Example sentences of "almost [adj] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The care given to the sowing of the barley by the East Anglian husbandman was almost akin to veneration . |
| 2 | This takes place mainly up in the forest canopy , and so is almost impossible to film from the ground . |
| 3 | Pasterns are strong , springy and almost perpendicular to ground . |
| 4 | Feeling her strength almost equal to Nana 's , Martha thrashed her arm to break her grasp . |
| 5 | Nutritionally , infant formulas are almost identical to breast milk , although , as Dr Peter Sullivan points out , as far as building up your baby 's resistance to infection goes , they have absolutely no effect . |
| 6 | It is almost invidious to single out specific examples of success . |
| 7 | The EWGM probe was almost insensitive to gamma radiation ( only about 0.3% of the radiation detected by the scintillation probe was detected by the EWGM probe ) , whereas the scintillation probe also picked up beta radiation ( about 20% of the counts detected by the EWGM probe ) . |
| 8 | The Abbot of Battle , John Hammond , took an annual pension of £100 , worth possibly £10,000 in our currency , almost tax-free to boot , and settled in the town where he died in the later 1540s . |