Example sentences of "almost to [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also tend to be middle-minded , not just because of the selective ( and , until recently , highly secretive ) recruitment procedure by which they are appointed , but also because in the course of their training and socialization they are imbued with a particular self-perception about their role that amounts almost to a consistent ideology ( Parker et al. , 1989 ) . |
| 2 | Two and a half years ago Camel Laird started a campaign to gain access to the intervention funding and because of the total lack of any sort of industrial policy by this government , and their refusal to support the Camel Laird application to the E E C , next month will see the closure of Camel Lairds which will lead to a loss of skills that amounts almost to a criminal act on the part of this government , who seem prepared to allow this country to become a skill-free zone in order to drive down wages and conditions to a rate comparable with some Third World countries . |
| 3 | It swooped and gusted , then hung impermeably , aspiring almost to a solid state . |
| 4 | The news caused the dollar to fall almost to an all-time low against the German mark on European money markets , on Feb. 4 dropping to US$1.00=DM1.4455 . |
| 5 | I dug out some of the wet land and a local man put down a crushed stone track in four days , so we can now drive from the main road almost to the front door . |
| 6 | The dominance of the study of cemeteries up until the end of the nineteenth century was unavoidable , but this source of distortion on our understanding of the period has remained almost to the present day . |
| 7 | Originating in Renaissance times , this pattern of training persisted in this country almost to the present day . |
| 8 | The painting is intellectual rather than emotional , though , cool as it is , it unquestionably stirs certain natures almost to the fainting point . ’ |
| 9 | Hollyhocks splash pastel tones against the whitewashed walls and reach almost to the upper storey . |
| 10 | From 1627 almost to the French Revolution , what was left of it belonged to the local family of Montesquiou-d'Artagnan . |
| 11 | They set off from Turnu Severin , on the River Danube near the Yugoslav border and pedal through some of the highest passes almost to the Moldavian border , in what was formerly the USSR , and on to the Negreni villages . |
| 12 | The monastery lay beside the Arghuri rivulet in the lower part of a great chasm which extended almost to the very summit of the mountain . |
| 13 | The machinery of government , previously firmly under Dutch control , was now staffed by Indonesians almost to the top level . |
| 14 | Reorganizing the lay-out of the production process can therefore permit the much greater automation of final assembly processes if robots , for example , can be programmed to perform different operations for different models almost to the exact moment the components arrive . |
| 15 | Figure 6 shows recordings from one patch in which Ba 2 + inhibited K + channel activity , while channel activity returned almost to the initial level after washing out Ba 2 + . |