Example sentences of "[adj] and almost [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final shattering of the delusion did not take place until the 1940s ; but when it did occur , it prompted not the abandonment of the system of the delusion itself but a further and almost incredible elaboration of it . |
| 2 | Having written all of these clever , fresh and almost poetic sounding lyrics ; which are backed by everything from African percussions to Rock guitar , Toyah can be satisfied with having produced such an innovative album . |
| 3 | The growing numbers of underemployed middle- or upper-class women , for whom unpaid charitable work was one of the very few socially acceptable occupations , supplied a willing and almost endless supply of volunteers for such activity , such as has been available at no other period of British history . |
| 4 | After such endorsements from a man who , despite being a migrant from the Mid-West has been transformed instinctively into a prime example of Homo Pacificus , it would have been a foolish and almost unpatriotic American who professed otherwise . |
| 5 | In the uplands , where access is almost universally by car or coach trip , virtually all surveys point out that well over half of visitors never leave either their cars or the car park and that there is a marked and almost complete segregation of the active walker from the passive pursuits of picnicking and scenic viewing ( Haffey , 1979 ) . |
| 6 | In addition to single blooms , there are several semi-double and double kinds that open wide and full with a ‘ mop ’ of smaller curled petals at the centre , sometimes shading to a deeper colour at the base that suggests bi-colour , a different and almost foreign appearance . |
| 7 | The problem here , as far as I can see , is not so much the definition of fictionality in itself , but the fact that such a definition is applied in a rigid and almost prescriptive fashion , with little consideration for the way in which texts are actually perceived in their own contexts of production and reception . |
| 8 | While on the part of the state there has been a continual and almost unlimited welcome for the mining multinationals , there has been an increasing sophistication in the response by communities confronted by them . |
| 9 | This time he had to wipe away tears and the handkerchief left an intriguing and almost symmetrical pattern below the deep , black bags under his eyes . |
| 10 | The simple and almost revolutionary message of Francis had the fortune to reach the ears and attention of a pope of spiritual vision who , while not able to fill that role himself , recognized the strength and power that might be harnessed to both the papal curia and the Church as a whole . |
| 11 | Its obvious injustice would entirely destroy all confidence in the integrity of Government , and any reliance professional men might be induced to give to official programmes in the future ; while its realisation would inflict a serious and almost irreparable injury on the dignity and integrity of a liberal profession . |
| 12 | ‘ This going round the world is a very easy and almost imperceptible business ; there is no difficulty about it ’ , he wrote to The Times from a ship in the middle of the Pacific in November 1872 . |
| 13 | Only the former type produces oscillograms like those in Fig. 2.10 with contrasted intervals of vigorously fluctuating and almost constant velocity . |
| 14 | He pointed out to me the ‘ Thief 's Corrie ’ — a dismal place only accessible at one point - that point the apex of a rocky and almost perpendicular water-course ; he said one man could hold the pass against five hundred , and I inclined to agree with him . |
| 15 | Having raised his standard at the very nadir of France 's fortunes , when to do so seemed a hopeless and almost irrational gesture , he claimed the high ground of principle for himself . |
| 16 | ‘ Do you remember how it used to be between us , Jessamy ? ’ he went on in that same low and almost hypnotic voice . |
| 17 | The first is that of many Catholics who already thought the Council a strange and almost unnecessary development . |
| 18 | The question had a strange and almost forlorn appeal . |
| 19 | The extent of the childlike and almost filial loyalty felt by the ordinary man everywhere towards his ruler , the great fund of emotion of this sort upon which a monarch could still draw , are clearly seen in France in the crisis of 1789 . |
| 20 | But is this broad and almost pantheistic frame of reference in itself any more valid than , for example , the traditional Christian affirmation of the absolute uniqueness of Jesus as the incarnation of God ? |
| 21 | Bonar Law was a startling choice for the party of the " Hotel Cecil " , for he was a self-made and almost self-educated businessman from the outlying parts of the Empire ( Scotland , Ulster and Canada provided his roots ) . |
| 22 | We did not therefore send off the telegram he had drafted to Molotov , more especially as he had received from Eden a cold and almost minatory minute just before the Cabinet began . |
| 23 | Earnings per share was traditionally the prime and almost exclusive measure of performance . |
| 24 | The effect of jitter in a digital system is to reduce precision , clarity , stereo imagery and that curious and almost indefinable property normally described as ‘ timing ’ and which loosely translates into a feeling that the musicians are not all on the same wavelength . |
| 25 | In part this occurs , I believe , because large organizations have a curious and almost inevitable tendency to centralize . |
| 26 | Throwing it open , he lifted out a sinewy and almost reptilian form , holding it aloft and going down the line of young men , offering it briefly to each in turn . |
| 27 | It explored the meanings of ‘ independence ’ and confronted the argument that the Council was itself a myth and the reality was the powerful and almost autonomous subject boards . |
| 28 | But civil strife and political violence , the quick and easy expedients of the gun and the bomb , already had for him a romantic and almost Byronic aura . |
| 29 | Pakistan 's 380 meant a lead of 173 and almost certain success . |
| 30 | Each must decide as he pleases , according to whether his temperament urges him to prefer the prolific , radiant , almost jovial abundance of Rubens ; the mild dignity and eurhythmic order of Raphael ; the paradisal — one might almost say the afternoon colour of Veronese ; the austere and strained severity of David ; or the dramatic and almost literary rhetoric of Lebrun . |