Example sentences of "almost a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er , In spite of the fact that the Germanies were at one time united , it , it 's almost a culture shock I suppose . |
| 2 | Her parting gesture , almost a battle cry . |
| 3 | As he walked home , he reflected that it was almost a love passage . |
| 4 | He more than once declared that , compared with schoolmastering , work at the bank was almost a rest cure . |
| 5 | A minor official — quite remarkably almost a caricature Frenchman — condescended to see us . |
| 6 | And you come over this hill and suddenly there 's nothing on the other side except a huge hole in the ground , and the road goes along almost a cliff edge the side of this erm hole which is this worked out iron ore quarry . |
| 7 | In Parliament there was non-cooperation that became almost a guerrilla war between the parties . |
| 8 | It was almost a gang thing . |
| 9 | It was almost a quantum leap in some ways . |
| 10 | Well looking back on it now it seems almost a life time away but it 's amazing just how well you can remember those far off days . |
| 11 | The film 's musical score and song and dance numbers are surprisingly its weakest ingredient , though the shooting and editing of Earth Girls Are Easy is often highly original-especially the black and white dream sequence that 's a model of its kind and almost a music video in itself . |
| 12 | She had a nice mouth , almost a kind mouth . |
| 13 | Staff got frazzled , speakers got angry and there was almost a fist fight between some of my colleagues and the lighting technicians . |
| 14 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 15 | Half hidden by brambles and long grass , the little Gothic lodge house , almost a fairy dwelling , looked at us sadly with a black eye or poked-out ecclesiastical window . |
| 16 | COMPLACENCY is almost a sacking offence at Hunslet Transportation Projects , the Birmingham-based firm which in June 1990 startled railway experts by winning a contract to supply 37 electric passenger trains to Regional Railways . |
| 17 | COMPLACENCY is almost a sacking offence at Hunslet Transportation Projects , the Birmingham-based firm which in June 1990 startled railway experts by winning a contract to supply 37 electric passenger trains to Regional Railways . |
| 18 | Compared to some , she was almost a china doll . |
| 19 | The return journey was almost a mirror image of the outward one . |
| 20 | The results for this question were almost a mirror image of those for the preceding question , with the negative response to the proposition from the majority of sole practitioners easily cancelling out the positive answer given by the bulk of the remaining respondents . |
| 21 | This was the reason I asked you to return to the house of your childhood : because the places we have loved — or hated — as children remain in the mind as almost a structuring force . |
| 22 | Regardless of which statistical model was applied , however , the main conclusion was the same — namely , almost a 50% reduction in sperm concentration from 1940 to 1990 . |
| 23 | Daniel had meanwhile built up the works , from a large smelter in three storeys to coal-sheds , workshops , a stamp mill , and housing in Brigham , almost a mile east of Keswick on the river Greta . |
| 24 | Almost a brunch coat but that 's too crude a description . |
| 25 | The lower 2 inches or so can be sharpened , to almost a knife edge . |
| 26 | ‘ It was almost a Mafia situation , ’ says our heroine . |
| 27 | As my transsexual obsession deepened I was prone to bouts of morbid depression and I spent a great deal of time thinking about suicide ; suicide was almost a twin obsession at times . |
| 28 | It was almost a carbon copy of Kiwomya 's matchwinner in last week 's Coca-Cola Cup encounter with Aston Villa — the bookies ' favourites to overhaul Norwich for the Championship . |
| 29 | On the other hand anyone who could establish a real ascendancy over a monarch might himself become almost a surrogate ruler : the extraordinary position achieved by Prince G. A. Potemkin in Russia through his personal hold on Catherine II for some years before his death in 1791 is an outstanding case in point . |
| 30 | It is almost a throwback debate to 1981 , with the Government saying that things are bad but — a Micawberism — ’ Wait and see , something better will turn up , it might get a bit better . ’ |