Example sentences of "is almost [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is what Moser calls ‘ quasi-random ’ sampling in that it is almost but not quite random . |
| 2 | Brown says NT exhibits a superior memory management scheme and is almost but not quite the equal of Unix at its best . |
| 3 | The suggestion is almost that since right is right , left ( being the opposite of right ) is wrong . |
| 4 | there is a consistent air of frustration in the writings of some of the social scientist contributors … it is almost as though they wish they were in closer touch with the operational side of the service . |
| 5 | It is almost as though he converted too fast . |
| 6 | At this lowest level of British industry it is almost as though struggles are not expected to occur , let alone be won . |
| 7 | The effect is almost as though one were experiencing full immersion for the first time after years of paddling around in the shallows . |
| 8 | It is almost as though one has to pass a test to be their friend . |
| 9 | A Word Child ( 1975 ) , indeed , is so specific in its references to places , and especially to places on the London Underground , that the narrator remarks he was once tempted to call his story the Inner Circle ; and Martin Amis 's London Fields ( 1989 ) is almost as detailed about Notting Hill as if it were a guide-book . |
| 10 | It is almost as though bad organizations are self-created Frankenstein monsters beyond the control or influence of leaders . |
| 11 | It is almost as though fate is saying , Look , I 've made it easy for you ; just get on with it , do it . |
| 12 | It is almost as though they ‘ want ’ to slot together in a particular way , but this illusion is just an inadvertent consequence of their properties . |
| 13 | It is almost as though each improvement in the missile stimulates the next improvement in itself , via its effect on the antidote . |
| 14 | It is almost as though the word job itself has acquired a life and purpose of its own over which we have lost control . |
| 15 | It is almost as though people want to show how intelligent they think they are by the degree of their emancipation from Bible and Catechism |