Example sentences of "almost a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His voice had become almost a screech of anger and frustration . |
| 2 | Reasoning that the very nature of Doctor Who would mean scenes at the beginning and end of serials where only the regular cast were involved , this element became almost a prerequisite to production . |
| 3 | To defuse what is almost a state of lawlessness , the Interior Ministry has ordered the abolition of the workers ' militia in factories . |
| 4 | It was almost a rerun of experience in Germany and Austria . |
| 5 | Almost a tree in fact . |
| 6 | There is almost a tradition of taking the family to the links , and introducing off-spring to the ancient game , as my own father did with me ; very akin to the Scottish fishing tradition . |
| 7 | Its working methods were almost a caricature of those prevailing in high political bodies in Moscow . |
| 8 | THE scene was a Tory idyll , almost a caricature of Home Counties Britishness . |
| 9 | With his shorts flapping around his knees and his wispy , thinning hair he was almost a caricature of a footballer , but Wally could mesmerise his opposing full-back or swerve past him at a deceptive pace , before putting across an accurate , teasing centre . |
| 10 | For many years her life was almost a caricature of the daily round of the Victorian upper-class spinster . |
| 11 | Physically she 's the epitome , almost a caricature of the male fantasy dream girl , and I was stupid enough to endow her with all the other attributes I thought the perfect woman should have . ’ |
| 12 | The track which you follow from the village of Gavarnie to the cirque is necessarily a good , well-worn one , almost a road for much of the journey , through beech woods and then across open grasslands , before the last rough and rocky stretch up into the mouth of the cirque . |
| 13 | Duckham is a much more hapless figure : rather a constrained Everyman , almost a bore in fact . |
| 14 | ‘ There is almost a foot of it out there , ’ Guillamon told him , his blue eyes like ice . |
| 15 | In the E , areas with scattered trees and bushes , from palm groves and oases to villages and towns ; in the W , as a very recent colonist , mainly since 1950 , almost a commensal of man , especially in towns and villages , and where grain is fed to other birds . |
| 16 | ‘ We have a break of almost a fortnight after the Sheffield United game on Wednesday . |
| 17 | I said nothing to her , of course ; she was considered almost a goddess in Berlin , had a huge following . |
| 18 | His statement is almost a classic of philistinism . |
| 19 | East of this , £1 assessments topped the 45 per cent mark only in Samford hundred , which was practically coterminous with the ‘ rich loam ’ area , identified by Arthur Young , and in the north-eastern corner of the county , which he was ‘ much inclined to class ’ with it , and was almost a part of Norfolk . |
| 20 | Make them feel almost a part of it , thought Dalziel . |
| 21 | The sound of the water had become muted ; like background music , it receded from consciousness , becoming almost a part of the stillness and the silence . |
| 22 | It 's almost a case of sensory overload . |
| 23 | Almost a case of history repeating itself , Episode Three ( 'Conspiracy' ) went out on air later than scheduled due to the death of a world-renowned statesman — in this case thanks to the lengthy coverage given to the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill on 30 January 1965 . |
| 24 | Baker 's later , less delirious work includes Gorillas in the Mist ( 1988 ) almost a case of ( to quote D W Griffith on Henry King 's Tol'able David , ( 1921 ) ‘ Too good , dear boy , too good , too good ! ’ |
| 25 | But the relationship was extremely good , I think that you might say that for many years in my service , it was almost a case of the law abiding citizens in Ipswich coping with the wrongdoers . |
| 26 | It was almost a relief to be being attacked on this particular issue , because there were other far more personal ones to be dreaded . |
| 27 | I think it was almost a relief to him — after all this time . ’ |
| 28 | Which was almost a relief after the agony of my abused foot . |
| 29 | Christopher Booker 's thoughts on the subject are worth quoting in full for he manages to incorporate a good quota of folk devils in his account , and provides almost a blueprint of the conservative-historical position : |
| 30 | His novels , and in particular two novels of the sea which in many ways closely resembled certain of Conrad 's extended stories , assert the pre-eminence of story , of what happens next : in the balance he holds between character and event , in the way he directs his narrative , he provides almost a blueprint of the classic adventure genre . |