Example sentences of "[pos pn] almost [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The snow was falling steadily and it was bitterly cold as I covered my bagpipes and rubbed my almost frozen fingers in an attempt to keep the circulation going . |
| 2 | When I tell you that the solo and instrumental contribution hardly lags behind in any of these respects , you will no doubt become aware of my almost boundless enthusiasm for this issue . |
| 3 | I always get a thrill out of sharing my vast experience , and my almost intuitive understanding of the readers ' real needs . |
| 4 | The risk of confronting the disease may be the possible death of the sufferer ; the risk of not doing so may be his or her almost certain death from the progression of the disease . |
| 5 | The two divers , Chief Petty Officer Carrington and Petty Officer Grant , were curiously alike , both aged about thirty , of medium height and compact build : both were much given to smiling , a cheerfulness that in no way detracted from their almost daunting aura of competence . |
| 6 | Gould was enthralled by the spirit and customs of the Aborigines , and above all their almost religious respect for nature and its creatures . |
| 7 | He recorded the simple lifestyle of the islanders , and described their legendary prowess as cragsmen , imposed no doubt by their almost total dependence upon sea-birds for food . |
| 8 | An excellent seam of Dutchmen was worked , " these were all Dutch naval pilots and navigators , not particularly experienced but the lack of hours was more than compensated for by their almost embarrassing zest for flying . |
| 9 | Despite their almost identical chorus of ‘ Pah ! |
| 10 | Lastly , the opponents of drainage schemes have long complained about the secrecy with which the Ministry of Agriculture and the water authorities have shrouded their calculations , together with their almost universal resistance to public inquiries , which are now a normal part of the process of consultation preceding road and reservoir schemes . |
| 11 | The scope for graft latent in many Asian societies was aggravated in Indo-China by the dependence of French police officers , in their almost universal ignorance of the native languages , upon the inquiries and operations of a class of Indian , Chinese , Eurasian , and other non-native informers whose venality became a byword . |
| 12 | Then the landscapes at La Rue-des Bois which are influenced by Cézanne are still related in many ways to Picasso 's more ‘ primitive ’ or ‘ Negroid ’ work ; indeed , this series of paintings begun in La Rue-des-Bois is contemporary with other canvases which represent only a continuation of his earlier work ; some of the simplest of the La Rue-des-Bois landscapes , with their almost naive interpretation of houses and trees , remind one strongly of the art of the Douanier Rousseau . |
| 13 | We could only dispose of this debris in the raging Shyok and hope that it would eventually be carried , via the Indus , to the northern frontiers of Pakistan — a region I well remember for its almost total lack of any suitable fuel container ! |
| 14 | And such observations bring out one of the most arresting features of hypochondria : its almost total independence from any real diseases from which the hypochondriac suffers . |
| 15 | But the politicians have also seen research in the arts , social and natural sciences , as a vital part of national development : the government has been a generous sponsor of research , partly to underpin West Germany 's thriving high technology industries , and partly to continue rebuilding intellectual life after its almost total dissolution in the 1930s . |
| 16 | Third and more important , the most outstanding fact about Marxism in the modern world is its almost total failure in economic and political terms . |
| 17 | By the middle decades of the century the " old diplomacy " as it had evolved over the last three hundred years , with its easy-going and cosmopolitan atmosphere , its often short hours of work , its extensive use of unpaid or inadequately paid diplomats , its almost complete immunity from effective public scrutiny , was under increasing pressure . |
| 18 | The daring magnitude of this conception has since been obscured by its almost routine enactment in a series of African countries in the 1960s , but it should never be forgotten that India was the test case , and that at the time success in the execution of such a plan seemed far from assured : only a year before Mountbatten 's appointment the then viceroy , Lord Wavell , had been pressing on the Cabinet his ‘ Breakdown Plan ’ , which consisted simply of the phased evacuation of the British from India without any serious attempt to ensure that a viable , much less friendly , government was installed in their place . |
| 19 | Its almost miraculous effectiveness in controlling and reversing an otherwise lethal bacterial infection in mice was demonstrated in Oxford in the 1940s . |
| 20 | Umberto Eco 's magisterial novel The Name of the Rose ( 1983 ) , for example , plays on the dialectic between the reader 's curiosity about the medieval world and his/her almost total ignorance of it ( funnelled , as Eco explains in his Reflections on the novel , through the observations of the novice Adso ( Eco 1985 : 33–4 ) ; between the sense that the historical world ( the abbey and the cultural and religious context of the time ) is a world of its own and the sense that it is connected to the world of the reader . |
| 21 | But wait a minute , Bob , someone said as he was giving his almost daily diatribe against the law change in South Africa . |
| 22 | Also in January 1950 , Sukarno paid a state visit to India which was returned by Nehru in June : in a typically ruminative speech ( so different from Sukarno 's declamatory style ) Nehru told his audience , Politicians are accustomed to making this kind of speech on a foreign tour , but we may believe that Nehru , with his almost mystical sense of Asian-ness , meant every word . |
| 23 | Not a regimented style like some other publishers ’ , but qualities that are hallmarks of a Conran Octopus book : our high standards of editorial , design and production , and our almost religious dedication to being the best . ’ |
| 24 | It is unlikely , of course , that a tiger actually thinks , as humans might — with our almost non-existent sense of smell — ‘ Which way is the wind blowing ? ’ |