Example sentences of "[noun] almost to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fill the rest of the tray almost to the top with potting compost . |
| 2 | He showed her one , from the doorway , where the great plaster-covered beam had cracked right along the front wall of the house , pressed down by the roof , and sagged in a filthy , green-stained vee almost to the floor . |
| 3 | Ashen-faced , she was gibbering quietly to herself , her petrol-sodden hair plastered to her head and her dripping gown showing her legs almost to the crotch . |
| 4 | They managed to remove the tureen almost to the door : until , that is , they discovered the flex was plugged into the wall through a hole in the bar . |
| 5 | FILL basket almost to the brim with a mix of one part sharp sand to three parts loam-based potting compost . |
| 6 | And when it sprayed sparks almost to the edge of the wide hearth he made no comment , such as , ‘ Be careful . |
| 7 | None the less these had been sufficient to bring the war almost to a stop . |
| 8 | It was eight days almost to the minute since the undertaker had arrived at the house on stilts and rung the doorbell for the last time . |
| 9 | As the Assembly rose to its feet ‘ amid shouts and tears ’ few of them would have realized that it was sixty years almost to the day since the Assembly of the Third Republic had responded in much the same way to the Tonkin crisis of 1885 . |
| 10 | Then he bowed low , touching his forehead almost to the board . |
| 11 | Fill the pot almost to the top with compost . |
| 12 | City Hall has raised local taxation almost to an art-form over the past 20 years — not least , to plug the gaps left by a fall since the early 1980s in the share of spending covered by grants from state and federal sources . |
| 13 | Spatz stood quickly , bowing his head almost to the desktop . |
| 14 | An unusually cold winter in 1916/17 brought the city of Paris almost to a halt . |
| 15 | He had no doubt that , mentally , most of the group now waiting in the library to be interviewed were following his actions almost to the minute . |
| 16 | Some strands in Christendom , particularly the Catholic , have laid stress on God the Father almost to the exclusion of the Son and the Spirit . |
| 17 | Their front was protected by the Glen , and the foothills in which they deployed their forces , low though they lay , were well-grown with bushes and clumps of trees almost to the waterside , and afforded a clear field of vision before them . |
| 18 | His only luxury was the purchase of books , which filled his canonical lodgings almost to the point of impenetrability — even the bath contained the files of the Church Quarterly Review — but his library was unsystematic and lacked bibliographical distinction . |
| 19 | Health authorities , doctors , nurses , professional organizations , trade unions , administrators and managers were seriously at odds over whether the proposed reforms to the hospital service were beneficial or disastrous , and the all-consuming nature of the massive organizational ‘ shake-up ’ preoccupied the NHS and the media almost to the exclusion of anything else . |
| 20 | For the people of Pakistan , Maulana Abdul Sattar Edhi commands respect almost to the point of worship . |
| 21 | By diminishing the outward evidence of his authority almost to the point of invisibility , he demonstrated to the people and perhaps more importantly to himself that he could perform his duties not only without resort to force but without any discernible support at all : like Hugh Clifford 's Sir Philip Hanbury-Erskine choosing to deal with rebellion not as a governor but as ‘ a man ’ , he was effacing not himself but his institutional context . |
| 22 | With hair parted in the middle , he retained the appearance of a youthful student almost to the end . |
| 23 | She looked out of the big foyer window , which ran from the floor almost to the ceiling , at the empty pathways and the silent buildings outside . |
| 24 | There was no shrub and palm cover bound by creepers as there had been in the rain forest so that the track was little protected from the squalls that struck up the mountainside , screeching like banshees , as they bowed the slender treetrunks almost to the ground . |
| 25 | Gritting her teeth against the acid flow of retorts , Fran hurried on , quickening her pace almost to a run in an attempt to get away , but he just drove along beside her . |
| 26 | Browndown Beach 0900 hours almost to the minute , and RFA Sir Percivale is dropping anchor 400 yards offshore . |
| 27 | dropped its skirts of branch almost to the lawn , |
| 28 | But the long haul through the muddy roads slowed the horses ' progress almost to a walk , and it was not until after five in the evening that the vehicle finally came to a halt outside the George inn in Mountsorrel , a little place some distance before the larger town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch . |
| 29 | East Prussia , jutting out from the River Vistula almost to the centre of the River Niemen , was penned between the Baltic Sea and the northern frontier of Russian Poland and so could be attacked from either , or both , east and south . |
| 30 | THE RT REV CHARLES Renfrew , who has died aged 62 , maintained an active ministry almost to the end of his life , despite being a kidney dialysis patient . |