Example sentences of "[vb past] 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 | But rumours of war were being sounded by 1539 and in 1542 there began almost a decade of fighting . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The early plywoods were glued with vegetable or blood glues and , having virtually no moisture resistance , the word became almost a term of abuse . |
| 6 | An initial theory is that the baobabs contracted a fungal disease after rains earlier this year ended almost a decade of drought . |