Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Something like it still seems to be believed by some economists close to Mrs Thatcher . |
| 4 | The Belfast campus comprises two large and well-equipped buildings close to the centre of the city . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's one of the few places close to Washington where you can get lost and still not get hurt , ’ Ashelman said . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There was a clearing among some trees close to the river and a number of two-wheeled carts had been parked there . |
| 9 | Residence Caravelle offers fresh and well-equipped apartments close to the resort , pine woods and a fine sandy beach . |
| 10 | International : Serbian invaders close to taking Muslim centre |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There was some slight discussion whether the British should keep Canada or should choose the large French sugar islands like Martinique and Guadeloupe ; very few politicians close to the centre of power thought of giving Canada back to France , but the issue underlined the fact that Canada was unlikely to provide much revenue for the British treasury directly , and certainly would not provide the amount of revenue that sugar for re-export would give at a time when Britain used for consumption or for manufacture all that her West Indian islands could produce . |
| 13 | Even the BBC admits the Acorn adaptors are expensive at £225 ( and some educationalists close to the MEP scheme complain that they are not buying recent technology ) . |
| 14 | This may explain the interesting siting of some churches close to or inside prehistoric monuments . |
| 15 | Subsoil No vines are planted on the alluvial soils close to the river , but on nearby higher ground Belemnite chalk can be seen as the major subsoil . |
| 16 | According to Pastor Joseph Kasio , a Maasai himself and Project Secretary for the new publication , the Bible will also be accessible to other ethnic groups close to the Maasai who include the Samburu , Rendille and I'Chamus . |
| 17 | ‘ Was it nice ? ’ he said , his dark eyes close to hers . |
| 18 | Similar buildings seem to predominate at Cambridge and Dragonby , and , interestingly , at accepted ‘ village ’ sites like Catsgore , a fact which must be important when trying to define the function and status of individual sites close to the town-village threshold . |
| 19 | But in the two weeks , as they moved slowly north into the forested hills and grassy uplands close to the hill station of Dalat , they had killed between them prime specimens of almost all the groups required for the museum . |
| 20 | In yet others , the females build their individual nests close to one another but , after a few weeks , some abandon their own constructions and join others in building theirs . |
| 21 | With fixed assets close to £1 million and capital and reserves of over £868,000 , there can be little doubt as to the commercial nature of the Dart Valley Railway Plc . |
| 22 | The IBM technique required temperatures close to absolute zero . |
| 23 | They knew all the people entering the hall , and those that occupied seats close to them smiled and spoke to them . |
| 24 | Others , for example the cormorants , gulls and terns , are more coast-bound , feeding offshore in winter but mainly in shallow coastal waters in summer ; they breed in smaller colonies , usually of a few dozen pairs close to good feeding grounds . |
| 25 | With his precision of line , careful musicality and swift little steps close to the ground , Shaw , in ballets like Les Rendezvous , embodied everything that was best about Ashton 's choreography and which made the Royal Ballet unique . |
| 26 | This is a most luxurious , hotel set in large gardens close to a complex of pools . |
| 27 | Altogether the beach group occupied three tables close to Rain and Oliver . |
| 28 | Note that in this case all lines coincide , and so Q branches are often line-like features close to the vibration transition energy ν vjb or ν . |
| 29 | Recently , in vitro peptide phosphorylation assays have suggested that basic residues close to potential DNA-PK sites can inhibit the activity of the enzyme ( 9 ) . |
| 30 | Here The Possessed draws close to the I/We/They/Everybody shifts of The House of the Dead , and the tone of the narrative , which ( Dostoevsky said ) is to save everything , demonstrates its airy yet potent , rather Proustian anecdotal scope . |