Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bakker also argued that the brontosaur footprints found in the 1930s in the Cretaceous Texas limestone showed left and right footprints close to the trackway centreline , hinting that they walked upright . |
| 2 | He thus comes close to Formalist/structuralist theory in denying the referential function of poetry , but differs significantly from it in his identification of the emotive with the poetic use of language ; for Jakobson , it will be remembered , the emotive or what Jakobson calls the conative and the poetic are quite distinct . |
| 3 | Empson 's work thus comes close to the theories discussed in the last chapter , which approach the literary text through its linguistic form ; it differs from most of these , however , in being less systematic and theoretical , and in particular in being less influenced by developments in modern linguistics . |
| 4 | By the second year the young orang is becoming more independent , though it still keeps close to its mother . |
| 5 | A figure in a bronze helmet , both times a good way off , and both times close to the standing walls . |
| 6 | The book also moves close to a highly critical analysis of science and yet never becomes anti-science , only anti-scientific : Jones 's own delight in physics enthusiastically drawing the sting out of his own criticism . |
| 7 | IF THERE is such a thing as theatre for the people this comedy thriller probably comes close to delivering the goods . |
| 8 | The mass of Mercury was first determined from its influence on the orbit of Eros , an asteroid which was discovered in 1898 and which often passes close to Mercury . |
| 9 | By mid-September , according to figures released yesterday , subscriptions to Izvestia , the government daily , which now sells close to 11 million copies , were only 61 per cent of the level 12 months before . |
| 10 | Consequently , in the transition epoch , the case of the imaginary form inevitably comes close to the typical case . |
| 11 | No other country can boast the same range of masterworkshop , workshop , village and nomadic rugs , and none even comes close to the diversity of Persian design . |
| 12 | The walk outlined here comes close to being a true wilderness area , being lonely , beautiful and sometimes precarious . |
| 13 | Even La Scala , where an opening-night stall seat goes for £500 , rarely comes close to breaking even . |