Example sentences of "almost [prep] [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From here she 'd get to know those whom Christine had known , perhaps find out where she 'd lived ; enter her skin , almost as if Christine were to walk again while Lucy became the ghost . |
| 2 | It was uncanny , really , almost as if Lori knew she was being followed . |
| 3 | It 's almost as if Hook Norton Brewery were locked away in a time warp ; even in the heart of the brewery , the steam engine which runs it is still there . |
| 4 | It 's almost as if Britain , without playing down its importance , has lost some of its challenge , now Carter are playing to predominantly converted crowds . |
| 5 | It is almost as if Lijn feels the need to replace a vacuum of powerful female imagery with real figures . |
| 6 | The causal connections between early life chances and present opportunities were implicit rather than explicit almost as if people did not want to articulate these except in the ways that I report . |
| 7 | There is a standards battle currently being fought and for the moment it looks almost as if consumers may soon be confronted with a variety of competing , incompatible television systems in different regions of the world . |
| 8 | It was almost as if God had failed . |
| 9 | Judged by existing Christian literature , it is almost as if trade unions hardly exist . |
| 10 | The arrival of ‘ Alcibiades ’ with his partying revellers is a bit of an anticlimax — a touch jaded rhythmically , almost as if Boughton and his crew were rather wishing that Bernstein 's Greeks had been philosophers first and swingers second . |
| 11 | It is almost as if Thomas was trying to create , in fiction , an alternative pattern his life might have followed . |
| 12 | It 's almost as if Rene Kerfante were to say that he ought to tell The Correspondent not to use his typefaces , but they need to get something , I do n't know , more coherent though . |