Example sentences of "almost [prep] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's almost worth advertising alcohol just to preserve the lobbying the brewers indulge in to prove that it does n't encourage young people to drink , just for the sight of their endless statistics that prove that all this money they spend on advertising is n't making anybody buy their product : run this by me again , why are you doing it ? |
| 2 | The refurbished Klondyke Building is part of the old Gas Works located on the Ormeau Road with an entrance almost opposite Donegall Pass . |
| 3 | It 's almost like community care for the prisons , you want to keep an eye in this one ? |
| 4 | The dark green leaves , which are narrow , ribbon-like , almost like Vallisneria spiralis , are up to 12ins ( 30cms ) long , with a prominent midrib and many lateral veins , and taper to a point . |
| 5 | Now , after quite a shore period , the locomotive has been steamed for the first time and is almost in working order . |
| 6 | It 's awful having a set of bells there which are almost in working order but ca n't be used . |
| 7 | The book is written almost in note form which , I think , accounts both for its brevity and clarity . |
| 8 | Almost without exception manual detergents are anionic and non-ionic blends but there are similarities in a vast range of product types . |
| 9 | All this was not dull thought ; it flashed through me vividly as living truth which I perceived directly , almost without thought process . |
| 10 | When I got clear of them I went down almost to sea level and there were two holes in the water about where my two would have gone in . |
| 11 | It is a switchback journey with many ups and downs and one particularly steep descent almost to sea level where Loch Nedd bites deeply into the coastline . |
| 12 | The danger with trying to shoehorn the IRA into this category is that the criminal justice system has had to be stretched almost to breaking point to accommodate them — Diplock courts , the abolition of the right of silence , rigged inquests , detention without trial , and so on . |
| 13 | Layering suspense element upon suspense element , the episode builds up tension almost to breaking point as audiences ponder the big question : ‘ What lives in that city ? ’ |
| 14 | So intense was the pain in his neck , flexed almost to breaking point , that he almost forgot the wound in his chest . |
| 15 | In the UK , until the so-called marginal areas were brought into an extended LFA early in 1984 , only one zone of handicap covered the whole of the LFA , ranging from relatively fertile grass pastures almost at sea level to the summits of Britain 's highest mountains . |
| 16 | The large , cheerful village of As Cain is an excellent first taste of this lushly rural hinterland and , although still almost at sea level , a possible place to stay , because it has good hotels set where village hotels ought to be , in the main square . |
| 17 | It is not simply that these areas suffer from deprivation and poverty , but there is a danger of many outer estates , in particular , becoming areas which have a quite different social and economic system , operating almost at subsistence level , depending entirely on the public sector , where the opportunities for improvement either through self-help or through outside intervention are minimal . |
| 18 | The exhaust system was a mangle of welded and leaking pipes which stuck out almost at ground level , which we replaced with the super Jake Wright Conversion . |
| 19 | However , at highly localized areas around ( but not within ) the Rollright circle , another signal could be picked up almost at ground level . |
| 20 | That Conservatives have been keen to sustain this argument should have sounded alarm bells for scholars of Conservatism , but the only alarming thing has been a tendency to accept this concept of Conservatism almost at face value . |