Example sentences of "[noun sg] was almost [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ursula 's interruption was almost a scream . |
| 2 | The decision to contest the election was taken against McGonagle 's advice , but the percentage result was almost a re-run of 1962 , with 7,825 votes for McAteer and 4,371 for Quinn , a percentage of 35.8 for Independent Labour . |
| 3 | The first attempt was almost a disaster , but he got the plane up again and came round for a second shot . |
| 4 | Her use of the plural was almost a kind of challenge . |
| 5 | By the time the decade ended self-indulgence was almost the orthodoxy ; the fulfilment of economic wants without delay was a virtue . |
| 6 | This act was almost the downfall of Will Darrel . |
| 7 | It meant that the keynote had to be informality and so the idea of a planned suburbia was almost a contradiction in terms . |
| 8 | Each landing was almost an inch deep in cartridge cases across which the thin track of dried blood still passed . |
| 9 | Barton had clinched the world title — his subsequent victory in the Billabong was almost a formality . |
| 10 | The house next to Mrs. Sutton 's was of about the same age but as the pavement was almost a foot higher than the floor of the front room , it had two steps down inside the door . |
| 11 | Once the initial surge of grief had passed the funeral was almost a celebration . |
| 12 | Her smile was almost a grimace . |
| 13 | Culley 's smile was almost a grimace . |
| 14 | The acting was almost a by-product of that and had it not been for a fortuitous advertisement in Cardiff 's Western Mail , it might have remained just that . |
| 15 | Another free kick was almost a repeat of the Wimbledon one , only approx 4 inches wide . |
| 16 | As my transsexual obsession deepened I was prone to bouts of morbid depression and I spent a great deal of time thinking about suicide ; suicide was almost a twin obsession at times . |
| 17 | Monarchy was almost the rule in Europe , which had many republicans , but few republics . |
| 18 | For many years her life was almost a caricature of the daily round of the Victorian upper-class spinster . |
| 19 | The return journey was almost a mirror image of the outward one . |
| 20 | Ella 's voice was almost a wail . |
| 21 | Kelly 's voice was almost a whisper . |
| 22 | His voice was almost a growl . |
| 23 | It seems likely that both the concern of political parties and of the public at the activities of the BUF was totally out of all proportion to its importance and to the political challenge which it presented ; as John Stevenson and Chris Cook wrote ‘ British fascism was almost a non-starter ’ . |
| 24 | He more than once declared that , compared with schoolmastering , work at the bank was almost a rest cure . |
| 25 | His breathing was almost the panting of a hunting dog . |
| 26 | I struggled back into equilibrium and tried to ride the pulverising waves of misery and found to my desperate dismay that the finger of arrow in front was almost an inch longer . |
| 27 | Public awareness of its advantages and more importantly its acceptance as a safe process will promote its use as a common place preservation process as pasteurisation was almost a century ago . |
| 28 | This is significant because , in effect , it added an extra week to the pre-Christmas trading period — the last Saturday before Christmas was almost a week before Christmas itself . |