Example sentences of "almost [noun sg] of " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 , |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | Brontes ' lives are almost sort of erm part of British history are n't they ? |
| 10 | Sort of , looks almost sort of shinyish ? |
| 11 | And I almost sort of |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Bringing 7 visiting teams here and putting on the matches will cost almost quarter of a million pounds . |
| 14 | the almost lack of calendar |
| 15 | She was lying almost abeam of us , and at first I could n't see her hull , but only a sort of thickening of the mist that turned out to be her mast . |
| 16 | The atmosphere in the almost semidarkness of the cottage was very homely ; the food was good , a typical French meal of roast chicken , vegetables and roast potatoes . |