Example sentences of "almost [art] [noun] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | As we went away to the sounds of Mrs Otto 's profuse good-byes , I reflected on the nature of the relationship between her and Otto , almost the opposite to what one might have expected : the gallant captain going off to sea where his authority was absolute and his orders brooked no delay , and returning to a wife whom he clearly adored but where the roles were reversed . |
| 2 | Almost the opposite to of er what I 'm looking at er coming from er being employed by larger companies to basically working for myself . |
| 3 | These committees make the final decision on publication , although we ask for almost every paper to be revised before publication . |
| 4 | The combination of the trailing link undercarriage and low-set wing and the ground-effect air cushion it creates enables almost every landing to be turned into a ‘ CFi 's greaser ’ . |
| 5 | What is striking is that the responses bear almost no resemblance to the issues being discussed in the election campaign . |
| 6 | And the marriage that was being described was different from the one they had known , indeed bore almost no resemblance to it , and there was no-one to tell them this . |
| 7 | During this period the number of people working in the office in Carlisle virtually doubled at almost no cost to the BDA , and valuable contributions were made in all departments . |
| 8 | Agriculture coped with the demands of the growing population with almost no recourse to imports . |
| 9 | This is of almost no interest to the managers of the campaign , in the parties and the media . |
| 10 | Yet this apparently admirable material proved to be of almost no use to the party . |
| 11 | Although I know that in these matters there is almost no limit to what people will do , I am horrified that Victoria should have subjected herself to an Aids test and — as I have heard happens — the offers of emotional counselling and financial advice . |
| 12 | And there is almost no limit to the ways you can reorganize the space in some of those old Victorian and Edwardian wardrobes that can still be found . |
| 13 | As he had stressed in The Rock this was not in the sense of information , but rather in the sense of consciousness of values ; and he deplored a situation where the term society implied simply a group of ‘ well connected ’ and affluent people , which had almost no relation to that other group or society which maintained moral and intellectual standards , which for him was the church . |
| 14 | Reasoning that the very nature of Doctor Who would mean scenes at the beginning and end of serials where only the regular cast were involved , this element became almost a prerequisite to production . |
| 15 | It was almost a relief to be being attacked on this particular issue , because there were other far more personal ones to be dreaded . |
| 16 | I think it was almost a relief to him — after all this time . ’ |
| 17 | The practice was as old as the Middle Kingdom itself and formed one link in the great chain of tradition , but it was more than mere ritual , it was a living ceremony , an act of deep respect and celebration , almost a poem to the honoured dead . |
| 18 | Reading climbing magazines can be disheartening — almost a disincentive to going climbing , in fact ! |
| 19 | Minkowski worked in a vigorous school of mathematicians whose traditions stretched back almost a century to Carl Gauss . |
| 20 | The pound fell almost a pfennig to 2.7880 German marks yesterday — just one pfennig above its floor in the ERM — sparking fears of new increases in interest rates . |
| 21 | The major setback to profits came in Sears ' footwear division , about 40 per cent of total profits , where the trading surplus fell by almost a quarter to £31.6m . |
| 22 | Some were the direct result of campaigning by the Railway Development Society and the list is almost a tribute to it . |
| 23 | I talked to Whittaker almost a year to the day after Nelson Mandela had been released from his Cape prison . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're only envious , and you know you were the most concerned when he had to lose almost a year to that fever . |
| 25 | Now , almost a year to the day later the show will finally go ahead at the Frank Matcham designed theatre . |
| 26 | That it made both Britten 's reputation and , at one stroke , recreated opera in English , a lost cause since the days of Purcell , is today almost a hedge to our seeing it clearly . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ It is a charming village — almost a temple to wine . ’ |
| 29 | Thereafter he became almost a father to me . |
| 30 | The third and final category is almost a superordinate to the other two in that it asks how all the changes implied in the first two aspects are being handled . |