Example sentences of "dangerously close to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A yacht crewed by a man and three laughing women careered dangerously close to the shore . |
| 2 | … particular care must be taken before stigmatising a decision as one at which no reasonable person could have arrived , for this is coming dangerously close to the court substituting its own discretion for that of the tribunal . |
| 3 | However , the boundary between policy and administration is often blurred and civil servants may be led dangerously close to the discussion of policy . |
| 4 | dangerously close to the ground . |
| 5 | I was moving dangerously close to the potato peelings . |
| 6 | Self-important democratic politicians who have been themselves well-treated by tyrants of all stripes come dangerously close to the stance of classic fellow-travellers like George Bernard Shaw — in Shaw 's words , as seven million starved to death in Russia in 1932 , ‘ I have never eaten so well . ’ |