Example sentences of "it [be] almost a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 's almost a bit |
| 2 | It 's almost a confession — though that is perhaps not the right word — of the depth of feeling . |
| 3 | We 'll have we 'll we 'll have a very short tiny tiny little look at it even though it 's almost a holiday , right . |
| 4 | Anybody who swears allegiance to United must share the same sense of dismay at what has happened , and what is still going on — for me , it 's almost a sense of revulsion . |
| 5 | er , In spite of the fact that the Germanies were at one time united , it , it 's almost a culture shock I suppose . |
| 6 | It 's almost a case of sensory overload . |
| 7 | It 's almost a kind of professional remark . |
| 8 | It 's something more than a Crucifixion ; it 's almost a piece of slaughter , butchery ; meat and flesh . |
| 9 | It 's almost a piano but with a MIDI pickup on five of the high strings . |
| 10 | And do you realise it 's almost a week since I saw you ? ’ |
| 11 | Actually , he 's so like my father it 's almost a bonus of having him near as well . ’ |
| 12 | I mean — it 's almost a 60% increase in the market over the last 10 years and that market is growing and here we have the one and only major car company owned by the British being threatened with closure when all the Japanese and the Germans and the French and the Americans are trying to expand to meet this growing market and it does n't make sense and that point came out very very strongly this afternoon . |
| 13 | It 's almost a blessing to be bashed about . |
| 14 | It 's almost a habit . ’ |
| 15 | It 's almost a shame to shoot some of the beautifully drawn and shaded creatures … almost . |
| 16 | I think it 's almost an impossibility to stamp out deformed genes , new defective genes are arising in the population all the time . |
| 17 | It 's almost an endorsement for the single-brand path which guarantees compatibility , even though — as I mentioned above — no manufacturer excels in all areas . |
| 18 | He says this last in a tone of frustrated anguish : it 's almost an appeal for somebody to enlighten him . |
| 19 | It is almost a Robin Hood notion : ‘ you do n't feel so guilty with big stores … they allow wastage ’ . |
| 20 | For example , it is almost a requirement for publication in some academic journals that diagrams ( and high-quality diagrams at that ) be included ; in other disciplines , diagrams are simply unacceptable . |
| 21 | IT seems incredible that it is almost a decade since Virginia Bodman was selected to become one of Durham Cathedral 's earliest artists in residence . |
| 22 | It is almost a proof that you are not willing to think about things . |
| 23 | The Minister may recall that it is almost a year since I first raised in the House the matter of the proposed incinerator in Renfrew . |
| 24 | It 's a necklace so lavish it is almost a corsage . |
| 25 | ‘ I love absolutely everything that Saint Laurent does : it is almost a sort of national pride ’ |
| 26 | He wrote that " the tyranny of the majority is now generally included among the evils against which society requires to be on its guard " , and that " In politics it is almost a triviality to say that public opinion now rules the world . " |
| 27 | It is almost a truism to say that the great danger for Christians is to become settlers and no longer to do anything that requires any risk . |
| 28 | So it is almost a matter of philotimo , honour , that even in the relatively affluent Greece of recent years nobody who can possibly fiddle his taxes has failed to do so . |
| 29 | It is almost a throwback debate to 1981 , with the Government saying that things are bad but — a Micawberism — ’ Wait and see , something better will turn up , it might get a bit better . ’ |
| 30 | It is almost a rule of Middle East politics that democracy in Arab states means the emergence of a strong Islamic movement . |