Example sentences of "[noun] is almost a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Robert Thornton , Mrs Gaskell 's honourable industrialist , this indifference is almost a matter of principle : ‘ The masters would be trenching on the independence of their hands , in a way that I , for one , would not feel justified in doing , if we interfered too much with the life they lead out of the mills . ’ |
| 2 | Many of the photographs are of almost unknown objects ; the bibliography is almost a book in itself and there is a fully illustrated catalogue raisonné of the medieval European jewellery in the V&A . |
| 3 | BY petrol engine standards , a small diesel is almost a contradiction in terms . |
| 4 | Wild thing : pricey at £17 , but this hand-painted mug from Honiton Pottery is almost a work of art . |
| 5 | Golding 's technique in such passages is almost a reversal of the procedure which marks such a great step in the development of Lok 's reasoning capacity . |
| 6 | Occasion is almost a synonym of cause in many contexts : ( 168 ) She asked Mathilda what occasioned Manfred to take Theodore for a spectre . |
| 7 | Ignorance is almost a crime in some cases . |
| 8 | Hand-cutting of hay by scythe is almost a thing of the past , as people either have their own tractor-driven machines or can hire someone to do the job . |
| 9 | At present an ethology of cognition is almost a contradiction in terms . |
| 10 | His statement is almost a classic of philistinism . |
| 11 | Some were the direct result of campaigning by the Railway Development Society and the list is almost a tribute to it . |
| 12 | The third and final category is almost a superordinate to the other two in that it asks how all the changes implied in the first two aspects are being handled . |
| 13 | People in Western Europe , for example , rarely dispute that Jesus lived , but in Eastern Europe the denial of his historical existence is almost a canon of Marxist dogma . |
| 14 | Form-filling is almost a way of life in these former Soviet republics and Walker , not surprisingly , recommended a streamlining of this practice . |
| 15 | He says ; The set is almost a recollection of Fairport 's career . |