Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Backpackers need to keep the weight high and close to the back , but ski-mountaineers and climbers need the weight to be kept lower to increase stability , although weighty things should be kept close to the back . |
| 2 | As the right leg is lifted on the turn , it should remain high and close to the body . |
| 3 | The site must be central , easily accessible and close to parking facilities . |
| 4 | The prison system in England and Wales , then , is creaking and close to collapse . |
| 5 | After all , there has been little in the real world to justify optimism : economic activity has continued to fall — down 2.5% in 1991 and close to 0.8% in 1992 — unemployment is heading for the 3 million mark , business failures in 1992 ran 31% ahead of a year earlier . |
| 6 | What is especially interesting about such systems is the possibility that experiments can be constructed which are sufficiently simple and close to theoretical models that routes to chaos can be studied in detail . |
| 7 | For my part , I feel elated and close to tears . |
| 8 | The tough-guy actor — filming smash hit movie Patriot Games which is released in Britain to-morrow — had to be rescued by emergency crews after a tough underwater fight scene left him exhausted and close to drowning . |
| 9 | Most polar fish live in waters at temperature that are very stable and close to 0°C . |
| 10 | To control the power keep the sail low and close to the water to decrease its effective area and slide one or both feet into the straps whilst lying in the water . |
| 11 | By beating this they could drive themselves through the water but their heavy foreparts must have kept their heads low and close to the bottom . |
| 12 | He had not only cuckolded Richard Sharpe , but in the process he had effectively stolen Sharpe 's fortune , and now he discovered that his enemy was mot lost in France , but alive and close to Brussels . |
| 13 | Name a person whom you would wish to be contacted if you are seriously ill and close to death |
| 14 | Then he said , ‘ I knew an eagle once who was also ill and close to death . |
| 15 | She sounded tense and close to tears . |
| 16 | Apart from whether the weak transmissions from a pair of £25-sets operating on the American Citizens ' Band FM frequency could have penetrated the thick walls of Blake 's cell , which were reinforced with cast-iron segments , with no external aerial and close to the 17 feet-high perimeter wall , there is also the question of how Blake managed to keep a radio in his cell without it once being noticed over six months during which he and his cell were regularly searched . |
| 17 | Tinitus in her ears is the only physical reminder of the violent illness … which left her unconscious and close to death . |
| 18 | I think that 's true what Yona says you know it it is Cos you know I the sort of the political people of the town tend to be councillors who are er men mainly and set in their ways and think that because they 've got the label councillor behind you know b front of their name that they 're they are for life you know it 's And they 're sort of respectable inverted commas members of the community and you know and I mean I hope that out of out of all this I mean it 's it 's a shame it has to happen in such a desperate situation you know because I mean none of us can really feel glad that Because to be on strike is I mean each day is is hard I 'm sure for well I mean I can only say because to be close to people on strike it 's quite a unique thing really for me and i you become so involved and close to people and you realize how hard it is for them . |
| 19 | All Scorpios will be a little tetchy when the Sun in your birth sign is at odds with Saturn on November 4 and close to Pluto your ruler on the 14th . |
| 20 | By now McRae was down to seventh , four minutes adrift and close to tears . |
| 21 | Hitherto , it had been achieved by the male cells swimming through water , a process which demanded that the sexual generation be small and close to the ground . |
| 22 | The Chicontepec oil is onshore and close to infrastructure , but it is dogged with very low productivity sands , and covers such a large area that accurate prediction of the sweet spots is the only way to reduce an onerous number of wells . |
| 23 | He must be both desperate and close to the end to take such an enormous risk . |
| 24 | I crossed wet ground and came to a long , open piece of sand , then went on to a place where the trees had branches that were thick and close to the sand . |
| 25 | Its a bit naff but close to the ground and good for parking . |
| 26 | The other options were a route roughly following the A19 and one which ran parallel and close to the existing power line , skirting the North York Moors National Park . |
| 27 | The reason I have chosen these two books for a comparison is because I always prefer to read books that are either true or close to reality as they bring out more emotions in my reading and at leat I know my feelings towards certain situations in the books have been felt by someone before , whether it may be another reader or the character himself , but in more depth . |
| 28 | The brutal attack by David Makka , 22 , left Susan Lawson , 20 , brain-damaged and close to death , a judge was told yesterday at Newcastle Crown Court . |