Example sentences of "almost [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have upgraded to MS-DOS 5 then you have a free bonus that it almost worth the cost of the upgrade on its own — QBasic . |
| 2 | Her parents were killed in an accident when she was very young , and she has been brought up at the château , almost as the daughter of the house . |
| 3 | We were almost past the entrance to the main hall when a woman 's voice called out : ‘ Signor Daunbey ! |
| 4 | He stopped almost opposite the hole by which they had come up , and Hazel joined him . |
| 5 | Going north along Corso Venezia you reach Palazzo Fontana-Silvestri standing almost opposite the entrance to the Semanario Arcivescovile . |
| 6 | In a recent incident a vehicle failed to stop at the junction and damaged Curwen House the building on Gubberford Lane almost opposite the end of Tithe Barn Lane . |
| 7 | It seems almost like the beginning of time when visitors to Welford Road first saw dear old Dusty tee up the ball , meticulously pace his couple of steps back and sideways , pause , take a deep breath , glance at the target and then , slick as clockwork , sidle up and caress the ball between the posts . |
| 8 | She paused and peered anxiously along the pathway , which made a dim corridor into the wood , almost like the aisle of a great church , thought Virginia . |
| 9 | And then , as the escalator carried him up into the main concourse of the station , they 'd have seen the spark returning almost like the glow of a neon tube being borne up into a powerful field of energy . |
| 10 | It was almost like the death of a pig rather than a human . |
| 11 | It 's almost like the ceremony of ordaining a bishop in fact if I 'd turned the wrong page we could have ended up with a bishop rather than an abbot you know |
| 12 | The sound of this newly created viola is a beautiful one , as you can hear almost throughout The Art of the Fugue , but above all in pieces such as the ‘ Canon alla Ottava ’ . |
| 13 | A united South Africa within the British Empire was the purpose for which , almost from the beginning of the Boer War , Lord Milner laboured and assembled the galaxy of British talent soon to be known as his kindergarten . |
| 14 | The chancery , or writing office , was in existence probably almost from the beginning of the papacy , certainly by the third century . |
| 15 | ‘ I felt as if I knew you , and you knew me — almost from the beginning of time . |
| 16 | They were standing in water that stretched almost from the mainland to the island . |
| 17 | At the outset he seems to have been on congenial terms with Palmerston , but their relationship went sour during Hall 's two-and-a-half years at the Office of Works : and almost from the date of Hall 's appointment , events started to go badly for Pennethorne . |
| 18 | The services of palaeontologists were called upon almost from the start of the Survey in Scotland . |
| 19 | This is all the more surprising because almost from the start of this period the birthrates of many European countries began to go down . |
| 20 | This split made it impossible to unite a broad democratic majority and left the republic divided almost from the start of the regime . |
| 21 | The British and the West Germans , however , remained convinced that the USSR would be more effectively restrained by the belief that Nato would use tactical nuclear weapons almost from the start of a war . |
| 22 | But his dream of reaching the White House was haunted almost from the start by a series of disclosures that would have wrecked the career of another politician . |
| 23 | Her cotton dress was rent almost from the armpit to the hem and as she leaned forward to bring a saucer of water to the lips of a wounded man , the Collector glimpsed three polished ribs and the shrunken globe of her breast ; modesty was one of the many considerations which no longer troubled her . |
| 24 | In terms of difficulty and controversy it was , however , the CNAA 's policy of complementary and contrasting studies , enshrined in Statement No. 3 , that occupied the centre of the stage within the CNAA almost from the adoption of the policy until 1971 . |
| 25 | The logic of early education is that if mentally handicapped children are given stimulation in their formative years , almost from the moment of birth , difficult behavioural problems can be avoided , and considerable academic advancements can be made . |
| 26 | We have already noted that the polytechnic directors were seeking a larger measure of academic independence almost from the moment of designation — most publicly through the CDP press statement in July 1971 expressing a wish for the polytechnics to secure charters . |
| 27 | It was an inexorable social process and almost before the rest of society or history had noticed they had laid claim to the leisure hours of the millions . |
| 28 | He and his wife toiled almost round the clock for seven years to make a success of their T-shirt design and print business — only to land on the scrapheap . |
| 29 | Almost until the day of opening the new buildings were unnamed , and most people probably thought that it would continue to be the " Stockport Secondary School " . |
| 30 | more or less in the er almost in the middle of Spain . |