Example sentences of "be almost a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the problem of trespass from neighbouring urban areas can be almost a way of life for some harassed farmers with continual problems of damaged or stolen crops , dumped rubbish , damage to fences , gates and farm buildings and machinery and the worrying of livestock . |
| 2 | Sid James had n't made a picture since the one that was without the Williams credit , Cabby , but he was soon to be almost a fixture on the set , playing parts as stereotyped as Ken 's . |
| 3 | It seems to be almost a perception of physics as an ‘ arts ’ subject ; indeed , Jane told me that she had been equally good at arts and sciences but had chosen sciences because of the job and university prospects . |
| 4 | That Ross — so handsome , so much older and more experienced than she was — should be interested in her , had seemed to be almost a miracle beyond belief . |
| 5 | Among the acquisitions completed in 1990 are almost a mile of coast at Penparc Farm in Dyfed and a further three-quarters of a mile at Horden , County Durham . |
| 6 | Press interviews with the rugger-buggers are almost a contradiction in terms — even the official , collective , post-match post-mortems after home internationals , down in the bowels of Twickenham or Cardiff , say . |
| 7 | Press interviews with the rugger-buggers are almost a contradiction in terms — even the official , collective , post-match post-mortems after home internationals , down in the bowels of Twickenham or Cardiff , say . |
| 8 | but , I ca n't see him authorising bank holiday workings and so bank holiday exhibitions are almost a thing of the past . |
| 9 | ( David Rockefellers older brother Nelson , who had recently died , had been almost a friend of the Shah ) Would either of them fly to Morocco and tell the Shah that the US government preferred that he did not come to America right now ? |
| 10 | By contrast , the pursuit of grievances through the legal route had traditionally been almost a way of life in RENFE . |
| 11 | Receiving the Order of Lenin from Gorbachev 's men must have been almost a humiliation for Ceauşescu on his seventieth birthday in 1988 . |
| 12 | Until now Sarajevo airport has been almost a haven from the gunfire . |
| 13 | There has been almost a hush about tonight 's event . |
| 14 | Mr. Farr 's garden was on the right hand side at the end of the footpath and must have been almost an acre in extent . |
| 15 | Where until two years ago , the scattering of currants near the door was eagerly awaited by a clamouring mix of blackbirds , starling , robins and a songthrush or two , lately there has been almost an indifference to the largesse . |
| 16 | 25 years ago there were almost a quarter of a million dairy farmers in England and Wales . |
| 17 | Its working methods were almost a caricature of those prevailing in high political bodies in Moscow . |
| 18 | Now we were almost a mile from shore . |
| 19 | His reason is that he can not be sure of what code of manners were followed there and if they were not the same as his it would seem as if he were almost a bully in chasing down someone below his class . |
| 20 | However , she allowed him to squire her to the desk , without comment and with a straight face , told him the number of her key , though keys were almost an affectation at ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ , more for ornament than use , and let him take it down for her and escort her to the foot of the oak staircase , which wound in slightly drunken lurches about a narrow well , the polished treads hollowed by centuries of use . |
| 21 | Such aspects of Fascist economics were almost an anticipation of Labour government policy in the crises which followed the Second World War . |
| 22 | There is almost a tradition of taking the family to the links , and introducing off-spring to the ancient game , as my own father did with me ; very akin to the Scottish fishing tradition . |
| 23 | Some were the direct result of campaigning by the Railway Development Society and the list is almost a tribute to it . |
| 24 | ‘ There is almost a foot of it out there , ’ Guillamon told him , his blue eyes like ice . |
| 25 | His statement is almost a classic of philistinism . |
| 26 | Now I would say to sa say that that is almost a bit like the story of the boy crying that he did n't have many holidays because he did n't go to school and that because Harrogate 's er unemployment is so low or has been historically so low compared with other areas , a relatively small increase in the number of unemployment has an enormous increase as compared with what it 's been in the past and so the same number of people living in Harrogate who lose their jobs has an impact on the unemployment figures as perceived locally greater than a similar number of people losing their jobs in Leeds or Selby or somewhere else , and so I think to some extent this the rhetoric has outrun the reality on that point . |
| 27 | Form-filling is almost a way of life in these former Soviet republics and Walker , not surprisingly , recommended a streamlining of this practice . |
| 28 | He says ; The set is almost a recollection of Fairport 's career . |
| 29 | To defuse what is almost a state of lawlessness , the Interior Ministry has ordered the abolition of the workers ' militia in factories . |
| 30 | Wild thing : pricey at £17 , but this hand-painted mug from Honiton Pottery is almost a work of art . |