Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [coord] almost [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The extent of the childlike and almost filial loyalty felt by the ordinary man everywhere towards his ruler , the great fund of emotion of this sort upon which a monarch could still draw , are clearly seen in France in the crisis of 1789 . |
| 2 | The simple and almost revolutionary message of Francis had the fortune to reach the ears and attention of a pope of spiritual vision who , while not able to fill that role himself , recognized the strength and power that might be harnessed to both the papal curia and the Church as a whole . |
| 3 | Earnings per share was traditionally the prime and almost exclusive measure of performance . |
| 4 | It explored the meanings of ‘ independence ’ and confronted the argument that the Council was itself a myth and the reality was the powerful and almost autonomous subject boards . |
| 5 | Each must decide as he pleases , according to whether his temperament urges him to prefer the prolific , radiant , almost jovial abundance of Rubens ; the mild dignity and eurhythmic order of Raphael ; the paradisal — one might almost say the afternoon colour of Veronese ; the austere and strained severity of David ; or the dramatic and almost literary rhetoric of Lebrun . |
| 6 | We never did persuade them , but for six valuable hours we managed to hold them on that course far out into the Flores Sea , until finally they came to their senses , noticed the distant and almost invisible shore , and hurriedly tacked towards it again . |
| 7 | The round or almost oval rootstock or corm produces a plant with narrow , long , almost arrow-shaped leaves , which are green or greenish-red on the upper surface and dull green on the undersides . |
| 8 | But the hostilities also included the spectacular and almost unique victory of a Scottish army over an English one , at Bannockburn in 1314 . |
| 9 | He pointed out to me the ‘ Thief 's Corrie ’ — a dismal place only accessible at one point - that point the apex of a rocky and almost perpendicular water-course ; he said one man could hold the pass against five hundred , and I inclined to agree with him . |
| 10 | 3.13 The best way to form a view on the current level of damages for pain and suffering simpliciter is to study recent awards for minor injuries , where there has been a complete or almost complete recovery . |
| 11 | Having raised his standard at the very nadir of France 's fortunes , when to do so seemed a hopeless and almost irrational gesture , he claimed the high ground of principle for himself . |
| 12 | The first is that of many Catholics who already thought the Council a strange and almost unnecessary development . |
| 13 | The question had a strange and almost forlorn appeal . |
| 14 | In addition to single blooms , there are several semi-double and double kinds that open wide and full with a ‘ mop ’ of smaller curled petals at the centre , sometimes shading to a deeper colour at the base that suggests bi-colour , a different and almost foreign appearance . |
| 15 | The final shattering of the delusion did not take place until the 1940s ; but when it did occur , it prompted not the abandonment of the system of the delusion itself but a further and almost incredible elaboration of it . |
| 16 | After such endorsements from a man who , despite being a migrant from the Mid-West has been transformed instinctively into a prime example of Homo Pacificus , it would have been a foolish and almost unpatriotic American who professed otherwise . |
| 17 | In the uplands , where access is almost universally by car or coach trip , virtually all surveys point out that well over half of visitors never leave either their cars or the car park and that there is a marked and almost complete segregation of the active walker from the passive pursuits of picnicking and scenic viewing ( Haffey , 1979 ) . |
| 18 | The growing numbers of underemployed middle- or upper-class women , for whom unpaid charitable work was one of the very few socially acceptable occupations , supplied a willing and almost endless supply of volunteers for such activity , such as has been available at no other period of British history . |
| 19 | While on the part of the state there has been a continual and almost unlimited welcome for the mining multinationals , there has been an increasing sophistication in the response by communities confronted by them . |
| 20 | The problem here , as far as I can see , is not so much the definition of fictionality in itself , but the fact that such a definition is applied in a rigid and almost prescriptive fashion , with little consideration for the way in which texts are actually perceived in their own contexts of production and reception . |
| 21 | Its obvious injustice would entirely destroy all confidence in the integrity of Government , and any reliance professional men might be induced to give to official programmes in the future ; while its realisation would inflict a serious and almost irreparable injury on the dignity and integrity of a liberal profession . |
| 22 | Bonar Law was a startling choice for the party of the " Hotel Cecil " , for he was a self-made and almost self-educated businessman from the outlying parts of the Empire ( Scotland , Ulster and Canada provided his roots ) . |
| 23 | We did not therefore send off the telegram he had drafted to Molotov , more especially as he had received from Eden a cold and almost minatory minute just before the Cabinet began . |
| 24 | In part this occurs , I believe , because large organizations have a curious and almost inevitable tendency to centralize . |
| 25 | Throwing it open , he lifted out a sinewy and almost reptilian form , holding it aloft and going down the line of young men , offering it briefly to each in turn . |
| 26 | A growing and almost unreflective recognition of the diversity and unity within the Godhead led the New Testament writers to make the assertions which became the raw material for later Trinitarian orthodoxy . |
| 27 | But civil strife and political violence , the quick and easy expedients of the gun and the bomb , already had for him a romantic and almost Byronic aura . |
| 28 | Jenna left the meal to keep hot and went to freshen up , telling herself that she would consider it coldly and then decide , but in reality she was churned up inside , a desire to hide from this uppermost , but a deep-seated and almost morbid curiosity urging her to go to France and see the man who was nothing to her at all , not even a face to remember . |
| 29 | ‘ Among those interested in ( and the much larger number pontificating on ) the history and philosophy of science , I notice an increasing tendency to attribute changes and advances to a mysterious but almost omnipotent entity called ‘ social-and-economic-factors- . ’ |
| 30 | Islander was snug in her berth in Hythe Marina when we called on a dull and almost windless day shortly before Christmas last year . |