Example sentences of "[be] almost the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're almost the same age , I 'm just a few months older . |
| 2 | Chris Stoney says I 'm almost the happiest person in the world . |
| 3 | What needs to be emphasised , though , is that direct experience — becoming part of a way of life that includes the alien in a wider definition of what it is to be human — seems to be almost the only way of achieving demystification . |
| 4 | Yes , I was there erm and saw them working , and I think you were looking fairly amazed that the answer came out to be almost the correct answer on several occasions , with quite different bits of apparatus . |
| 5 | in the following issue of The Building News asked if ‘ E.A.F. ’ had ever heard of an astylar composition , but another reply , from ‘ A. ’ in The Times on 1st November , was to be almost the last comment in that newspaper on the controversy . |
| 6 | In 1799 Wordsworth 's own daughter , Caroline , would be almost the same age as Emma ; he had , of course , never seen her . |
| 7 | They are almost the only people about . |
| 8 | These people in the houseboat are almost the only people she knows outside her family . |
| 9 | To the north , where Poitou borders on the Vendee , shapely clumps of trees are almost the only punctuation marks on widespreading marshy landscapes ; to the south it bubbles with little rolling hills . |
| 10 | ‘ Career politicians are almost the only politicians left in the upper echelons of British politics and government , ’ observed Professor Anthony King , the loquacious professor of government at Essex University in the early eighties . |
| 11 | Now you 'll see that there are almost the same number of slots in in each . |
| 12 | The leaf-stalks are almost the same length as the leaf-blades . |
| 13 | If she was not , then she must have been almost the only member of Edinburgh political society who managed to know nothing about it — and that in itself would be a comment on her political awareness . |
| 14 | It had been almost the unofficial waste basket papers were dumped there to be kept but no one had been through it carefully for perhaps a century . |
| 15 | They are also more than twice as likely to develop their own meanings as they are to extend those contributed by children , this ratio being almost the exact opposite of that found in the speech of parents . |
| 16 | The psychological and moral elements of political action were almost the only ones to appear here , which is why intellectuals least inclined to politics were to be seen in the Resistance . |
| 17 | Craftsmanship in wood , leathern iron and silver was quite highly developed among the Yakuts in the seventeenth century , and they were almost the only north Siberian people to make pottery . |
| 18 | Englishmen had been settling overseas for a century and a half but their colonies had been inhabited by people who , apart from the slaves who got no choice in the matter , had no particular difficulty in committing themselves to being loyal to King George : Englishmen , Scotsmen , Irishmen , or Germans would accept the King without question , and the Dutch of New York and the Acadians of Nova Scotia were almost the only people who had ever been asked to make a serious change of allegiance , which had been harder for the Acadians because of religious differences . |
| 19 | I hardly ever see her now because she does n't go out and neither do I. But I used to see her when her husband was alive , indeed they were almost the only people I ever saw . |
| 20 | Under the surface draining or thorough water-draining of the land had to be undertaken on a more planned and workmanlike scale than had been done formerly ; for now the below-surface drains had to take off most of the water and conduct it to the ditches , and had not merely to assist the wasteful system of frequent water-furrows on the surface , as the old bush-drains had done when they were almost the sole method of under-draining . |
| 21 | BROTHERS Steven and Matthew Rivers were almost the same ages as Princes William and Harry when their small world fell apart . |
| 22 | Then she leant forward — they were almost the same height — and caressed his cheek with her lips . |
| 23 | At first he did not identify Maud Bailey , and he himself was not in any way remarkable , so that they were almost the last pair at the wicket gate . |
| 24 | Most glider pilots have never experienced anything more hazardous than a bad landing , so reading and talking about other people 's mistakes is almost the only way of becoming aware of the kind of situations which lead to broken gliders . |
| 25 | In fact , it is almost the only way . |
| 26 | This ‘ transposition ’ of fourth groupings is almost the only way to avoid the continuous recurrence of the same notes , which could become obvious and stagnant . |
| 27 | The evidence relating to her father is almost the only approach to much of Mary Leapor 's life , certainly to the first ten years . |
| 28 | He said of holy relics : ‘ England is almost the only country in the world where there is not some favourite religious spot where absurd lies , little bits of cloth , feathers , splinters , rusty nails and other invaluable relics are treasured up and in defence of which the whole population are willing to turn out and perish as one man . ’ |
| 29 | Plants are closing all over Europe as recession deepens on the continent and particular industries make the painful adjustments to their own private new world orders , but the announcement that Digital Equipment Corp was to close its venerable 22-year-old manufacturing plant in Galway has drawn international attention that far exceeds anything generated by threatened closures such as the even more venerable truck plant that is almost the only employer in the Lancashire town of Leyland , and involved a threat to many more jobs . |
| 30 | Apart from the use of referenda , which are a regular feature of politics in the United States , Switzerland and some other countries , jury service , as an obligation which may in principle fall upon any citizen , is almost the sole vestige of direct citizen participation in law-making and administration which survives in modern democracies . |