Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] a close [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has always been a close correlation between the status of older people , and their personal achievement . |
| 2 | There was only a year between their ages and there had always been a close bond between them . |
| 3 | They had always been a close family and that night they had all ended up in tears after a lengthy talk with their family GP who had come to the house to talk to them about Jennifer 's diagnosis . |
| 4 | Lonrho 's chief executive , Mr Tiny Rowland , had once been a close business associate of Mr Mohamed Al Fayed , and the sulphurous mood at Lonrho partly reflected a falling out of old sparring partners . |
| 5 | He had also been a close friend and political ally of Keating for more than 20 years , and had been influential in engineering Keating 's successful bid for the leadership in December 1991 [ see pp. 38675-76 ] . |
| 6 | A lieutenant-colonel , who had evidently been a close friend in his class at St. Cyr , greeting the new C.O. had addressed him as tu , only to receive a shrivelling rebuff : ‘ Colonel , I must request you to keep your distance . |
| 7 | We have always been a close family although there are 12,000 miles between us . |