Example sentences of "almost [prep] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead Beatrice retreated behind long translations of French poetry , light satire and erudite literary discussion , almost as if a part of her had died . |
| 2 | There was cramp in my neck and arms and I was so tired that it seemed almost as if a malevolent magnetism was trying to drag me to the ground . |
| 3 | It was almost as if a necessary condition of being in this paradise was the commission of some frightful sin or crime that must result in expulsion from it . |
| 4 | That is , in the subject of proposition 55 ‘ thought ’ is opposed to ‘ reality ’ almost as if a language game as a whole could be said to be justified by something outside it . |
| 5 | These districts were treated almost as if a presidential campaign was underway ; radio and television advertising time was bought ; mail and telephone blitzes were organized ; administration speakers Appeared and organizations like the National Association of Manufacturers , the US Chamber of Commerce , the American Medical Association and other organizations supportive of Reagan 's programme were mobilized . |
| 6 | Now that there is one , it 's a little late to get hysterical — better to accept the consolation that the animal has integrated itself into the landscape , almost as if a place was waiting for it . |
| 7 | It was so weird it made my hair stand on end ; it was almost as if a ghost had walked into the room . |
| 8 | Into the great Sun Chamber , the legendary crystal and silver hall , the place the exiled Wolfkings had called Medchuana , stole something so delicate and so strong , and so — so beckoning thought Fenella hazily — that it was almost as if a thin , sugar-spun veil was falling over them . |
| 9 | It had become part of each morning 's routine , almost as if a night 's absence — or a weekend 's — simply served to burnish his attractions . |
| 10 | Reader manipulation is another recurring feature that in some ways is obvious looking at how the book is written but as you 're reading the book you 're practically living in it and when you finish it 's almost as if a piece of your daily routine is missing and because it is an integral part of your life it is hard to distance yourself from it and analyse it . |
| 11 | With the James , we are told who did it ; in the Ackroyd , the matted fellow who is the chief suspect is never very securely identified as the author of the crimes — it is almost as if the inspector could have done it : so that Ackroyd 's is an authorially uncertain work in which the authorship of its crimes is uncertain too . |
| 12 | It is almost as if the catholic Irish people become a people of God in Old Testament terms , in a way similar to the Northern Calvinists , a people which have overriding power to set up their domain . |
| 13 | It was almost at the end of surgery and it was almost as if the doctor were expecting me ; and later , I could hardly wait to tell Leo what had happened . |
| 14 | AS commonly happens in concerts given by the opera world 's greatest stars , it was almost as if the two official parts of the eagerly awaited Albert Hall appearance of tenor Jose Carreras ( sponsored by Lloyds Private Banking ) had been a huge , preparatory up-beat to the encores . |
| 15 | It is almost as if the muscles controlled the fingers as marionettes are controlled by their strings . |
| 16 | ‘ It does sound as though there is , ’ answered Brown Owl , ‘ and it keeps circling , almost as if the pilot is looking for somewhere to land . ’ |
| 17 | It is almost as if the direction of change is determined in advance ( by theory ) and then events have to be fitted into that pre-ordained model . |
| 18 | But such is the style of most of the arrangements that it 's almost as if the Basie band themselves were performing , rather than a vocal trio backed by a quartet . |
| 19 | She slipped it off its hanger and held it against herself and it was almost as if the face looking back at her from the mirror across it was fourteen years old again . |
| 20 | The JD Tele is jangly and promisingly loud ; the Signature model sounds subdued to the point of inertia , almost as if the basswood is sucking up the sound — not a good start . |
| 21 | And it 's weird ; it 's almost as if the European press is mad at us for ‘ taking their David away ’ , or something . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's almost as if the recession dam has broken . |
| 23 | Certain locations can evoke in us a very strong sense of ‘ belonging ’ , of déjà vu , almost as if the spirits of our long-since-departed forebears still walked the streets . |
| 24 | In the Rohan Hours , produced for Yolande of Aragon between c.1418–25 and now in the Bibliothèque Nationale , Paris , the shroud is shown as a loose sheet , almost as if the dead man had been lifted from his bed and placed into his coffin ; no attempt has been made to mould the cloth about the body or to position the limbs . |
| 25 | It was almost as if the Russian had read Duncan 's mind . |
| 26 | It was almost as if the peasant could n't believe his luck , the cheek of him . |
| 27 | It was almost as if the Biennale 's President wanted to engineer a confrontation between the two most important trends to emerge in post-war Italy . |
| 28 | It is almost as if the man assigned the task has been chosen by lot , except that the drawing seems to have been fixed . |
| 29 | Unusually for dreaming , the plot is not in this case being driven by the visual imagery , but it is almost as if the feeling of terror is primary , and the process of dreaming is to interpret the somewhat mundane imagery to accommodate the emotion . |
| 30 | Almost as if the thing existed . ’ |