Example sentences of "[is] almost a " in BNC.
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| 31 | I did not try one with the full sixty degrees , which is almost a full airbrake setting and would doubtless produce a still slower stall speed , but the Bölkow is obviously capable of getting into a very short field if required . |
| 32 | Yet there is almost a total lack of out-of-school childcare in rural areas . |
| 33 | This most exotic of the British colonies will return to Chinese control in 1997 , and no one knows how drastically life will change in a land where the pursuit of the HK dollar is almost a religion . |
| 34 | Slattery 's is almost a walk-in , walk-off part . |
| 35 | The Liverpudlian trio have sold their souls to post-punk mayhem ( with an injection of screeching rockabilly ) and the operation is almost a success . |
| 36 | What you are proposing is almost a ‘ psychology of aesthetic perception ’ ? |
| 37 | There is almost a tinge of predestination in footballers ' reflections on how they came to sport in the first place . |
| 38 | But it is vital , before we canonise the creatures , to note that acting for an end ( requiring teleological explanation ) is almost a defining feature of the living world as a whole . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Hand-cutting of hay by scythe is almost a thing of the past , as people either have their own tractor-driven machines or can hire someone to do the job . |
| 41 | Thanet wing , however , has as its primary purpose to keep its inmates from physical harm ; the good work that is undoubtedly done there with individuals is almost a bonus . |
| 42 | Many of the photographs are of almost unknown objects ; the bibliography is almost a book in itself and there is a fully illustrated catalogue raisonné of the medieval European jewellery in the V&A . |
| 43 | ‘ Racing is almost a taboo subject if we 're having a barbecue or something , ’ explains Webster who managed to share a pit with Michel all through their 1990 title battle . |
| 44 | Such optimism is almost a rarity these days . |
| 45 | It is almost a complicating factor , or a catalyst for other developments . |
| 46 | However , the ‘ If only … ’ form is almost a conventional signal for the expression of a wish in story-telling , and as such is something children have to learn . |
| 47 | They do not know that , for once , they will be eating what is almost a peasant dish . |
| 48 | Ignorance is almost a crime in some cases . |
| 49 | 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 . " |
| 50 | This is almost a classic illustration of under development in the autonomist sense . |
| 51 | The implicit argument is almost a feudal recognition that such land is given conditionally and that where the obligation is broken the gift shall revert , on action , to the donor , founder or patron . |
| 52 | Where earlier in the day had prevailed an exercise in organised pandemonium — the sawing of wood for an extra set buttress , the clanking of lights being swung into position , and everywhere the ringing cacophony of cross conversation — now there is almost a deafening silence , broken only by the odd apologetic cough as the minutes tick towards 8.30 . |
| 53 | For Robert Thornton , Mrs Gaskell 's honourable industrialist , this indifference is almost a matter of principle : ‘ The masters would be trenching on the independence of their hands , in a way that I , for one , would not feel justified in doing , if we interfered too much with the life they lead out of the mills . ’ |
| 54 | On the Government 's own figures this total is almost a million people — 960,000 in fact . |
| 55 | Butter provides 200 calories per ounce ; half a pound of butter is almost a day 's calorie intake for an adult female ! |
| 56 | It 's a necklace so lavish it is almost a corsage . |
| 57 | The round-faced , round-skulled head tops a body on which the skirt is almost a cylinder ; and the cylindrical skirt reappears even more emphatically in a magnificent over life-size marble , now headless , dedicated a little later , perhaps already in the second quarter of the century , by one Cheramyes to Hera on Samos ( fig. 28 ) . |
| 58 | One occasionally comes across a man who is almost a recluse and one wonders how he manages to make a living for he does n't seem very interested in doing so . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | Distinctively tinted , the aromatics are so strong you could confuse it with cologne as it glugs out of the bottle ; there is almost a lavendery quality . |