Example sentences of "almost [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I , I 'd give you two , one is my favourite of all shrub roses which is Fantan la tour which has what one can only describe as loosened sort of shaggy shell pink flowers with the most exquisite perfume , it 's a , it 's an untidy flower like the old shrub roses really should be the best of them erm and a very pale shell pink , a wonderful variety , not particularly repeat flowering , relatively short flowering season but so wonderful when it is in flower and the other one , er she says she does n't like red , now is n't really red , it 's a very very deep reddish purple and it 's a variety called Tuscany Superb and I grow Tuscany Superb in my garden alongside er some fennel , a foliage fennel plant and the feathery fennel together with , almost the aniseed aroma of the fennel together with these deep deep purple flowers of Tuscany Superb is absolutely wonderful , it 's actually on the edge of my herb garden . |
| 2 | ’ And that 's almost the way I planned it . |
| 3 | The real search space is almost the cover of the naive one . |
| 4 | Exhausted , she had slept almost the clock round that first night , and often found herself dozing during the day . |
| 5 | This is almost the position in which the Liberal party has found itself in recent elections ( see Table 5.2 ) . |
| 6 | With the same amp settings the low hum single coils sing with almost the character of a Gibson P90 . |
| 7 | It is in five movements , and is graced by a major role for the solo oboe , giving it almost the character of a concerto . |
| 8 | I realised that almost the instant she left me . ’ |
| 9 | So you would still be able to identify targets but those targets may become a bit more general , I E because in the past the landlord as a class had always sided with the Kuomintang then i it gives you the opportunity to go back and attack them , almost the landlords per se in a way you could n't during the Japanese war because clearly loyal landlords were fighting the Japanese . |
| 10 | But whereas in the early 1920s , cheapie production had constituted almost the entirety of British filmmaking , in the 1930s there existed a more ambitious production sector running in parallel . |
| 11 | Many still survive , the pedimented Marriott House in Westgate , and , best of all , almost the entirety of North Street with Nash 's Doric Market House of 1807 as its focus . |
| 12 | One species that has done this is Volvox , a hollow sphere , almost the size of a pinhead , constructed from a large number of cells , each with a flagellum . |
| 13 | In the province of Alberta alone , public timberlands almost the size of the UK have been leased to a dozen firms . |
| 14 | The expedition was invited because Siberian oil companies plan to extend their operations north from the existing centre at Noyabrsk into the Krasnoselkup region , which covers an area of 106,000 square kilometres , almost the size of England . |
| 15 | Fifty-three years old when he came to the throne , and crippled by the kick of a horse in his youth , what could he do against all these turbulent and forceful lords , his brother Albany , his son Rothesay , and these Black Douglases who bore almost the prestige of a royal dynasty ? |
| 16 | Rush green , an acid green , almost the green |
| 17 | Do you see chemistry as being almost the centre of science ? |
| 18 | Part French and part halting English , it said that they planned to visit London and then Scotland , and though it would be almost the grouse shooting season there , they would come for August 12th to Yorkshire , taking up Robert 's invitation . |
| 19 | For instance , building-society deposits , bank cash accounts , and National Savings holdings all rose sharply throughout the period , especially with high interest rates prevailing for almost the whole of the 1970s . |
| 20 | for centuries they have stifled almost the whole of humanity in the name of a so-called spiritual experience . |
| 21 | And instead of distancing herself from her subject with the language of ‘ scientific ’ detachment , her message is one of passionate commitment to the primates she has studied for almost the whole of her adult life . |
| 22 | Along almost the whole of one wall was trained a cultivated blackberry bush . |
| 23 | Before turning to the decline of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ , however , we need to sketch it at its absolute zenith , in the years when Blitzkrieg victories brought almost the whole of Europe under Hitler 's command . |
| 24 | After all , almost the whole of industrial Britain became a controlled , smoke free area under the Clean Air Acts , of which the current government is so proud some 30 years later . |
| 25 | One chapter of this book is based on written autobiographies , and almost the whole of the rest on tape-recorded life story interviews . |
| 26 | After the eruption , it was found that almost the whole of one side of the cone had disappeared , and it looked as if a giant bite had been taken out of it . |
| 27 | Among the many mercies vouchsafed to our land during the year now nearly expired have been respite from famine and pestilence and preservation from Civil War , while anarchy and bloodshed have prevailed over almost the whole of Europe . |
| 28 | Love has inspired more mystical utterances than any other human emotions ; for some saints and mystics , it has been almost the whole of religion . |
| 29 | Unlike almost the whole of the rest of Roman law , trusts had by the end of the classical period been actionable in cognitio for centuries . |
| 30 | The inclusion of special relativistic accounts of thermodynamics and electromagnetism go far to bear out the author 's claim that special relativity provides ‘ a foundation on which almost the whole of modern physical theory has been built ’ . |