Example sentences of "[vb mod] almost be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The birds gave voice so vigorously that relief that the sun had come at last might almost be detected in their song — the warm , exhilarating sun . |
| 2 | Indeed , so close is the degree of correspondence between prosecution preference and decision as to venue ( 96 per cent according to one study : Riley and Vennard , 1999 ) that magistrates might almost be said to have sub-delegated their responsibility to the latter . |
| 3 | Their subordination to adults in general is minimized by what might almost be called an avoidance of them : from the age of five or six , they return home only to eat and sleep , and spend the rest of their time in unsupervised gangs . |
| 4 | It takes place at night and might almost be called ordeal by fire . |
| 5 | Picasso , it has been seen , was anxious to introduce into his paintings what might almost be called a ‘ sculptural completeness ’ . |
| 6 | When you come to analyse his splendid breakfasts you find that with slight changes he might almost be describing a nineteen-sixties , chop-house revival period , West End restaurant lunch . |
| 7 | If that is so he might almost be considered the initiator of scholasticism with its dialectic method . |
| 8 | Indeed it might almost be conjectured that those families in which political nous was widely distributed were just those that found the principle of primogeniture unpalatable . |
| 9 | One might almost be driven to conclude that there are in fact two ‘ plans ’ , the public one which always seems to go awry and a secret one that the economy actually works to . |
| 10 | In Sterne 's Shandy Hall the similarity of its servants Obadiah and Susannah to the rest of that eccentric household might almost be described as a family likeness . |
| 11 | The sustained and systematic assault upon the assumptions and procedures of classic realism , vigorously pursued by the leading nouveaux romanciers , could almost be said to represent a manifesto of postmodern aims and aspirations ; while the emphatic self-reflexivity of their novels is frequently cited as paradigmatic of radical textuality . |
| 12 | Of a sudden the room was quiet , and when she turned from the mirror and stood before the three elderly sisters , it could almost be said there were tears in their eyes , and in her own . |
| 13 | When a three- or four-year-old child first comes to school , his real concern could almost be said to be his own identity . |
| 14 | It had been a terrible summer , she reflected , one of those damp , chilly English summers which could almost be mistaken for one of their recent damp , mild winters . |
| 15 | The sky was so clear and the stars so visible that the earth could almost be seen turning . |
| 16 | The stability of the Gittins family could almost be matched in other parts of the parish by the Hanmers and the Atcherleys of Marton , the Watkinses of Shotton and less wealthy farmers such as the Downtons of Alderton . |
| 17 | So in everything that follows , it should be borne in mind that the sample under discussion is — possibly more than might have been expected — a group close together in age , which could almost be regarded as a generation . |
| 18 | Karlinsky 's visit could almost be regarded as the signal for the journey to commence . |
| 19 | Dent , with its narrow cobbled main street and its white buildings , could almost be taken for a Westmorland village , whereas West Burton , by-passed by the Bishopdale road and standing with its houses clustered round a broad wedge of a village green with cross , stocks and children 's swings , is very much a village of the eastern Dales . |
| 20 | Actually some groups in current Western society wear what could almost be termed a uniform , in that it serves to give them a distinct identity , for example skinheads , hippies , and the tinted , spiked hair brigade ; in fact these non-verbal cues can influence interaction to such an extent that one has to be careful to avoid stereotyping , sometimes quite erroneously . |
| 21 | They totalled seventy-six drawings and made such a lavish display , in a climate so obviously orientated towards a classical outcome , that they could almost be considered as a challenge to the sponsors with their instinctive bias towards classical architecture . |
| 22 | It could almost be considered as an extreme act of defiance , and many of them showed their disapproval by refusing to have any more contact with me . |
| 23 | The result was that they could almost be read as things more real than the things they qualified , a pattern of eternal forms from another world , not part of the solid world of cabbages and pears — yellow and violet , blue and orange , red and green . |
| 24 | At ‘ battle level ’ the action is fast and furious , and this part of Campaign could almost be removed and developed as a stand alone game . |
| 25 | The logic of an overall national agreement could almost be left to speak for itself though the conciliation board campaign itself was not formally abandoned until the outbreak of war in August 1914 , when the union immediately declared a truce in all its disputes with the Federation . |
| 26 | The Holsteins also tend to have much more white in the coat so that the white areas predominate and they could almost be described as white-and-blacks in contrast to the black-and-white Friesian type . |
| 27 | ‘ If it was n't all so dangerous , I 'd almost be finding it interesting , you know . ’ |
| 28 | They knew that a number of passengers had joined the cruise just to see St Kilda , and that they would almost be made to feel responsible for any disappointment . |
| 29 | If she had n't already had evidence of his contempt for her she would almost be taken in by this new smiling look . |
| 30 | This perspective is here distilled out of the similarities between two major studies of consumption , one of which may almost be credited with initiating such studies , while the other provides the most extensive contemporary survey . |