Example sentences of "[be] almost a [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the problem of trespass from neighbouring urban areas can be almost a way of life for some harassed farmers with continual problems of damaged or stolen crops , dumped rubbish , damage to fences , gates and farm buildings and machinery and the worrying of livestock . |
| 2 | It seems to be almost a perception of physics as an ‘ arts ’ subject ; indeed , Jane told me that she had been equally good at arts and sciences but had chosen sciences because of the job and university prospects . |
| 3 | Among the acquisitions completed in 1990 are almost a mile of coast at Penparc Farm in Dyfed and a further three-quarters of a mile at Horden , County Durham . |
| 4 | By contrast , the pursuit of grievances through the legal route had traditionally been almost a way of life in RENFE . |
| 5 | His statement is almost a classic of philistinism . |
| 6 | Form-filling is almost a way of life in these former Soviet republics and Walker , not surprisingly , recommended a streamlining of this practice . |
| 7 | To defuse what is almost a state of lawlessness , the Interior Ministry has ordered the abolition of the workers ' militia in factories . |
| 8 | Wild thing : pricey at £17 , but this hand-painted mug from Honiton Pottery is almost a work of art . |
| 9 | There is almost a tinge of predestination in footballers ' reflections on how they came to sport in the first place . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | So it is almost a matter of philotimo , honour , that even in the relatively affluent Greece of recent years nobody who can possibly fiddle his taxes has failed to do so . |
| 12 | Occasion is almost a synonym of cause in many contexts : ( 168 ) She asked Mathilda what occasioned Manfred to take Theodore for a spectre . |
| 13 | In fact , I would go so far as to say that there is almost a feeling of relief here that Clause 28 is associated with someone so widely discredited . |
| 14 | 3.7 The expression " pain and suffering " is almost a term of art in so far as the expression embraces different concepts . |
| 15 | Small is beautiful is almost an article of faith in Britain . |
| 16 | Anybody who swears allegiance to United must share the same sense of dismay at what has happened , and what is still going on — for me , it 's almost a sense of revulsion . |
| 17 | It 's something more than a Crucifixion ; it 's almost a piece of slaughter , butchery ; meat and flesh . |
| 18 | They could sense a difference in the days now , sometimes there was almost a rime of frost on the shady side of the woods , and the old pony 's cost was thickening ; in the mornings they went off to school . |
| 19 | It was almost a rerun of experience in Germany and Austria . |
| 20 | Her use of the plural was almost a kind of challenge . |
| 21 | She seemed to be staring back at him with a smile that was almost a grimace of pain yet somehow full of mockery . |
| 22 | With a sigh that was almost a gurgle of gratification , she found the slippery spread . |
| 23 | I found fourteen wounded men waiting the doctor 's care in the gun-room , which was almost a pool of blood . |
| 24 | It was almost a wail of anguish . |
| 25 | There was almost a note of relief in their voices . |
| 26 | There was almost a note of amusement in his voice now . |
| 27 | It was almost a cry of protest . |
| 28 | ‘ No ! ’ said Harry , startled and stung into what was almost a cry of pain . |