Example sentences of "[be] almost [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're almost you 're almost fluent in English are n't you ? |
| 2 | I 'm almost sure in fact , probably have . |
| 3 | Here we find songs which use the thirty-two-bar form but fill it with angular melody and tonally shifting harmony ( ‘ All the Things You Are ’ ; ‘ Body and Soul ’ ) or with polyrhythms ( ‘ Fascinatin' Rhythm ’ ) ; we find , too , a song like George Gershwin 's ‘ A Foggy Day ’ , which does not use a standard form , boasts a tune consisting almost entirely of leaps , rather than innocuous conjunct motion , and is structured with such motivic tightness as to be almost serial in method ( see Ex. 6.3 , p. 184 below ) . |
| 4 | Ana seemed to be almost hungry for company and she took to coming along to Maggie 's room to chat , although she never spoke of her blindness and Maggie ventured no questions . |
| 5 | Accordingly two sets of legislation were introduced in the 1960s : the Race Relations Act , which maintained the liberal facade of the state and which , though so weak as to be almost useless in practice , had as a basis the assumption that black people were a part of the community and needed to be protected from racial prejudice : in contrast , and much more effective , were the Immigration Acts , which themselves discriminated against black workers . |
| 6 | Other regions that on the face of it may seem rather benign — including open reaches of tropical ocean — may , for long periods , be almost devoid of life . |
| 7 | Annadale are almost certain of victory and making a clean sweep of the male athletics competitions in the province from the under-13s upwards . |
| 8 | Financial accounts must be produced , cost accounts are almost essential for survival , and management accounts are a key ingredient to safe expansion . |
| 9 | The clouds are almost white in appearance , with the merest tinge of yellow , and their existence shows that Venus has an atmosphere to support them . |
| 10 | The early amphorae of the Kleophrades Painter are almost indistinguishable in style from those of Euthymides , whose pupil he must have been ; but he also favours the calyx-krater , something he owes to Euphronios 's example . |
| 11 | Some are almost indistinguishable from desktop publishing systems . |
| 12 | The sketchbook and notebook pages for the day are almost indecipherable with rain drop splodges . |
| 13 | Nutritionally , infant formulas are almost identical to breast milk , although , as Dr Peter Sullivan points out , as far as building up your baby 's resistance to infection goes , they have absolutely no effect . |
| 14 | Fortunately , young children are almost free from fear . |
| 15 | This idea has been applied to the African Plate which , according to some analyses of plate motions , appears to have been almost stationary with respect to the underlying asthenosphere for the past 25–35 Ma . |
| 16 | By 1872 the free coloured population in Brazil was almost three times as large as the slave population , and even among pure Negroes the two groups were almost equal in number . |
| 17 | Hare had noticed that the windows of Fleming 's laboratory were rarely opened and indeed were almost inaccessible across laboratory benches stacked with glassware . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , it has been wonderful , querida , ’ he agreed quietly , his eyes softening till they were almost hazel in shade . |
| 19 | They were almost right on top of her before they saw her . |
| 20 | At one of the nearby graves , there was a sudden scattering of earth away from the grave , leaving a pair of arms visible — the normally dark skin was now the grey of the fungal covering of a rotten potato , while the undersides of the arms were almost black with blood that had gathered there since the heart had stopped pumping . |
| 21 | When his eyes returned to her face they were almost black with desire . |
| 22 | The front doors were almost bare of paint and shadows cast by the gas flame took on weird shapes . |
| 23 | Some of the coins were almost green with age . |
| 24 | They and Gerry were almost bulimic with curiosity when a 2ft 11ins girl who 'd had herself stretched to 5ft came on . |
| 25 | While Janet 's plants stayed strong and proud throughout the bad weather , mine were almost horizontal by spring . |
| 26 | The tower is almost equal in height to the surmounting spire , creating aesthetically appealing proportion and a height of some 295 feet . |
| 27 | This takes place mainly up in the forest canopy , and so is almost impossible to film from the ground . |
| 28 | Even if it is almost impossible in worship to accept that which we dislike , we should not be dismissive of those who do not share our preferences . |
| 29 | It is the kind of area where keeping a close eye on the map is almost essential for peace of mind — asking the way could prove difficult , to say the least . |
| 30 | Redolent of exotic fruit and scented soap , it is almost sweet-and-sour in character — seemingly sweet at the rich bouquet stage , but satisfyingly dry — almost sour — as you come through the pungent taste . |