Example sentences of "[verb] a almost [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of eating the troll flesh he has developed several troll-like traits and has an almost trollish resistance to injury . |
| 2 | Although use of the IUD and condom has increased , especially among educated women , the rise of sterilization is much more important as it marks an almost certain end to childbearing ( table 4.3 ) . |
| 3 | Kostomarov expressed an almost identical antipathy to the state in his inaugural lecture of November 1859 . |
| 4 | It is in the three largest works on the recording that Demidenko is at his very best , with incredibly strong and deep sonorities at the end of the C major Toccato , Adagio and Fugue , providing an almost terrifying conclusion to this monumental work . |
| 5 | Article 42 went on to give an almost supplementary right to the state in providing for a child 's education by acknowledging the right of parents to school their children in their own home should they wish it . |
| 6 | He wove these and other influences from Florentine contemporaries into a distinctive manner , at once responding to the plastic values of Donatello but never renouncing an almost calligraphic approach to outlines and drapery . |
| 7 | ( This little homily seems to have an almost biblical flavour to it . ) |
| 8 | She had an almost overwhelming longing to be held against that hard chest , enfolded in strong arms , and that was more worrying than anything else . |
| 9 | Joseph , who succeeded the Ritz-Escoffier partnership , had an almost unique devotion to his art . |
| 10 | General knowledge quizzes of the trivial pursuit type are useful money raisers but are so popular that they are beginning to be dominated by teams that take an almost professional approach to the game . |
| 11 | The whole movie industry had become obsessed with achieving respectability by widening the mix of patrons and in the trade papers we see an almost frenetic attention to the small details of improving comfort and achieving the right publicity . |
| 12 | There are extraordinarily vivid and exuberant pictures which are countered by others which have an almost penitential mood to them . |