Example sentences of "almost to the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in France the infamous Festum Asinorum — the Ass ' Feast — during which a live ass was present at the Mass and the congregation brayed like the animal , survived almost to the Reformation despite efforts to stamp it out . |
| 2 | We had to walk right down almost to the sea at its low-tide limit before we could get across . |
| 3 | In the hit movie Withnall and I , the two visit Riggindale and it drives them almost to the brink of distraction . |
| 4 | Nehru was also hounded by part of the press led by the Daily Express , almost to the day of his death . |
| 5 | Compared with the other blastoids in this book the food grooves are very long , extending almost to the base of the animal , and occupying much of its surface area . |
| 6 | This family is characterised by a large disk often covered with granules , spinelets or sometimes with thickened skin ; the bar shaped radial shields extending almost to the middle of the disk ; the papillae on the jaw usually spine like ; the arms may be branched or simple , covered with granules and distally with bands of minute hooks . |
| 7 | The radial shields are long and bar-like reaching almost to the middle of the disk . |
| 8 | In Millett , Daly and Frye , women are seen primarily as victims : the monolithic brutality and psychological pressures of male power have reduced women almost to the state of being ‘ non-persons ’ . |
| 9 | She walked almost to the edge of the cliff , where the road made a sharp left . |
| 10 | Access by car is easy now , down a forestry road , almost to the edge of the loch . |
| 11 | And when it sprayed sparks almost to the edge of the wide hearth he made no comment , such as , ‘ Be careful . |
| 12 | By the 1820s Brighton had sprawled along several miles of cliff top , almost to the edge of its parish boundaries . |
| 13 | Coconuts grew almost to the edge of the silver strip of coral beach , which sparkled in the hot sun . |
| 14 | I walked almost to the edge of the forest , then I heard the voice . |
| 15 | I had the advantage of seeing him first , eagerly scanning the carriages , and I observed that he was bronzed almost to the colour of teak . |
| 16 | He reviewed the authorities on the subject ( which went back almost to the turn of the century ) . |
| 17 | The Eston Hills , a priceless piece of rugged countryside penetrating almost to the heart of Teesside , have thus been raped and defiled . |
| 18 | These are continued upwards almost to the top of the canvas so that the eye is allowed no escape beyond them . |
| 19 | Fill the pot almost to the top with compost . |
| 20 | Fill the rest of the tray almost to the top with potting compost . |
| 21 | East Prussia , jutting out from the River Vistula almost to the centre of the River Niemen , was penned between the Baltic Sea and the northern frontier of Russian Poland and so could be attacked from either , or both , east and south . |
| 22 | The radial shields are long , bar shaped reaching almost to the centre of the disk . |
| 23 | Asteronyx loveni can be distinguished by the skin covered disk ; the bar shaped radial shields which reach almost to the centre of the disk ; the blunt mouth papillae ; the 8 to 9 arm spines on the arm and the well developed club shaped arm spine on the longer arms . |
| 24 | Her name was linked to the goddess Diana , and her qualities praised almost to the level of the Virgin Mary , whose glories she was meant to replace in newly Protestant England . |
| 25 | Almost to the end of the nineteenth century , even educated men made no distinction between the merciful hand of God and the merciless grasp of death . |
| 26 | THE RT REV CHARLES Renfrew , who has died aged 62 , maintained an active ministry almost to the end of his life , despite being a kidney dialysis patient . |
| 27 | It was motivated in large part by the desire to rid Japan of the unequal treaties , which remained the arbiter of Japanese diplomatic activity almost to the end of the century . |
| 28 | The importance in many parts of his dominions of institutions intermediate between ruler and subject he underestimated grossly almost to the end of his reign . |
| 29 | In Vienna , almost to the end of his long reign , Francis Joseph could have very real control . |
| 30 | Right at the outset , perhaps we can read a verse from one Timo , er two Timothy , chapter one and verse twelve and Paul says there , he 's come almost to the end of his life , he 's , he will shortly be , taken out and will be executed and he says , for this reason I also suffer these things . |