Example sentences of "almost [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scientists then take these unfinished , inexact hypotheses and present them to other scientists for the express purpose of seeing if the hypothesis will not in fact be shot full of holes , hoping almost that it will be so shot , because Knowledge and Truth are thereby served , if only negatively , in having one more tenuous , groping hypothesis about the nature of the world shown to be false . |
| 2 | Almost immediately it became clear that the river was kicking back at the abuse it was receiving . |
| 3 | Almost immediately it becomes clear that both the number of management levels and number of managers can be sharply cut . |
| 4 | Almost immediately it has vanished , able somehow to levée and jetée through the undergrowth without a sound . |
| 5 | Lisa looked up , and although Folly swung away almost immediately it was too late . |
| 6 | Almost immediately it was revealed that he had told a radio interviewer on the morning of the lunch that there would be no such tax on gold-mining companies , and he was forced to return to parliament later on April 11 to admit that his memory of events had been mistaken . |
| 7 | But the chief aim was to construct what was in some ways an analogue of the dynamics of the personnel situation which could be watched almost while it moved . |
| 8 | Weir got out of commodity , or off-the-shelf , engineering goods , which it had been making almost since it was founded by the family in 1871 , seeing them as too sensitive to changes to domestic demand and expensive to produce compared with international competitors . |
| 9 | Serious structural problems have blighted the building almost since it was opened by Sir Roger Bannister in 1983 . |
| 10 | Well , I was n't prepared to believe that my career would be over almost before it had started . |
| 11 | Lancaster Gate awoke on Monday to find itself accused of doing nothing almost before it had had time to consider doing anything . |
| 12 | The thought , however , evaporated almost before it had formed . |
| 13 | As he watched , a mink pounced on the vole and , although the vole dived from the bank for safety at the last minute , the mink had grabbed it almost before it hit the water . |
| 14 | The brief moment of semi-unity in Spain was over almost before it had begun . |
| 15 | I was welcomed in through the front door almost before it was opened , and settled down in front of a Victorian stove that was brimming with hot coals . |
| 16 | On 5 July they set sail with a fair wind , but the adventure ended almost before it had begun for , 120 miles [ 192 km ] off the coast of Brittany , the little taskforce was challenged by the 60-gun Lion . |
| 17 | They 're bound to take to Filmer too , you know how civilized he can seem , and I do n't suppose news of the trial got much attention here since it collapsed almost before it began . |
| 18 | Paradise is lost , so to speak , almost before it is found , and it is never possessed and savoured . |
| 19 | If it does indeed prove to be the case that the GCSE becomes outmoded almost before it has begun , for the reasons discussed in this chapter , this will represent a tragic waste of scarce educational resources . |
| 20 | ALMOST BEFORE IT 's ANNOUNCED IN EUROPE , IBM 's THINKPAD 700T IS OBSOLETED BY REFINED 710T IN US |
| 21 | Three times he recalled his favourite , Piers Gaveston , from an exile imposed on him first by Edward I and then by the barons ; the Ordinances , to which the king was sworn in 1311 and again in 1317 , he treated with contempt ; the expulsion of the Despensers , father and son , was reversed almost before it was enforced . |
| 22 | Buzz was out of the car almost before it rolled to a halt on the gravel forecourt . |
| 23 | Perhaps if he were to send her money … but the thought died almost before it had crossed his mind . |
| 24 | He saw Richmann 's clubbing motion with the gun almost before it happened , and a voice from the past called for him to run . |
| 25 | She got off the ground so quickly with her public relations it was squashed almost before it came to life . " |
| 26 | The Dakar fiasco came close to ending de Gaulle 's political career almost before it had begun . |
| 27 | The classes are on Tuesday evenings from 7.15 to 9.15 pm , a two-hour session which seems to be over almost before it has started , such is the enjoyment . |
| 28 | But he remained general manager of the Southern Region , almost as it were being his own superior . |
| 29 | At least Stoke-by-Nayland is still almost as it appeared to Constable 's eye . |