Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The need for wood for fuel , building materials and tools would have required extensive woodland close to the settlement . |
| 2 | In April two Saudi-flag tankers , one the ULCC Safina al-Arab , appear to have been caught quite separately by Iraqi aircraft close to Kharg . |
| 3 | Observers commented that the limited extent of the survey favoured London , which has few shopping or residential areas close to parliament , at the expense of cities such as Rome , which has a dense central street pattern . |
| 4 | As implied above , another effect of generally high crude prices earlier on had been to encourage the economics of developing oil accumulations discovered outside the OPEC countries — not only in the industrialized world , in places like the North Sea , but also in some countries close to OPEC members , like Oman and Mexico . |
| 5 | Controlling production by massive ‘ bribes ’ in the form of aid to Third World drug-producing countries in exchange for specific measurable target reductions in production and controls on local drug merchants requires major intergovernmental agreements and even so will not prevent the illicit manufacture close to the point of consumption of man-made ‘ designer drugs ’ . |
| 6 | We shall take up residence in autumn , not later , for I am to have another child close to Christmas , I believe . |
| 7 | Something like it still seems to be believed by some economists close to Mrs Thatcher . |
| 8 | Yet when it was proposed to erect a massive ‘ brick man ’ , designed by sculptor Anthony Gormley and funded by a band of enthusiasts , on a derelict site close to the main railway line into Leeds , the local authority took fright and vetoed the idea . |
| 9 | The Belfast campus comprises two large and well-equipped buildings close to the centre of the city . |
| 10 | Osborne ( 1977 ) considered the development of an elongated shell form in N. lapillus enclaves close to their southern limit in Massachusetts as an adaptation to resist desiccation . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's one of the few places close to Washington where you can get lost and still not get hurt , ’ Ashelman said . |
| 12 | Zips : a strong two-way zip runs very freely — a series of pleated stitching close to each side of the zip preventing any loose fabric catching . |
| 13 | Rather less simply , some people close to Crédit Lyonnais think it may also have lent money to Florio Fiorini , a Swiss-based Italian associated with Mr Parretti . |
| 14 | It was a weirdly intimate experience , holding this plump old woman close to my body , feeling her hair in my face , and yet she was a stranger . |
| 15 | If it can be demonstrated beyond doubt that a ray of light passing close to the sun is deflected in a curved path , then it is not the case that light necessarily travels in straight lines . |
| 16 | The experimental observation of the gravitational spectral shift and of the bending of light passing close to the Sun indicate that space–time is distorted by the presence of matter . |
| 17 | Its vineyards , which have grown both black and white grapes for well over a hundred years , form a horseshoe around the Montagne d'Avize , starting with south-west-facing slopes south-west of the village , bending into a bank of north-facing vines at the back of the village and curving round into north-east-facing slopes close to the village of Cramant . |
| 18 | There was a clearing among some trees close to the river and a number of two-wheeled carts had been parked there . |
| 19 | To meet some of this demand close to the city , where housing can be better served by public transport , and where journeys to work will be shorter than from more remote areas , some Green Belt land , for example to the south east of the city , will be developed . |
| 20 | The headquarters of the Department of Adult and Continuing Education are located in a modern , well-equipped centre close to the main building at Jordanstown . |
| 21 | How deep such bonds could go is suggested by a Sussex carter 's grandson who had been ‘ very happy ’ as a child brought up by his grandparents , ‘ much attached ’ to them , and who writes of how he later found a house for his ageing grandmother close to his own and nursed her through her last illness : ‘ no mother could have been more kind . ’ |
| 22 | And he had gone out by the front door , presumably to present an appearance of normality if he should be seen by any of the family — a late evening stroll before bed being a simple enough amusement — while she could save the whole circuit of the house by using the back door close to the kitchen . |
| 23 | Surridge emerged from club cricket as a tearaway , fast-medium bowler , a dangerous hitter and , more than anything else , as a fearless catcher close to the wicket . |
| 24 | comes down to earth at a residential road close to Milngavie station . |
| 25 | In most cases the slaughter still continues , driving some species close to extinction . |
| 26 | Residence Caravelle offers fresh and well-equipped apartments close to the resort , pine woods and a fine sandy beach . |
| 27 | International : Serbian invaders close to taking Muslim centre |
| 28 | Swimming : Apart from swimming in the lake itself , Zell am See has an excellent public pool close to the town centre . |
| 29 | Anchor Hotel Comfortable Licensed Hotel close to Promenade and Town Centre . |
| 30 | They have published a list of recommended hotels close to AEA sites and beyond , organised corporate rates with hotels and negotiated preferential rates with Eurodollar for hire cars . |