Example sentences of "almost [adv] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the offensive nature of the title , since it related almost entirely to former Cabinet ministers of the Labour Party , the programme had been procured by a series of deceptions . |
| 2 | The decline was due almost entirely to bad weather disrupting production in the North Sea . |
| 3 | ‘ In silence , the two almost bowed almost stiffly to each other , behaving rather like two — well , two somethings-or-other , thought Patrick . |
| 4 | The historical associations of the object of art noted by Benjamin ( 1973 ) pertain almost inevitably to any object which can be said to have passed through the hands of the ancestors , and are often a pivot around which social identity is constructed . |
| 5 | First , it must address itself in a relevant fashion to the kind of issues identified above , that is , it must be grounded in the moral social , economic and political problems of the late twentieth century , in contrast to our prevailing political and constitutional orthodoxies which originated in , and address themselves almost exclusively to mid-nineteenth century concerns . |
| 6 | The importance of support is almost certainly to some extent bound up with self-esteem and the ability of the individual to cope with difficulties as they arise ( Brown et al. , 1986a ; Pearlin et al. , 1981 ) Given that adverse life events can bring about affective disorders , this is hardly surprising as a general conclusion . |