Example sentences of "almost [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flowers and creepers became almost part of the architecture . |
| 2 | By then I felt almost part of this cruelly depleted family . |
| 3 | Most of them were young horsemen on the East Anglian farms and a braided belt was almost part of the dress . |
| 4 | Sexual intrigues were almost part of the culture of high politics , and were commonplace in big Whig and Tory families in the early nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Taylor and Walton note that sabotage can be difficult to define : at one end it merges with informal practices which become almost part of normal procedure , ‘ neither openly demanded nor openly questioned ’ , while in extreme cases sabotage may be identified with explicitly political violence . |
| 6 | It was a good thought that ; almost money in the bank . |
| 7 | Indeed their protest against restrictions on the individual was almost anarchist in tone . |
| 8 | At first their efforts were disorganized and almost anarchist in inspiration : the movement ‘ to the people ’ in 1874 virtually ignored the political sphere . |
| 9 | Now it 's almost hour by hour as it 's very difficult to know what morphine dose Ruth should be on . |
| 10 | On the last lap , we watched three cars coming towards the chequered flag almost side by side : Andretti , Depailler and Hunt . |
| 11 | ‘ Believe me , ’ said Mrs Greville , and there was almost pity in her voice . |
| 12 | This has become almost par for the course in English qualifying campaigns under Robson : they were breached only once in reaching the last European Championship finals . |
| 13 | It was not a case of being almost heaven on skis at Argentiere but reborn . |
| 14 | That absence of detail is , however , most surprising , given this sensitivity to living space , for there are almost none of those sustained descriptions that become almost routine in Victorian fiction . |
| 15 | The old boy soldiered on , perplexed , till almost teatime on the first one-dayer , before throwing in the towel with blanket irony — ‘ Well , if I do n't know their names , at least it 's jolly nice to see all the familiar faces again . ’ |
| 16 | th you er I mean if it were very heavy you 'd almost sort of be prepared for it to go , but you know when you 're s s standing with a , something quite light , and you might have been standing with it a little while in your hand , and then suddenly the hand goes and ca n't you see that 's ve that 's very upsetting , it makes you not very confident . |
| 17 | really I mean what you 're almost sort of presiding over is a sort of steady decline , really , but on the other hand I think some people think if you can make that as erm as sort of dignified as you can and actually give them sort of support when they actually need it , |
| 18 | and I felt quite happy especially with a bow tie on , you know , it had been , it had gone you know and in a way we sort of could almost sort of |
| 19 | Brontes ' lives are almost sort of erm part of British history are n't they ? |
| 20 | Sort of , looks almost sort of shinyish ? |
| 21 | And I almost sort of |
| 22 | It was late in the afternoon , almost evening by now , and the restaurants were beginning to fill up as people emerged from their siestas and began to promenade the streets . |
| 23 | The guest list for Anne 's wedding , at Crathie Church , has varied almost day by day . |
| 24 | Our experience of people in that condition is that they are not in a steady state so , rightly , the prescription must be altered almost day by day according to the pain of the patient . |
| 25 | Almost midnight in fact . |
| 26 | It was almost dusk on a February afternoon and we stood with Will Peach , ‘ Starling Man ’ , in Abbey Park , a 73-acre green space in the centre of Leicester . |
| 27 | Not only must you keep an almost minute by minute diary of what you are doing and why , but once you have accumulated all the information you must then analyse it . |
| 28 | I noted , and we 've already had the flavour of it , in to some respect today , that initially you had almost unanimity of support from the District Councils er York City have changed their view erm and equally Hambledon are very luke warm , if I put it no more than that , er on the idea of a new settlement in the sense that they probably support the principle of the new settlement , but not in Hambledon . |
| 29 | Bringing 7 visiting teams here and putting on the matches will cost almost quarter of a million pounds . |
| 30 | What studies did contribute to was its amendment , its clarification , its reinterpretation , its revision , its incorporation and almost replacement by other perspectives , in light of accumulating evidence from a wide range of studies . |