Example sentences of "almost [adj] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every nerve-ending felt exposed , her skin almost painful to the touch as she moved her hands across his warm skin , touched each muscle until it tensed , then slid her palms over his smooth back and buttocks . |
| 2 | She listened , listened to the rise and fall of his voice in her ear , a rumbling incantation which made her almost oblivious to the movement of his body . |
| 3 | Almost fragrant to the mouth . |
| 4 | He hit the right post with a penalty kick and the ball bounced almost square to the left . |
| 5 | It is no secret that Forster has not been popular , his vigorous preference for a radical brand of abstract cultural history being considered almost hostile to the Museum 's more object-based aims . |
| 6 | EXPLORER Sir Ranulph Fiennes and companion Dr Michael Stroud were almost halfway to the South Pole yesterday in their attempt at the first unaided crossing of Antarctica . |
| 7 | Llanover Hall in Cardiff was as packed as most venues the company play and the enthusiastic applause must become almost tedious to the team . |
| 8 | Instead , the speakers for the religions seem to be almost indifferent to the lying , cheating , devious commercial practices , the usury , the violence of petty and major crime , the unbridled selfishness manifest among some of the multitudes using the roads , the odour of the suspicion of bribery and corruption rising above the town halls and other organisation headquarters and many other evils . |
| 9 | The composition of the Leo X tiles does not compare with any of these , including those from the postulated source at Genoa , but they are almost identical to the composition of contemporary tiles definitely known to have been made at Seville , such as the example in Figure 6.3b . |
| 10 | The dna message is copied out onto the rna strand , which is almost identical to the dna ( and which actually generates it ) . |
| 11 | complement of bogie cars in the Croydon fleet and had bodies almost identical to the Corporation cars 46–55 . |
| 12 | These 1993 forecasts for Japan and Germany are almost identical to the average of The Economist 's latest monthly poll of private-sector seers ( see page 131 ) . |
| 13 | At the start of the campaign , constituency candidates were almost invisible to the electorate : very few electors claimed to have heard anything about them . |
| 14 | Ellis Island lies off the tip of Manhattan , almost adjacent to the Statue of Liberty , and was known as the ‘ Gateway to Americas ’ — the land of fortune and freedom . |
| 15 | ‘ When the guy was preparing to bowl , he leaned right forward so that his body was almost parallel to the ground . |