Example sentences of "it was almost [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was almost a quantum leap in some ways . |
| 2 | As he walked home , he reflected that it was almost a love passage . |
| 3 | It was almost a door and looked out on to a long paved garden bordered with box hedges and there was an inviting looking higher hedge at the bottom with an arch of greenery over a gap in the middle . |
| 4 | It was almost a question , but not quite . |
| 5 | It was almost a gang thing . |
| 6 | But the relationship was extremely good , I think that you might say that for many years in my service , it was almost a case of the law abiding citizens in Ipswich coping with the wrongdoers . |
| 7 | Although it was almost a century before the Ottomans eradicated the last traces of the medieval Serbian empire by taking the Serbian fortress of Smederovo on the Danube in 1459 , the battle of Kosovo sounded the death knell for independent Serbia . |
| 8 | It was almost a betrayal . |
| 9 | It was almost a rerun of experience in Germany and Austria . |
| 10 | ‘ It was almost a Mafia situation , ’ says our heroine . |
| 11 | It was almost a year before it was strictly necessary and at the time there were voices advising delay . |
| 12 | It was almost a year before Farr 's was rebuilt and my father worked at his forge in the open air right through the winter . |
| 13 | It was almost a year since he had been there and in that time nothing had been done , nothing had been touched . |
| 14 | Moving round the archways of Valencia 's bull-ring where , that night , Nirvana would give Spain its first in-the-flesh taste of what this nonsense was all about , it was almost a relief to greet Kurt Cobain once again , a paler , bleached-haired , bespectacled Kurt Cobain , but recognisably the same lovable scruff who late last year turned rock 'n' roll upside down with a song named after a deodorant . |
| 15 | I was drained after meeting Normandin and when Mary and I got to Roger Auque 's hotel , it was almost a relief to find that he was out . |
| 16 | They ended up laughing about that , but it was the uneasy laughter of desperation and displacement , and all they could do after that was finish the whisky and have the joint Rory had been working on , and it was almost a relief when Fergus was sick as a dog out of the window , hanging out barfing onto the slates and into the guttering while Rory tried to clean the plaster off the top bunk and stowed the guns out of harm 's way . |
| 17 | It was almost a relief to be being attacked on this particular issue , because there were other far more personal ones to be dreaded . |
| 18 | I think it was almost a relief to him — after all this time . ’ |
| 19 | It was almost a relief when the door opposite suddenly opened and Ettore Di Leonardo appeared , immaculate as ever in a dark suit and sober tie . |
| 20 | It was almost a relief to discover that even in the short time she had been on board ship she was already beginning to acquire a golden tan . |
| 21 | They started now as the sound of breaking china came to them , followed by Mrs Carver 's voice on a note so high-pitched it was almost a scream , as she cried , ‘ Out of me way ! |
| 22 | It was a sa so big that it was almost a lake . |
| 23 | The woman leaned across her typewriter and flashed a smile so chummy it was almost a grin . |
| 24 | It was almost a purr as Lotta 's eyes blazed a totally false smile at her . |
| 25 | It was almost a cry of protest . |
| 26 | After all , Papa was only just forty-one , and Mama was younger than that , and they were both so handsome that it was a wonder — or perhaps not — that they were so faithful to one another , so much so that it was almost a joke , Papa having been a great ladies ' man in his youth , she had discovered . |
| 27 | It was almost a wail of anguish . |
| 28 | Rodriguez spoke softly , his voice so low it was almost a whisper . |
| 29 | It was almost a disappointment . |
| 30 | Beyond the rail , reached by a stairway so steep that it was almost a ladder , was the main lower level . |