Example sentences of "[be] almost [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first thing we discovered was that there seemed to be almost no information to go on . |
| 2 | You 'd be almost a stranger too . ’ |
| 3 | By the time I came back with the camera it would be almost a beaten track . |
| 4 | For them , it must be almost a relief to walk around listening to the cocks crowing or the cows mooing — it must help to keep them sane . |
| 5 | It seems to be almost a perception of physics as an ‘ arts ’ subject ; indeed , Jane told me that she had been equally good at arts and sciences but had chosen sciences because of the job and university prospects . |
| 6 | Here the problem of trespass from neighbouring urban areas can be almost a way of life for some harassed farmers with continual problems of damaged or stolen crops , dumped rubbish , damage to fences , gates and farm buildings and machinery and the worrying of livestock . |
| 7 | Sid James had n't made a picture since the one that was without the Williams credit , Cabby , but he was soon to be almost a fixture on the set , playing parts as stereotyped as Ken 's . |
| 8 | That Ross — so handsome , so much older and more experienced than she was — should be interested in her , had seemed to be almost a miracle beyond belief . |
| 9 | Perhaps most significant , microbiologists now realise that plasmids , once thought to be exceptional , are so common as to be almost the rule among bacteria . |
| 10 | Besides being bad for Mrs Thatcher personally , it appeared to be almost the worst possible result for the party as a whole since it made inevitable a further week of damaging internecine strife . |
| 11 | The Foreign Office accommodation , with the possible exception of the Foreign Secretary 's residence , would be almost the same as that laid down in the competition . |
| 12 | in the following issue of The Building News asked if ‘ E.A.F. ’ had ever heard of an astylar composition , but another reply , from ‘ A. ’ in The Times on 1st November , was to be almost the last comment in that newspaper on the controversy . |
| 13 | In 1799 Wordsworth 's own daughter , Caroline , would be almost the same age as Emma ; he had , of course , never seen her . |
| 14 | What needs to be emphasised , though , is that direct experience — becoming part of a way of life that includes the alien in a wider definition of what it is to be human — seems to be almost the only way of achieving demystification . |
| 15 | So , for example , although a family of four will use more water than someone living alone , the costs of providing the water and sewerage services will be almost the same for both households . |
| 16 | Part French and part halting English , it said that they planned to visit London and then Scotland , and though it would be almost the grouse shooting season there , they would come for August 12th to Yorkshire , taking up Robert 's invitation . |
| 17 | That you 'll get you can pretty much guarantee you 'll get one , and it 'll be almost the same as that . |
| 18 | In this particular drawing the forecaster has assumed that the future is going to be almost the same as the present ( at least in the characteristics he is depicting ) . |
| 19 | Yes , I was there erm and saw them working , and I think you were looking fairly amazed that the answer came out to be almost the correct answer on several occasions , with quite different bits of apparatus . |
| 20 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 21 | Each one of the following would in itself be almost an insuperable barrier to having the real issues of the case examined . |
| 22 | Wi certainly broaden , we 've we 've envisaged from the outset that the aircraft would be both will be multi- role capable and that erm all that the primary design driver will be the air-to-air air superiority role but the air-to-surface role would be almost an equal , clearly one has to have a a prioritisation and those particular weapons in the air-to-surface side , the conventional armed stand off missile along the low level er low level laser guided bomb and the future anti armour weapon , they clearly erm really take the weaponeering side into the next century . |