Example sentences of "almost [art] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hasan was almost the only person to whom he spoke . |
| 2 | The evidence relating to her father is almost the only approach to much of Mary Leapor 's life , certainly to the first ten years . |
| 3 | George , who was eight years old when Coleridge was born , became almost a second father to him in the difficult years ahead , and was , Coleridge wrote , ‘ every way nearer to Perfection than any man I ever yet knew — indeed , he is worth the whole family in a Lump . ’ |
| 4 | Soon after midday Tom Poole and his brother Richard decided to take their interesting visitors on a short walk to the farmhouse called Marshmills in Over Stowey , home of a large tribe of Poole cousins who were almost a second family to Tom and Richard : among them were Penelope Poole , ‘ a beautiful , dark-eyed girl ’ who would never return Tom Poole 's love for her ( he died unmarried ) , and John Poole , an Oxford fellow and later the rector of Enmore , who was Tom Poole 's friend and companion from childhood . |
| 5 | The picture becomes almost a real person to the boy , replacing his dead grandmother and helping him to carry on when circumstances seem to be against him . |
| 6 | Geneva began to seem almost a familiar place to me , with its thriving waterfront , grand avenue , narrow streets , and busy horse traffic . |
| 7 | It is as if Hahnemann takes it for granted that we all understand the importance of quantity , as well as potency , when administering a remedy , but this seems almost a revolutionary concept to us as we rarely consider this factor when using both low and high potency centesimal remedies . |
| 8 | A buzzard 's feathers have almost a glossy look to them , and they 're more than one shade of brown . |
| 9 | It gives a strange luminosity to the hills , especially under a dark sky , adding almost a lunar atmosphere to the landscapes . |
| 10 | Each one of the following would in itself be almost an insuperable barrier to having the real issues of the case examined . |