Example sentences of "with almost [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The physical world , seemingly solid to our senses , when reduced to its ultimate is mostly ‘ emptiness ’ or etheric spaces with almost innumerable particles of negative or positive electricity mutually acting or interacting , producing all the existing material phenomena and holding them in a more or less organised state . |
| 2 | Despite being launched six months or so ago in the US , with almost singular lack of impact , this part of the package has been accepted internally as a program integrator by no less an august institution than IBM itself . |
| 3 | The portrait is hyper-real , with almost obsessive attention to surface , to clothing . |
| 4 | We are still dealing with almost negligible figures in geological terms and certainly of the same order as the Synchronous/diachronous deposits such as the " Urgonian " limestones discussed in chapter 1 . |
| 5 | This district , with its decaying tenements , its cobbled streets shattered and stinking , the pervasive odour of massed humanity , and their filth , reminded him with almost terrifying clarity of the wharves where he had grown up . |
| 6 | It looked as though the repressive policy of James V had died with him , and that Scotland , presided over by Arran and the powerful Hamilton faction , was now moving with almost unbelievable ease towards alliance with England and some measure of Protestant reform . |
| 7 | When compared with PtpropCl 2 , 4 , the complex 5 shows additional blockages at 25 and 27 for the UV5 promoter and 75 , 77 , 88 , 102 , 108 and 116 for the N25 promoter with almost total loss of the UV5 blockage at 93 . |
| 8 | ‘ This is different , ’ Lindsey laughingly dismissed his protest , weaving her way with almost childlike excitement between rows of fruit and vegetables and racks of brightly coloured sundresses , sandals and locally made lace . |
| 9 | This position changed with almost revolutionary speed during the first two decades of the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | And now for some purpose of his own he shook her off , and with almost insulting lack of finesse . |
| 11 | In order to do this , Jerry Falwell and the other Baptist pastors in the movement have to operate with almost watertight compartments for , on the one hand , their religion ( in this box Catholics and Jews are doomed sinners ) , and on the other , their politics ( we are all part of a shared Judeo-Christian tradition ) . |
| 12 | Numerous witnesses for the prosecution followed each other with almost boring repetition into the box . |
| 13 | He saw himself with almost missionary zeal as a recorder of his surroundings , so as to preserve a record of the remnants of antiquated rusticity which he remembered . |
| 14 | Just a brief run , enough to draw part of the defence towards the spot , and over it went with almost amazing accuracy to the other side of the field . |
| 15 | Behind them , she envisaged the faces of the Committee for the Preservation of Morals , as she had last seen them , glistening with almost sadistic anticipation of the crushing of the young author and of giving Mr Pascall and the cigar-store merchants their proper comeuppances . |
| 16 | And he had tried to be helpful about the blotter , staring at it with almost painful intensity before saying that he thought that the black markings had n't been there when he had last seen the blotter on Monday evening . |
| 17 | He is credited with almost miraculous powers of healing . |
| 18 | She refers with almost elegiac despondency to the once vast collections of eighteenth-century Polish aristocrats . |