user intervention . |
| 27 | Unfortunately , this means almost no mention in the book columns of the serious press . |
| 28 | At work there is a great deal of empiricism — sometimes it becomes almost a mystique , as in the steel-making process where the head melter was once supposed to be able to tell whether the melt was ‘ done ’ by spitting into it . |
| 29 | Cézanne 's method of building up form by a series of parallel hatchings or small overlapping brush-strokes is used by Picasso in a severe and logical way ; indeed , in the gouaches of early 1909 this method of work becomes almost a refinement of the earlier , cruder striations . |
| 30 | For quick revision , the skeleton of the subject must be visible at a glance , and it is worth while making some effort to produce this effect , if only for ease of revision ; indeed , revision becomes almost a pleasure if the notes are eminently readable and carry their message with punch . |