Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the industries are placed close to the docks ; they are port oriented . |
| 2 | The indication here is that the caged finch has been placed close to the owl in order to provoke it into prolonged alarm calling that will attract others of its kind . |
| 3 | Instead , he claimed , the United States had access in 1985 to ‘ forty-three naval bases and over seventy airfields , of which a considerable number are situated close to the Soviet border ’ . |
| 4 | For example , of the 60 or more species of copepods found in arctic plankton , some 50 are of Atlantic origin ; only a very few species penetrate from the Pacific , though some of those have been reported close to the Pole ( Brodsky , 1956 ) . |
| 5 | The sympathetic nerves achieve their effects by releasing the hormone noradrenaline from the nerve-tips , which are located close to the organs that they influence . |
| 6 | Equally , uncertainties over delivery timing can be drastically reduced when subcontractors are located close to the parent and the Japanese obsession with inventory control can easily be extended to suppliers . |
| 7 | In addition , three smaller meeting rooms are located close to the hotel 's Business Centre . |
| 8 | No other stars are seen close to the radio position . |
| 9 | We 're brought close to him in a spiritual sense . |
| 10 | ‘ The horse is certainly in good heart and because we are drawn close to Lochsong we are on the side of the track with a strong pace guaranteed . |
| 11 | The sources that ISO will be investigating will generally be clouds of dust in space , with temperatures from a few hundred degrees down to only 30 K. The warmer dust clouds are found close to stars , either in dark nebulae adjacent to stars that have just formed , or in the ejected shells of matter from old stars , called planetary nebulae . |
| 12 | I had been brought close to another sort of despair by my inability to draw blood : a cat with no claws and ineffectual teeth . |
| 13 | For the same reason large-calibre pyroclasts are concentrated close to the site of eruption , whereas ash can be dispersed over distances of hundreds , or even thousands , of kilometres . |
| 14 | The deposits , whose discovery was announced by Command Petroleum on April 2 , 1991 , were believed to be situated close to the proposed route of a 260-km pipeline currently under construction to transport Kutubu oil to the Gulf of Papua . |
| 15 | There are no critical layout requirements although it is suggested that the decoupling capacitor , C1 , be placed close to the supply pins of the microcontroller IC1 . |
| 16 | Compatibility : They are not particularly aggressive corals , and so can be placed close to each other and to other non-aggressive coelenterates such as zoanthids , Xenia pulse corals , bushy soft corals ( Simularia ) and gorgonians . |
| 17 | Thus , language and literature , medicine and physiology , and botany and agriculture could conveniently be placed close to each other . |
| 18 | The greens are tiny and all seem to be located close to , or nearly in , the lake , and the speed of the greens is extremely fast . |
| 19 | These tend to be located close to the company 's headquarters , which , for a foreign-owned multinational company , is unlikely to be in Britain . |
| 20 | In this respect , my analysis can be located close to the ‘ Alternative Economic Strategy ’ ( AES ) — which has been given its most lucid expression by the CSE London Working Group ( 1980 ) — in its acceptance of the need for socialists to offer constructive and credible proposals for regenerating economic growth and reducing unemployment even if these appear to fall short of ‘ true socialism ’ . |
| 21 | The plan stresses that new land for development has to be located close to transport routes , have access to water and draining facilities and be attractive to businesses . |
| 22 | Erm , indeed the first one was why should , why should the new settlement be located close to Greater York , I think the main main ans the answer to that is of course that York is the main centre in population , and employment in the county , by far . |
| 23 | A large bin to be sited close to the lamp standard BQM 4 on the pathway of Baberton Mains Wynd and Baberton Avenue . |
| 24 | Since calls must be made close to a node , then why not simply find a telephone kiosk — must work these days and the cost will only be at the standard rate . |
| 25 | Miniature tie-clip microphones are ideal for location speech recording , as they can be positioned close to the lips of the speaker and so reduce the pick-up of background noise . |
| 26 | In this age of intensive housing it is not uncommon for homes to be positioned close to one another , the divisions between properties being constructed from fences or , ideally , by walls . |
| 27 | If the dykers can be encouraged to begin to build an extension to the west of the present entrance off Avenue Q , their small tent can also be relocated close to this section . |
| 28 | Even more imaginative , not to say fanciful , was the concept of ‘ Battle Zone Portable Launchers ’ , which could be used close to the fighting front . |
| 29 | When ecologists talk of plants needing iron , or animals needing sodium , this is shorthand ; it means that the particular creature must seek out ( or be rooted close to ) some compound that contains the element in question . |
| 30 | But , in his report , Government inspector H Stephens says : ‘ The banging of car doors , the starting of engines and the noise from car alarms would be introduced close to habitable rooms and adjacent to residents ’ gardens which might normally be expected to be both peaceful and quiet . ’ |