Example sentences of "amount almost to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The confidence of this self-knowledge sounded a note of cockiness , amounting almost to elation , as he remarked over his shoulder : ‘ It 's tricky enough here . |
| 2 | He was shaken , almost physically , by an emotion far stronger than distaste and one of which he was half-ashamed ; it seemed to him both ignoble and in itself hardly more rational than the event itself What he was feeling was a revulsion amounting almost to outrage . |
| 3 | Yet , whenever she contemplated a resumption of the life she had enjoyed before her initial meeting with Johnny , she felt a rising panic and a disinclination amounting almost to hostility at the very idea . |
| 4 | On the way this time it rained , but despite his dragging cloak and the glum faces of the small train he took with him , Nicholas made the journey in a condition of numbness that amounted almost to happiness . |
| 5 | Eleanor 's devotion to her husband amounted almost to veneration . |