Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] almost a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one on the bass side is almost an inch long and it really shows , especially under strong lighting . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Such optimism is almost a rarity these days . |
| 4 | Be warned , both of you , though , my hacienda is almost a kingdom . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | COMPLACENCY is almost a sacking offence at Hunslet Transportation Projects , the Birmingham-based firm which in June 1990 startled railway experts by winning a contract to supply 37 electric passenger trains to Regional Railways . |
| 9 | COMPLACENCY is almost a sacking offence at Hunslet Transportation Projects , the Birmingham-based firm which in June 1990 startled railway experts by winning a contract to supply 37 electric passenger trains to Regional Railways . |
| 10 | The prospectus is almost a written specification of what you have on offer at school and its preparation deserves a great deal of careful thought . |
| 11 | The open server programming interface is almost a |
| 12 | BY petrol engine standards , a small diesel is almost a contradiction in terms . |
| 13 | Wild thing : pricey at £17 , but this hand-painted mug from Honiton Pottery is almost a work of art . |
| 14 | and the long head is almost a skull , |
| 15 | Occasion is almost a synonym of cause in many contexts : ( 168 ) She asked Mathilda what occasioned Manfred to take Theodore for a spectre . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | For one reason , space is almost a vacuum , so that molecules erm are few and far between , and one thing about chemistry it is really the science of not particularly molecules but molecules that react with one another , but here once one has got a molecule in space it does n't actually meet another one for a very long time , so even a molecule that is reactive and which may only last for maybe a microsecond in the laboratory , interstellar space it may last for a thousand years . |
| 18 | Ignorance is almost a crime in some cases . |
| 19 | On the Government 's own figures this total is almost a million people — 960,000 in fact . |
| 20 | The Liverpudlian trio have sold their souls to post-punk mayhem ( with an injection of screeching rockabilly ) and the operation is almost a success . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A video camera is almost an essential tool in recording evidence of work undertaken in various subject areas and of children 's development . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | At present an ethology of cognition is almost a contradiction in terms . |
| 25 | His statement is almost a classic of philistinism . |
| 26 | Some were the direct result of campaigning by the Railway Development Society and the list is almost a tribute to it . |
| 27 | The third and final category is almost a superordinate to the other two in that it asks how all the changes implied in the first two aspects are being handled . |
| 28 | People in Western Europe , for example , rarely dispute that Jesus lived , but in Eastern Europe the denial of his historical existence is almost a canon of Marxist dogma . |
| 29 | The mill 's chequered history is almost a Who 's Who of eminent local individuals and families of clothiers . |
| 30 | Form-filling is almost a way of life in these former Soviet republics and Walker , not surprisingly , recommended a streamlining of this practice . |