Example sentences of "almost at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Differentiation ( Fig. 50 ) is readily made between the two on gross examination or with a hand lens , when the cervical alae of T. cati are seen to have an arrow-head form , with the posterior margins almost at a right angle to the body , whereas those of Toxascaris taper gradually into the body . |
| 2 | Is it not surprising that after several years of unremitting devolutionist propaganda from the Scottish Constitutional Convention , support for devolution is almost at an all-time low , according to the opinion polls ? |
| 3 | Still walking east , the party were aware that they were almost at the front line and had to proceed with caution . |
| 4 | By the time Maisie and he got clear of the crowd , Aziz and Hasan were almost at the other side of the Common . |
| 5 | Lying almost at the outer edge of the village , a couple of hundred yards off the highway , Guruji 's domain is isolated from the rest of the village and has an aura of self-sufficiency . |
| 6 | She was almost at the first port of call — one of Luke 's list . |
| 7 | It begins with a single central fact , the murder ; it broadens out as suspect after suspect comes into play ; then almost at the last moment it narrows abruptly down to another single fact , the murderer . |
| 8 | Both cancelled plans to join the annual procession almost at the last moment . |
| 9 | Almost at the same instant , they sprang apart , ragged in breath , staring , each at each , dim faces in the gloom . |
| 10 | Sitting on the tall range , its small legs sticking out over the bright brass rail which acted both as a safety barrier round the hotplates and as a place to hang grubby kitchen towels , the small attendant 's face was almost at the same level as the human 's . |
| 11 | Almost at the same time as the redcaps get back , so do the infantry from the Queens . |
| 12 | Almost at the same time D. P. McKenzie of Cambridge and R. L. Parker of the Scripps Institution in America had come to much the same conclusions as Wilson and together these scientists were responsible for what they called the ‘ New Global Tectonics ’ . |
| 13 | Almost at the same time a loud-voiced and unpopular Dominican priest made an outspoken attack against all mathematicians and Galileo supporters . |
| 14 | Almost at the same time William Russell , a painter and coffin-maker , opened his London shop ; far more ingenious than Boyce , Russell entered into an agreement with the College of Arms in 1689 whereby , for a fee , its members would attend certain funerals which he had arranged . |
| 15 | The Munn Report examined the structure of the curriculum in the last two years of compulsory schooling in Scotland , and carried out its work almost at the same time as the Dunning Committee considered the aims , purposes and forms of assessment for the whole ability range . |
| 16 | The most surprising observation is that the spring bloom occurred almost at the same time in the Tromsø area and at Spitzbergen , approximately 10° further north . |
| 17 | ‘ Come and get warm , ’ said David almost at the same time as Anthony was saying : |
| 18 | Almost at the same time there was an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the sale of Rover to British Aerospace . |
| 19 | Almost at the same moment that Mary saw and recognised the car , the men in it saw and recognised her ! |
| 20 | And almost at the same moment she remembered why the name ‘ Luke Hunter ’ was so familiar . |
| 21 | Almost at the same moment an English observer put it more succinctly : " Foreign service may sometimes provide a good stirrup but never a good saddle " . |
| 22 | Almost at the same moment Paige heard it too . |
| 23 | She liked Min and Jo and so she walked past the newsagents smiling , without noticing until she was almost at the next newsagents , which ran out of her newspaper by ten in the morning . |
| 24 | She recalled Alain Gebrec 's warning that the edge was unstable in places ; panic threatened to take over ; she was on the point of abandoning the whole insane exercise when , almost at the very edge of the cliff , she spotted something that gleamed in the sun . |