Example sentences of "almost [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paolo personally made tiny cups of rich , dark , aromatic coffee ‘ a la Italia ’ , almost worth a trip in itself ! |
| 2 | If you have upgraded to MS-DOS 5 then you have a free bonus that it almost worth the cost of the upgrade on its own — QBasic . |
| 3 | After the placing , for example , they threw a huge party for the professional advisers downstairs at a local Chinese restaurant , and in early 1987 , almost as a thank-you , they took the audit manager and me out to Chicago to meet the team there . |
| 4 | Rather than remove these reminders of Glasgow 's past , the city 's planners wisely insisted that the facade survived not as a real building but almost as a museum exhibit whose Stones of Venice had appeared two years earlier . |
| 5 | Camus 's L'Etranger ( 1942 ) is also marred ( at least for Robbe-Grillet ) by the unwelcome intrusion of a ‘ metaphorical ’ vocabulary in the second part of the novel : in his landmark essay ‘ Nature , Humanisme , Tragédie ’ ( 1958 ) and in Le Miroir qui revient , Robbe-Grillet had condemned this unfortunate lapse from ‘ le degré zéro de l'écriture ’ almost as a kind of betrayal of modernism , and as deficient in phenomenological terms by establishing a complicity between man and the world . |
| 6 | For the whole of Jesus 's public ministry , Simon Peter is at his master 's side , almost as a kind of bodyguard — a function in keeping with his sobriquet of ‘ Rocky ’ or ‘ tough ’ . |
| 7 | She was aware , too , that certain couples tend to acquire single men like Preston , or women for that matter , like pets , almost as a kind of catalyst for their own uneasy , brittle relationships . |
| 8 | With Tyson gone and Tucker 's prominence chequered in the continuing row over who Lewis should fight first , King has no charismatic heavyweight to bring in big money so sees Chavez as his passport into Mexico , where the fighter is viewed almost as a God and where vast live gates and previously untapped pay-per-view television income looms large . |
| 9 | He rhapsodized about Franklin Roosevelt who , he said , was still regarded " almost as a god in place like West Virginia " , because , although rich , he had worked for the common people . |
| 10 | These elections were presented almost as a referendum on the performance of the government , and in such an atmosphere most councils must have felt confident that , for this year at least , they would avoid any adverse local electoral reaction to their fiscal policies . |
| 11 | Through his determination and vitality Browning led Elizabeth Barrett from the sick-room in which she languished almost as a prisoner and ‘ carried her into the light and sunshine ’ , inspiring her finest poems and being inspired in turn to write his greatest works . |
| 12 | But anyway , he he died almost as a prisoner at er at towards the end of er o er er of the Second World War . |
| 13 | It comes almost as a relief to find Cortot 's Debussy and Ravel less distinguished . |
| 14 | Despite the fact that she had been deeply touched by the open friendliness of the Greek couple , it came almost as a relief when finally Niall signalled that it was time to leave . |
| 15 | Also it was n't exactly pleasant right here , with a November sharpness in the air that had arrived almost as a response to the Christmas lights and store displays that were just about everywhere now . |
| 16 | It came almost as a shock to realize that her night had been peaceful — there had been no dreams , no nightmares , and the bottle by her bed remained untouched . |
| 17 | And Jenny revealed that almost as a compensation for having to choose between an important film part and the West End , a new movie is being written for her . |
| 18 | Many locals see him almost as a hero . |
| 19 | A gentle walk — which can act almost as a warm-down — will help to clear the debris from your legs and will aid recovery . |
| 20 | So she worked almost as a nurse ? |
| 21 | The need to halt fascism began to be seen almost as a life and death matter . |
| 22 | Nature seems to portend no danger and is there to be utilised by Marlowe and his lover almost as a playground . |
| 23 | The link with Dean 's Rebel was deliberate , so that it could be seen almost as a sequel . |
| 24 | However , a devaluation of the domestic currency came to be regarded almost as a sign of failure by countries facing permanent imbalance , and so was avoided for as long as possible . |
| 25 | In her column , which she used almost as a diary , she gives a charming account of the early encounters . |
| 26 | The units are small enough to fill up the space almost as a liquid would fill it . |
| 27 | Almost as a reflex , he smiled grimly to himself . |
| 28 | Equally the press , almost as a whole , had decided that it liked the girl . |
| 29 | Sometimes women are depicted almost as a caricature of a male stereotype of themselves — they are servile , weak , powerless etc . |
| 30 | And who was Kraus 's great friend in Berlin , who did he regard almost as a son ? |