Example sentences of "almost [adj] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How could you doubt that ? ’ he insisted , his eyes almost murderous at the suggestion . |
| 2 | ‘ You have finished , Master Corbett ? ’ de Craon called out sweetly , as if he was almost sorry at the reception the English clerk had received . |
| 3 | In one episode , the usual cliffhanger excitement was almost literal at the end as Alexis and Dex went hurtling over the balcony . |
| 4 | He later abandoned this practice , except for the tedium of commissioned replicas when he was court painter , even though it was almost universal at the time . |
| 5 | There were no representatives from Contact on any of these committees , although the group constituted almost one-third of the overall number of users at one of the centres and almost one-half at the other two . |
| 6 | There is a limit to the quantity of any one particular food you can eat , and continue to eat without other foods , before beginning to feel bored with it and then almost sick at the thought of it . |
| 7 | In the case of Kenya , Kenyatta 's age of almost seventy at the time of independence in 1964 meant that the succession issue was alive from the start . |
| 8 | Almost non-existent at the beginning of the 1980s , rail carryings of this commodity had assumed significant proportions by the end of the decade , showing Railfreight both eager and able to adapt to new opportunities . |
| 9 | Nell felt almost giddy at the way her outlook on the future had so dramatically altered . |
| 10 | They had heard it some time before they reached it , the rumble of thunder growing louder as they approached , to become almost deafening at the point where a cloud of spray hovered overhead , the droplets becoming tiny rainbows as they caught the sun . |
| 11 | When the paintings were delivered the older couple were almost apoplectic at the sight of them and refused even to store them in their house . |
| 12 | Local political diversity was almost absent at a time when central control was at its slackest . |
| 13 | By mid-July the Nikkei average was trading at only around 23,000 , compared with a peak of almost 40,000 at the end of 1988 . |
| 14 | After the desolation of the Batn el-Hagar and the physical exhaustion of the lorry ride from Wadi Halfa , I felt almost tearful at the sight of it . |