Example sentences of "[verb] almost a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in Britain it seemed almost a law of politics under George II and George III that the Prince of Wales should act as a rallying-point for all those who hoped to benefit from a change of ruler . |
| 2 | We 've had almost a minute of stoppage time and Leicester lead by that single David Speedy goal from what seems a long time ago now in the first half . |
| 3 | Being a replacement had become almost a way of life . |
| 4 | His voice had become almost a screech of anger and frustration . |
| 5 | But rumours of war were being sounded by 1539 and in 1542 there began almost a decade of fighting . |
| 6 | Some have been sighted more than thirty feet in length , cruising almost a kilometre above sea level . |
| 7 | It seems almost a pity to subject these lively fancies to the stern test of verisimilitude , but I feel constrained to point out three facts . |
| 8 | Thus provided with capital and having gained almost a decade of experience in the iron industry , he resolved to set up a similar ironworks with the assistance of his two elder sons , John and Archibald . |
| 9 | Altogether Russell had served almost a year in remand and been found Not Guilty on both of his charges . |
| 10 | This process , begun in 1946 with the acclaim for Great Expectations , reached its peak with the 1974 publication of Masterworks of the British Cinema , a book that included the script of Brief Encounter but zealously forbade its readers to praise the man who wrote it : ‘ Brief Encounter , indeed , constitutes almost a declaration of independence on Lean 's part from his fruitful but by 1945 no doubt increasingly constricting association with Coward 's writing . ’ |
| 11 | There , in a wooded dell called Holford Glen , close to the village church , they found an almost inaccessible waterfall which interrupted the Holford brook on its journey to the sea , and which , for them as for Coleridge , quickly became almost a voice of nature , an abiding , animated presence at the heart of their Quantock lives . |
| 12 | Reasoning that the very nature of Doctor Who would mean scenes at the beginning and end of serials where only the regular cast were involved , this element became almost a prerequisite to production . |
| 13 | The early plywoods were glued with vegetable or blood glues and , having virtually no moisture resistance , the word became almost a term of abuse . |
| 14 | In the swing between extremes , it can seem almost a matter of chance whether a man bursts out in self-reproach or in righteous indignation , in suicide or in murder . |
| 15 | This means that her reproductive tract will contain a mixture of sperm from several sources and it becomes almost a matter of chance as to which particular male 's sperm fertilizes each of her shed eggs . |
| 16 | An initial theory is that the baobabs contracted a fungal disease after rains earlier this year ended almost a decade of drought . |
| 17 | Reminiscing recently with his old friend Jimmy Scullion , the father of World champion Andy Scullion , the two men have almost a century of drumming knowledge between them . |
| 18 | Many children and even staff have almost a phobia about school toilets and try to avoid using them if at all possible . |