Example sentences of "[v-ing] almost [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the albums was compiled for the Wittgenstein family , documenting almost a decade of nomadic princely travel from house to house . |
| 2 | The sound of the water had become muted ; like background music , it receded from consciousness , becoming almost a part of the stillness and the silence . |
| 3 | The posolskii prikaz ( department of embassies ) , founded in 1549 , had by the end of the sixteenth century become a substantial organisation employing almost a score of clerks . |
| 4 | Since Ms Aloni took over the education ministry , she has succeeded in needlessly provoking almost every segment of the population . |
| 5 | Writing almost a century after Kingston , he fulfilled the expectations of his readers with less melodrama in his plots and a more responsible attitude to life in his young hero , but Quinn is a very obvious descendant of Marryat 's Peter Simple and Kingston 's Jack Rogers in his lively opportunism and his youthful capacity for living in the present . |
| 6 | The original windows had been replaced by two long windows occupying almost the whole of the end wall . |
| 7 | Because they are offered in ranges containing almost every nuance of colour and tone they are also useful for visualising ideas in considerable detail . |
| 8 | The government of the Virgin Islands was accused of mismanagement and having almost no control over the activities of DC personnel working on the project . |
| 9 | Some have been sighted more than thirty feet in length , cruising almost a kilometre above sea level . |
| 10 | By contrast , the Soviet Union had become the world 's biggest importer , taking almost a quarter of all internationally traded grain , a third of it from the United States . |
| 11 | Willis dealt with her admirably by taking almost no notice of what she said . |
| 12 | Of course , people do act out of character — but not often in a matter involving almost the whole of a man 's private fortune . |
| 13 | And all four say they will be out canvassing almost every night in an attempt to woo the waverers among Darlington 's 66,885 electorate . |
| 14 | In her self-portrait Leapor is intent on flouting almost every aspect of contemporary standards of beauty . |
| 15 | It must surely be apparent that , with death visiting almost every family with such regularity , any attempt to mask or evade the reality of death could not have succeeded , and would probably have made the situation worse . |
| 16 | It was , in a way , rather restful to have a series of instructions covering almost every area of one 's life . |
| 17 | ‘ I was expanding my business interests and working almost every hour of the day . |