Example sentences of "[vb -s] it almost " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore when he does give way and claim it for his own , he loses it almost immediately to Gollum , who bites off Ring and finger with it . |
| 2 | One would have wished for some recognition of the fact that a view of Co-operation which limits it almost wholly to the Consumers ' Movement and is satisfied with that limitation , is at least to be regretted . |
| 3 | In cases of phonological dyslexia , the patient finds it almost impossible to read any word with which he or she was unfamiliar prior to brain injury . |
| 4 | For instance , he finds it almost impossible to speak on the telephone . |
| 5 | For example , his mother finds it almost impossible to prepare Veronica 's tea , which she likes to feed to the child , because John empties cupboards upstairs , turns on taps , climbs on top of the wardrobe , hangs from the banisters and shouts at the top of his voice . |
| 6 | Jeffrey , 19 , of Woodcock Close , Bankfields , Eston , Middlesbrough , a maths student at Warwick University , says he finds it almost impossible to manage . |
| 7 | The soloist , Crispian Steele-Perkins , plays it almost impeccably yet , once again , I felt the effect was decorative rather than assertive . |
| 8 | This small glass frog guarding its eggs on a large green leaf combines a semi-transparent body with a spotted skin that renders it almost invisible to its enemies . |
| 9 | It is very light in weight and its dark colour makes it almost invisible once in place . |
| 10 | The deal makes it almost certain that Mr Sam Nujoma , president of Swapo , will become the country 's first president . |
| 11 | The nature of the Premier League club chairmen , most of whom are highly successful businsessmen , not without confidence in their own judgement , makes it almost impossible for them to give others carte blanche . |
| 12 | Then there is the whole question of phase separation in glasses , which makes it almost impossible to produce homogenous glasses of certain compositions . |
| 13 | This makes it almost impossible to get the club back to the ball consistently . |
| 14 | Their feedback-drenched fog makes it almost impossible to discern anything resembling a tune , and each song coasts along for upwards of five minutes — but it 's precisely their avoidance of career-minded polish that makes them so invigorating . |
| 15 | Notes on a lesson are often of a vague and impressionistic kind , which makes it almost impossible to draw the kind of inferences needed for our purposes , while those particular instances that are recorded are often atypical , having caught the observer 's attention for that very reason . |
| 16 | Such a goal usually makes it almost impossible to use past expenditure levels in estimating unit costs and considerable ingenuity is often required , which sometimes regrettably leads to estimates which are almost pure fabrication . |
| 17 | A statement from the harbour-master which confirmed the conversation he had had with Mary Penrose 's father : ‘ In my opinion , having in mind recent weather conditions , the finding of the body on the west side of Kernick Head makes it almost certain that the body was placed in the water further to the west , most likely in the neighbourhood of the old sewage outfall … ’ |
| 18 | They 're going to the B B C engineers who put this screen in the top of the ceiling , which makes it almost impossible to read , are now going to move it . |
| 19 | With so many others in the dole queue , all desperate to find work , having any kind of handicap makes it almost impossible to move up the line . |
| 20 | ‘ I also know that Mrs Chapman has arthritis which makes it almost impossible for her to climb those stairs to the little flat , ’ I added for good measure . |