Example sentences of "it [verb] almost a " in BNC.
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| 1 | and er as often as not they were ladies who had been separated or divorced and er they had all , a lot of sort of marital problems and it became almost a , a we welfare of job |
| 2 | It had always seemed such an impossible dream , but with Louise talking about it so matter-of-factly it seemed almost a fait accompli . |
| 3 | Even in Britain it seemed almost a law of politics under George II and George III that the Prince of Wales should act as a rallying-point for all those who hoped to benefit from a change of ruler . |
| 4 | It seemed almost a mockery , a travesty of what should have been . |
| 5 | I 'm quite sure that the way forward for teachers and parents is within some kind of co-operative framework , and the only way that can work effectively is for each to be aware of other 's needs and difficulties , and the kind of barriers that have existed in the past for parents to get into schools I think are being lowered by the schools , but it takes almost a generation , I think , for parents to stop being frightened about what school is doing and the kind of parents who 've had bad experiences themselves in schools , I think , have enormous difficulties in approaching teachers and I 'm sure the answer is in terms of co-operative activity — children and schools , schools and parents , and all of them together with myriad of outside agencies that are available for children with severe problems . |
| 6 | It seems almost a pity to subject these lively fancies to the stern test of verisimilitude , but I feel constrained to point out three facts . |
| 7 | Well looking back on it now it seems almost a life time away but it 's amazing just how well you can remember those far off days . |
| 8 | It took almost a year before the German supreme court judged that membership of the EDC was legal under the country 's constitution . |
| 9 | It took almost an hour for Murray to prepare an 15-word statement saying : ‘ I can confirm the ball was changed at lunch-time but will make no further comment . ’ |
| 10 | Charlie , who turned out to be a regular size , was dealt with fairly quickly , but it took almost an hour to find anything that did n't make Tommy look as if he was entering a sack race . |
| 11 | Although electricity only supplies 15 per cent of the UK 's energy demand , it consumes almost a third of primary energy from fossil fuels . |
| 12 | At work there is a great deal of empiricism — sometimes it becomes almost a mystique , as in the steel-making process where the head melter was once supposed to be able to tell whether the melt was ‘ done ’ by spitting into it . |
| 13 | This means that her reproductive tract will contain a mixture of sperm from several sources and it becomes almost a matter of chance as to which particular male 's sperm fertilizes each of her shed eggs . |
| 14 | With all this variety it becomes almost a truism to say that families exist in all kinds of human society . |
| 15 | They assume that erm it 's very difficult to talk about reality , that reality means different things to different people , that people create in many ways their own reality , and they 're interested in the process therefore of fiction-making , they 're interested in erm how people create their own fictions , so that it becomes almost an endless series of mirrors , novelists writing novels about novelists writing novels and so on . |