Example sentences of "almost a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His voice had become almost a screech of anger and frustration . |
| 2 | Reasoning that the very nature of Doctor Who would mean scenes at the beginning and end of serials where only the regular cast were involved , this element became almost a prerequisite to production . |
| 3 | To defuse what is almost a state of lawlessness , the Interior Ministry has ordered the abolition of the workers ' militia in factories . |
| 4 | It was almost a rerun of experience in Germany and Austria . |
| 5 | Almost a tree in fact . |
| 6 | THE scene was a Tory idyll , almost a caricature of Home Counties Britishness . |
| 7 | Duckham is a much more hapless figure : rather a constrained Everyman , almost a bore in fact . |
| 8 | In the E , areas with scattered trees and bushes , from palm groves and oases to villages and towns ; in the W , as a very recent colonist , mainly since 1950 , almost a commensal of man , especially in towns and villages , and where grain is fed to other birds . |
| 9 | His statement is almost a classic of philistinism . |
| 10 | Almost a case of history repeating itself , Episode Three ( 'Conspiracy' ) went out on air later than scheduled due to the death of a world-renowned statesman — in this case thanks to the lengthy coverage given to the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill on 30 January 1965 . |
| 11 | They could sense a difference in the days now , sometimes there was almost a rime of frost on the shady side of the woods , and the old pony 's cost was thickening ; in the mornings they went off to school . |
| 12 | Her use of the plural was almost a kind of challenge . |
| 13 | Many people 's experience of parents ' evenings seems to be unsatisfactory with parents attending through almost a sense of obligation and duty rather than that of pleasure . |
| 14 | Anybody who swears allegiance to United must share the same sense of dismay at what has happened , and what is still going on — for me , it 's almost a sense of revulsion . |
| 15 | Almost a sense of loss ; a tiny death . |
| 16 | Reminiscing recently with his old friend Jimmy Scullion , the father of World champion Andy Scullion , the two men have almost a century of drumming knowledge between them . |
| 17 | For example , it is almost a requirement for publication in some academic journals that diagrams ( and high-quality diagrams at that ) be included ; in other disciplines , diagrams are simply unacceptable . |
| 18 | Almost a quarter of road accidents happen in the middle of the afternoon and experts are warning that just one drink at lunchtime can make you fall asleep at the wheel . |
| 19 | The report shows that almost a quarter of land protected as Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) , home to much of the country 's wildlife , are suffering acidification damage . |
| 20 | An initial theory is that the baobabs contracted a fungal disease after rains earlier this year ended almost a decade of drought . |
| 21 | Thus provided with capital and having gained almost a decade of experience in the iron industry , he resolved to set up a similar ironworks with the assistance of his two elder sons , John and Archibald . |
| 22 | But rumours of war were being sounded by 1539 and in 1542 there began almost a decade of fighting . |
| 23 | At the time relations between the two countries had only just been normalized [ see p. 36631 ] after almost a decade of tension . |
| 24 | JOHN CALE , avant-garde elder statesman and Velvet Underground founder member , whose live panto , guitar and vocals album ‘ Fragments Of A Rain Season ’ is out now on Hannibal Records , plays in his native Wales for the first time in almost a decade as part of his autumn tour , visiting . |
| 25 | His life of action is surely contrasted with the contemplative life of the shepherd and poet , who realize that Man 's past and present state ( 'what we are , and have been' ) is doomed , because it is based upon cruelty and the confining of imagination — surely this is the Cup of Stone , almost a Cap of Stone , laid upon ‘ the living well ’ . |
| 26 | There is almost a tinge of predestination in footballers ' reflections on how they came to sport in the first place . |
| 27 | Being a replacement had become almost a way of life . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Form-filling is almost a way of life in these former Soviet republics and Walker , not surprisingly , recommended a streamlining of this practice . |
| 30 | By contrast , the pursuit of grievances through the legal route had traditionally been almost a way of life in RENFE . |