Example sentences of "was almost [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth was , of course , that hard-nosed journalist though she was , Margie was as attracted to Hugo as was almost every other woman who met him and she actually wanted him to like her . |
| 2 | The affliction was a subject for after-dinner conversation whenever he felt like talking about it , which was almost every time he ever had a conversation . |
| 3 | There was almost no time of day when we could be together alone . |
| 4 | ‘ There was almost no one in the gallery , ’ Surkov growled . |
| 5 | There was almost no traffic on the roads , though it was only ten-thirty . |
| 6 | For some reason there was almost no one else there . |
| 7 | There was almost no money on course for the horse and the only serious cash , about £1,000 in a series of small bets , was placed in the Bradford area . |
| 8 | There was almost no escape from television . |
| 9 | I arranged for Jaggers to be his lawyer , but Jaggers warned me there was almost no hope of saving his life . |
| 10 | All such activities paid dividends in the sense that , until the second half of the seventies , there was almost no questioning of the Shah 's priorities or stability in the American press or congress . |
| 11 | In fact , by this stage , the state Department knew that there was almost no country prepared to accept the Shah . |
| 12 | At the beginning of the nineteenth century , there was almost no standardization in science or in technology . |
| 13 | The scourging voice always did this , whatever golden kernel of hope she treasured , so scared of losing it , it was almost a secret even to herself … the voice seized it , shredded it , pissed on it , trampled it . |
| 14 | There was almost a desperation about the way we 'd try and fill our recreational time with something worthwhile . |
| 15 | It was almost a year before it was strictly necessary and at the time there were voices advising delay . |
| 16 | It seems likely that both the concern of political parties and of the public at the activities of the BUF was totally out of all proportion to its importance and to the political challenge which it presented ; as John Stevenson and Chris Cook wrote ‘ British fascism was almost a non-starter ’ . |
| 17 | But in the ever-expanding American economy whose production doubled in the decade , it was almost a patriotic duty to consume as conspicuously as possible . |
| 18 | She seemed to be staring back at him with a smile that was almost a grimace of pain yet somehow full of mockery . |
| 19 | It was almost a religious conviction he had , and one which gave him the courage to carry out his plans . |
| 20 | Staff got frazzled , speakers got angry and there was almost a fist fight between some of my colleagues and the lighting technicians . |
| 21 | At almost any cost Casey wanted him back , but this was almost a private , rather than a public , duty . |
| 22 | After Joseph 's death that year : ‘ … the journey of the Holy Crown from Vienna to Buda in February 1790 was almost a triumphal procession . |
| 23 | So low it was almost a vibration . |
| 24 | A minute later , there was almost a repeat , Norbury crossing again but Dublin shooting over from five yards . |
| 25 | The first attempt was almost a disaster , but he got the plane up again and came round for a second shot . |
| 26 | The late Tim Brookshaw , not famous for faint-heartedness , danced an eloquent jig on top of the last fence at Leicester to show how hard it was , and one day there was almost a jockeys ' strike at Plumpton . |
| 27 | They were ready to move on the appointed day and , at the end of the summer , they would begin the trek back to the village on their own , as soon as they smelt the smoke of the bonfires in which the thatch and the bedding from the shielings were destroyed , for reasons which today we might classify as ‘ environmental health ’ , but which , to the young folk of the shieling , was almost a ritual . |
| 28 | John 's face creased into what was almost a scowl . |
| 29 | When one recalls the Emperor 's addiction to cigarettes — he was almost a chain-smoker — his rooms must have frequently appeared as places of torment to those who had business to transact there . |
| 30 | The decision to contest the election was taken against McGonagle 's advice , but the percentage result was almost a re-run of 1962 , with 7,825 votes for McAteer and 4,371 for Quinn , a percentage of 35.8 for Independent Labour . |