Example sentences of "was almost [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The affliction was a subject for after-dinner conversation whenever he felt like talking about it , which was almost every time he ever had a conversation . |
| 2 | There was almost no escape from television . |
| 3 | There was almost no money on course for the horse and the only serious cash , about £1,000 in a series of small bets , was placed in the Bradford area . |
| 4 | I arranged for Jaggers to be his lawyer , but Jaggers warned me there was almost no hope of saving his life . |
| 5 | In fact , by this stage , the state Department knew that there was almost no country prepared to accept the Shah . |
| 6 | At the beginning of the nineteenth century , there was almost no standardization in science or in technology . |
| 7 | There was almost no time of day when we could be together alone . |
| 8 | There was almost no traffic on the roads , though it was only ten-thirty . |
| 9 | All such activities paid dividends in the sense that , until the second half of the seventies , there was almost no questioning of the Shah 's priorities or stability in the American press or congress . |
| 10 | The late Tim Brookshaw , not famous for faint-heartedness , danced an eloquent jig on top of the last fence at Leicester to show how hard it was , and one day there was almost a jockeys ' strike at Plumpton . |
| 11 | Barton had clinched the world title — his subsequent victory in the Billabong was almost a formality . |
| 12 | It was almost a door and looked out on to a long paved garden bordered with box hedges and there was an inviting looking higher hedge at the bottom with an arch of greenery over a gap in the middle . |
| 13 | It was almost a betrayal . |
| 14 | This was almost a conversation , and not a fuck or a shit in it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He was standing on the exposed rocks at the highest point of the headland ; the ground fell away steeply from here , mostly bare rock and scrub , with just a narrow shelf of land that was almost a beach down at the water 's edge . |
| 17 | If he had had to correlate the conduct of the second Punic War with the decentralization of the Roman state — with its municipia and coloniae — and with the ever-changing pattern of the Italian alliances , he would soon have discovered that his idea of a mixed constitution in Rome was almost a fiction . |
| 18 | As he walked home , he reflected that it was almost a love passage . |
| 19 | They could sense a difference in the days now , sometimes there was almost a rime of frost on the shady side of the woods , and the old pony 's cost was thickening ; in the mornings they went off to school . |
| 20 | Compared to some , she was almost a china doll . |
| 21 | When one recalls the Emperor 's addiction to cigarettes — he was almost a chain-smoker — his rooms must have frequently appeared as places of torment to those who had business to transact there . |
| 22 | It was almost a purr as Lotta 's eyes blazed a totally false smile at her . |
| 23 | ‘ It was almost a Mafia situation , ’ says our heroine . |
| 24 | It was almost a question , but not quite . |
| 25 | With his shorts flapping around his knees and his wispy , thinning hair he was almost a caricature of a footballer , but Wally could mesmerise his opposing full-back or swerve past him at a deceptive pace , before putting across an accurate , teasing centre . |
| 26 | For many years her life was almost a caricature of the daily round of the Victorian upper-class spinster . |
| 27 | Once the initial surge of grief had passed the funeral was almost a celebration . |
| 28 | But the relationship was extremely good , I think that you might say that for many years in my service , it was almost a case of the law abiding citizens in Ipswich coping with the wrongdoers . |
| 29 | As a person , David was almost a man born out of his period . |
| 30 | East of this , £1 assessments topped the 45 per cent mark only in Samford hundred , which was practically coterminous with the ‘ rich loam ’ area , identified by Arthur Young , and in the north-eastern corner of the county , which he was ‘ much inclined to class ’ with it , and was almost a part of Norfolk . |