Example sentences of "almost [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It burst upon them almost between one bend in the river and the next . |
| 2 | If you are aiming almost for pure comedy , then your detective will need only the smallest core of toughness or commonsense . |
| 3 | Now , she wondered if this very languor , passing almost for bad health , did not protect her ? |
| 4 | It was a feeling almost of free-falling light-headedness . |
| 5 | Less tangibly , but almost of equal importance , the newer migrants may obtain advice on how to adapt to the urban way of life with its newer and more ‘ sophisticated ’ ways . |
| 6 | Almost of equal importance as regards recruitment is the post of Publicity Officer . |
| 7 | The performance itself was important , but it was almost of academic interest . |
| 8 | Shiona found herself watching his softened features with a feeling almost of secret envy . |
| 9 | For the pearl anniversary , you could create a picture in shades of cream and grey and , using the tiniest seed pearls you can find , add them as small sprays almost like sweet pea tendrils . |
| 10 | For instance , though some choral sections of Stravinsky 's first movement are almost like Medieval plainchant , the atmosphere of the music is dominated by the motor rhythm of the slightly dissonant accompaniment , with its cross-rhythms and dynamic pulsations giving a modern , machine-like character . |
| 11 | On any walk through a bog or fen one can see the delicate shoots of the horsetails , looking almost like miniature fir trees , sometimes clustering into dense masses . |
| 12 | At Calais the peg-legged porter unloading the baggage with as much agility as his able-bodied fellows became , in my over-heated imagination , a victim of Verdun , and such was the exotic evocation of ‘ foreign soil ’ , that I think I expected northern France to be totally distinct from southern England — almost like another planet . |
| 13 | The first thing someone familiar with Christine Brooke-Rose 's fiction notices about the novel is that it reads almost like conventional science fiction . |
| 14 | So is it almost like this thing which is like by by chance ? |
| 15 | ‘ I really think it 's terrible when anybody dies and people break-in — it 's almost like grave robbing . |
| 16 | Double-deckers remained open-top almost throughout that decade , the first roofed vehicles appearing in 1929 . |
| 17 | Jade axes were being made by the Maoris in New Zealand , almost within living memory . |
| 18 | A declaration of dominance , of the attitude that had accepted Darwin only so long as his ideas could be misrepresented in shuffling the animal kingdom into a league table with man several steps above its head , almost within touching distance of God . |
| 19 | Also his foes , the Beni-Gomez family , and in particular Garcia Ordonez , began a rise to power almost in equal measure to the decline of El Cid . |
| 20 | Large numbers of the Communist Party members who have risen almost in complete isolation against overwhelming odds , large numbers of them are actually killed in the fighting , many more of them are arrested and executed and in this way , the destruction of the Communist Party , particularly in the major cities , is to a very large extent completed by their own mistakes . |
| 21 | The outline of the soft parts are also clearly displayed , so that the animal has been preserved almost in frozen motion . |
| 22 | Alright , so learn those but also learn the ones that you got wrong this time , you 've got , you had one , two , three , four , five , six there , one after the after , in fact you had seven almost in that list there , and they 're the ones you 've really got to learn Lucy , right , right , so let's erm |
| 23 | On the , on the down side , some of us felt that the , the actual heading could have been , might get picked up verbatim by a news editor and used almost in that form . |
| 24 | Some are so cunning they can knock a bait off the hook with their tails and then take it almost in one movement . |
| 25 | They grew a new ‘ ear ’ on her stomach with grafts taken from her thighs ; the scab on the superficially burnt left side of her face lifted off almost in one piece , leaving behind the flawless pink skin of a teenager ; but even after a year in hospital and scores of painful grafts , the right side of her face was hideously scarred , her hair and eyebrows never grew again and a plastic plate fitted over her carbonized skull prevented her from wearing a wig . |
| 26 | ‘ Both Vladmir and I were together , almost in each other 's pockets for six weeks . |
| 27 | Since power has the capacity to sanctify crimes , almost in strict proportion to their enormity , corporate officials frequently discover themselves in the enviable situation of being able to conclude that ‘ it will ’ . |
| 28 | It 's just on a little main road , but it 's situated almost in this housing estate . |
| 29 | That the son turned out to be all but six and a half feet tall at the age of thirteen and went through school and university wielding a subversive wit which catapulted him into the West End and the beginnings of real fame in his early twenties , seems almost in bad taste , very embarrassing indeed , certainly uncalled for and probably best left undiscovered . |
| 30 | Ace , Defries and Johannsen could only watch as , almost in slow motion , Daak thrust out a fist to support his weight — and pushed down half the switches on the control panel . |