Example sentences of "almost [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The music began casually , almost as part of the conversation , a falling line of notes and a soft wooden rhythm near the edge of the drum . |
| 2 | ‘ A woman sees the home as her base and she dresses to complement that environment almost as part of the decoration . |
| 3 | There is no build-up or anything like it , they are just mentioned , almost as part of the tree . |
| 4 | Yorkshire is a cold place and I could remember the sensation almost of shock at the start of my first winter in Darrowby . |
| 5 | And yet for a moment in the kitchen she thought she 'd caught a fleeting expression almost of smugness on his face , as though something had pleased him . |
| 6 | Being even on level terms with the opposition after three days of a Test match is a position almost of luxury for the current England team . |
| 7 | Being even on level terms with the opposition after three days of a Test match is a position almost of luxury for the current England team . |
| 8 | At a time when the Cubists were beginning to restrict severely their use of colour , when all details and incidentals had been suppressed and eliminated , when the objects in their paintings had been dislocated and fragmented to a degree where they are occasionally almost unrecognizable , there is an element of contradiction , almost of perversity in this inclusion of a trompe l'oeil detail . |
| 9 | Her tightly tailored strapless dress matched her lips exactly , as did the shoes that even Belinda recognised as highest quality Italian leather , the kind of leather with a fine grain that was almost like satin to the touch . |
| 10 | More generally , the positional field in the skin enables a wide variety of pigment patterns to be generated — it is almost like painting by numbers . |
| 11 | Clare noticed that her hair had been cropped shorter than before , so that it was almost like fur on her head . |
| 12 | And er the er we used to have a piece of wood , a small piece of wood that was shaped er like a sort of almost like torpedo at both ends . |
| 13 | They are about to kill Simon who is their only sign of hope therefore when they do accidentally kill him , the island is almost like hell with no good on it . |
| 14 | Blazer 's forelegs cut through the air almost with grace as if he were swimming . |
| 15 | Alex , who in London shared lessons in the Buckingham Palace schoolroom with the little Prince and two others , was regarded almost with awe by the other children , but to Victoria these privileges seemed merely frightening . |
| 16 | The different interpretations are due to differences in the scope of almost with respect to certain of the semantic traits of kill : notice how the paraphrases match the interpretations simply by moving almost in the sentence so as to alter its scope . |
| 17 | One has to resort to Fraser McLuskey 's memoir for the explanation that the bodies were indeed R.A.F. and American crewmen , and for a moving account of their dignified burial by the Padre himself almost within sight of the enemy . |
| 18 | William in the woods , outskirts of Edinburgh , almost within sight of the estate where his and Yvonne 's new house is , toting a paint gun on another of these stupid but grudgingly-sometimes-fun-in-a-terribly-boyish-sort-of-way paint-ball games ( his computer-company boys and girls versus the crack troops of the Caledonian news room ) . |
| 19 | One branch went down directly to the Horse Fair , the other , this one , cut through to emerge halfway along the Foregate , almost within sight of the abbey gatehouse . |
| 20 | But the thing that I reflected on was here we were , into our third bombing year , and the mighty Eighth Air Force had come to our aid over thousands of miles of land and 2,000 miles plus of sea ; and they can come down through the clouds and land almost within sight of the place they were making for , with no navigation aids at all . |
| 21 | Edwy was out on the branch almost within reach of the eggs when we were caught redhanded by the farmer on horseback … |
| 22 | ‘ We might ban John Daly , ’ says Patrick , ‘ because he 's almost within reach of Buckingham Palace ! ’ |
| 23 | And that one had to appear , like a spirit raised by necromancy , suddenly almost within grasp of his hand . |
| 24 | That night the two armies camped almost within bowshot of each other . |
| 25 | He tried whether he had a voice in the dream , and it seemed that he had , though a curiously meagre one , for she leaned still closer to hear what he wanted , inclining her earnest head to bring a small , close-set ear almost within touch of his lips . |
| 26 | Work on the new Supplement began almost from scratch in 1957 with the appointment of R.W. Burchfield as Editor . |
| 27 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that it would be a disaster to adopt a policy that changed almost from hour to hour under Labour , with no constancy or purpose of any sort ? |
| 28 | Moreover , they fluctuate in their supposed order of priority , not merely from Government to Government , nor even from year to year , but almost from day to day at the whim of public and parliamentary opinion . |
| 29 | Moreover , in dealing with a phenomenon as complex as war — which produces an infinite variety of situations and is conducted by means whose technical features alter almost from year to year — there are inherent difficulties in laying down the law in the form of treaties . |
| 30 | He ‘ s had a couple of bumps , as well , one of which has left a long and jagged crease in the body almost from headlight to tail-light ; that one was n't his fault , but he drove away from it fast to avoid the questions that would certainly follow . |