Example sentences of "[noun] almost [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weight , however , is slightly on the left foot , short grasp of club with both wrists at angle to the shaft , the left hand being rather over the shaft ( to right ) ; take the club almost straight back from the ball with club head lifted but slightly . |
| 2 | Once you have got into an improvising state of mind almost any piece of furniture will begin to develop potential . |
| 3 | At present , each student has a subscription paid automatically to student associations where they exist , and the associations almost all affiliate in turn to the National Union of Students . |
| 4 | When he hung on to the ball there was a strange , self-assured almost narcissistic side to his game . |
| 5 | Maria had loved radio with a passion from early childhood , her faith in its power to survive unimpaired through all the years when television threatened to make it obsolete , and justified now that it was enjoying an upsurge in popularity in so many countries , thriving new stations almost daily news at present . |
| 6 | A more lenient standard , set out on legislation in 1975 , permits judges ( at their discretion ) to admit as evidence almost any opinion from an ‘ expert witness ’ , defined as someone who is qualified ‘ by knowledge , skill , experience , training or education ’ to speak to a given subject . |
| 7 | You can buy forced hydrangeas from florists and garden centres almost any time of year these days , and sometimes in the most tempting , vibrant blues . |
| 8 | Perhaps the most obvious example is Jaggers almost compulsive washing of hands which hints towards him feeling guilty perhaps about the way he runs his business and treats his clients . |
| 9 | On the basis of the MAFF-DoE memo this would seem likely to include the farming and fertiliser industries , and would give the Ministry of Agriculture almost total control over the policy . |
| 10 | Freeze-frame almost any moment in this visually striking piece and one would end up with an abstract and richly textured landscape evoking the bright southern light of Margarit 's native Spain . |
| 11 | The affair also highlights the major lesson of the strike : the law was flexible enough , and the courts were deferential enough , to allow the police almost unrestrained freedom of manoeuvre . |
| 12 | Her purchase by the B. J. Norsk Forsking of Larvik for seismographical work in the Bellingshausen Sea almost due south of the Horn was , as Ward put it , ‘ just about the very first good thin' that had ever happened to her , ’ even if it was a slightly clandestine operation . |
| 13 | The difference of approach illustrated here between the apparently hard-working development from carefully formulated theory towards new ideas to be tested where there are gaps in the subject on the one hand and this last-mentioned almost accidental following-up of ideas that just seem to occur out of the blue , would , on the face of things , seem to make it difficult to use two such disparate methods of enquiry in one discipline . |