Example sentences of "almost [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But earnings per share almost trebled to 5 pence from 1.7 pence due to a doubling of attributable profit from GTI , and substantially improved results from the other wholly-owned companies . |
| 2 | Almost confined to sandy shores . |
| 3 | Wigan almost added to their single goal after the break . |
| 4 | The Mercedes had almost rolled to a halt about fifty yards behind them . |
| 5 | Maybe they both happened at once but from that moment everything was dreamlike and wonderful , I lost count of time as I sat there while the breathing became deep and regular and the animal began to he aware of his surroundings ; and by the time he started to look around him and twitch his tail tentatively I realized suddenly that I was stiff-jointed and almost frozen to the spot . |
| 6 | It 's almost quadrupled to three hundred and fifty a month . |
| 7 | It had almost amounted to losing two parents instead of one . |
| 8 | He told her he and Mallachy had got involved ‘ through Mallachy 's big mouth ’ in a late-club row up the Malone Road where some students had been blowing off their mouths over politics and religion , and it had almost come to blows . |
| 9 | He had a sense of inadequacy and at one point almost applied to colleges in order to get some qualifications . |
| 10 | In spite of being almost tethered to Marguerite , Jenna enjoyed the trip and was rewarded later by being instructed in the cooking of some of the purchases . |
| 11 | But the boy , almost grown to a man , |
| 12 | SURPRISE OFFER 'S big-race warm up almost turned to disaster at Brighton yesterday today . |
| 13 | A court heard how the plan almost turned to disaster when , half way across the North Sea , the dinghy began filling with water . |
| 14 | Bush has pledged cooperation until Clinton 's inauguration on January 20 and seemed almost relieved to be through with a vicious campaign . |
| 15 | United almost contributed to their own downfall , but Blackpool 's finsihing let them off the hook . |
| 16 | The outcome of bartering is almost bound to be determined by the starting points of the parties involved . |
| 17 | There are almost bound to be some children who are withdrawn from the school because of parental dissatisfaction . |
| 18 | Other more coercive measures are almost bound to be used when participation breaks down — a general issue which will be returned to later . |
| 19 | Given reasonable competence , therefore , the latest book about igneous rocks is almost bound to be the best in the sense that it will contain the most up to-date information on a fast moving field . |
| 20 | A journey into the past , with skeletons rattling in cupboards at every dark turning , was almost bound to be upsetting . |
| 21 | The case says nothing about other restaurants , but there are almost bound to be more in a city centre location . |
| 22 | Families are almost bound to be aware of the slippage in faculties or capacity to cope of an older family member , long before there is an expressed need for some form of group care , whether day care or residential care . |
| 23 | The denunciations of dangerous new ideas in the 1950 encyclical Humani Generis are intelligible enough , but by now they were almost bound to be ineffective , and as the intellectual viability of ultramontanism crumbled , the now unprotected power structure surrounding the papal monarchy came more and more into open and criticizable view . |
| 24 | There is almost bound to be incentive incompatibility between principals and agent as a consequence . |
| 25 | In fact if we go on like this we 're almost bound to . |
| 26 | My feeling is that , provided the difference between neighbouring intermediates in our series leading to the eye is sufficiently small , the necessary mutations are almost bound to be forthcoming . |
| 27 | After all , he 's been told what 's going on , she has n't — and is almost driven to suicide by his mysterious silence , ’ she explains . |
| 28 | By the end of last year , when they had three of the children , he had been almost driven to distraction . |
| 29 | DURING THE Civil War Stamford 's ancient monuments were defaced and vandalised and the whole town was almost burnt to the ground for its Royalist sympathies . |
| 30 | And she had so perfected this technique of politely disappearing , that she had to live almost half her life before she came to realize that she had almost disappeared to her own self ! |