Example sentences of "almost in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Stepney 40 per cent of the parishioners were Jews , and almost in the first week I was to become aware of something new , when the rector , Bertram Simpson , later Bishop of Southwark , suddenly said to me , ‘ Tomorrow is the Day of Atonement . |
| 2 | Prior to 1924 Nizan had been enveloped , cocooned , embalmed almost in the reassuring network of social relations on which the process of schooling is founded : hierarchical teaching and administrative structures , institutional discipline , academic discipline . |
| 3 | The contestation of meaning can be regarded as a fundamentally transgressive practice which can have a liberating effect on the reader — hence his emphasis on the value of the ludic aspect of fractured narrative which had a ‘ carnivalesque ’ role ( almost in the Bakhtinian sense ) of freeing the reader . |
| 4 | Almost in the same instant , George was back in his doorway . |
| 5 | But almost in the same instant she rejected that idea . |
| 6 | Writing by the art critic of a newspaper is self-evidently criticism , in parallel with the writing of music and theatre critics ; an exhibition can be treated almost in the same way as a performance . |
| 7 | When the Jesuit Benedict Göes passed by Khotan in 1603 he reported that the superior kind of jade was taken from rivers ‘ almost in the same way in which divers fish for gems ’ . |
| 8 | Quite , providing there was only one representative , and we were n't overburdened , providing it was clearly understood that they were there almost in the same way that a local member would be , to speak on a given item , and not to vote , then I do n't think we 'd have any objections , but it 's entirely up to the Committee , how do you feel ? |
| 9 | They were shooed away by the Sheikha , who rebuked them for being naughty and greeted me almost in the same breath . |
| 10 | Then , almost in the same breath and contemplating all that space , he added , ‘ You 're not going to fill it up with furniture are you ? ’ |
| 11 | Yet almost in the same breath they stated that men should earn more because they had ‘ wives and bairns ’ to support . |
| 12 | In I Corinthians 2 he can say almost in the same breath that it is the Spirit who shows believers the deep things of God , and that we have the mind of Christ . |
| 13 | And then , almost in the same breath , his voice gone hard , ‘ What was the date of Mario Ángel 's birth ? ’ |
| 14 | Then , almost in the same breath , he turned on his heel and strode out of the room without another word . |
| 15 | She watched in silence , her heart crying out to him , suddenly fearful that almost in the same moment that she 'd found him she had lost him , but without knowing why . |
| 16 | The new version , it has to be said , is almost in the same league . |