Example sentences of "[adj] [is] almost " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is almost certainly an illusion : as she becomes surer of her hold on the affections of her poet , so she becomes surer of herself , can dispense with affectations , and dares to speak with a certain authority about compositions that her lover sends to her — animadversions that the poet in turn receives quite humbly . |
| 2 | This is almost certainly not the case and does Canberra a grave disservice , though it does illustrate one of the problems behind the fixture . |
| 3 | Cor , he said , this is almost like being an art student again . |
| 4 | As there is a trio of high and narrow lights in each main gable , the problem of reconciling this glazing with the added upper floor was less critical than in a case where large windows , surmounted by pointed arches , occupy the gables — this is almost a standard feature of Victorian village schools . |
| 5 | Market research shows at least 3,500 practices plan to computerise in the next 12 months , and this is almost certainly a conservative figure . |
| 6 | This is almost certainly because the decision to send them in during the later stages of the accident was political ( western-made robots might have been used instead , had the new Soviet leader , one Mikhail Gorbachev , been willing to let the West learn the extent of the disaster ) . |
| 7 | There have been 680 reported cases of AIDS in South Africa , but this is almost certainly an underestimate . |
| 8 | This is almost as much fun as going diving and is the ability to interface the Solution with a desk top computer and record , organise and recall all normal logbook information and also any dive profiles from the Solution 's internal memory . |
| 9 | Since this is almost as great as the differences these authors found between the three species ( tawny owls — 51 per cent bone loss ; long-eared owls — 46 per cent ; and barn owls — 34 per cent ) , some consideration must be given to this problem . |
| 10 | But this is almost certainly the result of systematic observation in Chichester Harbour . |
| 11 | This is almost the same size as a conventional audio cassette . |
| 12 | This is almost twice the size of the only other ultraviolet telescope now in orbit , the International Ultraviolet Explorer , a joint American-European-British satellite . |
| 13 | According to Craig and Chou , it is already contributing 0.23°C to mean global temperatures through the greenhouse effect , and this is almost 40 per cent of the possible ( but not yet confirmed ) effect of carbon dioxide today . |
| 14 | The answer to this is almost certainly ‘ Yes it would ’ , for humans are well aware that those who have guilty secrets , rarely enjoy true peace of mind . |
| 15 | This is almost obligatory , because it takes a bit of practise before you become dexterous enough to become adept with the net and experienced enough to discover the hiding places of the various fish and other interesting creatures . |
| 16 | If you do n't have any , then this is almost certainly the reason for your breeding failure . |
| 17 | This is almost the end of Week 1 and you have nearly done it . |
| 18 | I told her : ‘ This is almost my favourite kind [ of book ] — when someone goes to a decaying country house , and finds a lot of odd people in it . |
| 19 | This is almost always caused by bad wound management . |
| 20 | But this is almost the reverse of the case . |
| 21 | This is almost the same as the average poll tax bill of £564 . |
| 22 | However , this is almost certainly not true of disorders like schizophrenia , which are better visualised as aberrations of otherwise normal physiological and psychological processes which for some reason pass beyond their usual adaptive limits ; here the term ‘ dysfunction ’ , rather than disease seems more appropriate . |
| 23 | As we will argue later , this is almost certainly what happens in most BSL interpreting and the message produced will be , at best , ambiguous . |
| 24 | It is said that they learn to ride before they learn to walk , and this is almost true . |
| 25 | But this is almost impossible to do , even by recourse to highly contrived situations not encountered in the wild . |
| 26 | Although this is almost five times the proportion of non-handicapped who were unemployed , the figures also show that almost half of ‘ handicapped ’ 18 year olds were in employment , even if most of the jobs were repetitive , unrewarding and insecure . |
| 27 | The first evidence for this is almost 20 years old . |
| 28 | This is almost to concede , if it does not in fact do so , that a board deriving its authority from two opposed sources can not constitute a corporate body such as decision-taking requires . |
| 29 | If you get a sudden whiff of musk as you walk along a path in the early morning , this is almost certainly fox and not badger , which is rarely powerful enough to hang in the air . |
| 30 | This is almost certainly due in part to an ambiguity inherent in the role itself . |