Example sentences of "[be] come close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are coming close to the idea of war , not merely as something justifiable under certain circumstances , but as something capable of being holy . |
| 2 | Italy seems to be coming close to that point of no return ; it is rapidly exhausting its reserves of international goodwill as well as its reserves of foreign currency . |
| 3 | Cities still devoured their populations , though the British , being the oldest of the industrial era , were coming close to reproducing themselves , i.e. to grow without the constant and massive blood transfusion of immigration . |
| 4 | And I actually think it is coming close to a professional slur on Mr to suggest that he ca n't take an independent view . |
| 5 | British fascism was to come close to being rationalized as the political revolt of the romantic imagination in the twentieth century . |
| 6 | She was coming close to him now . |
| 7 | There was good reason for him to remain at the helm now , too : the wind was freshening and veering , so that it was coming close to dead astern . |
| 8 | It was coming close to midsummer , and a time when every man had more than enough work on his own land ; but Bishop Hrolf , rendered pentecostal amid the dusty glory of his chosen element , dispensed his rota of tasks with a bone-clear , indisputable justice that only the hardier ever disputed , and then under plain fear of excommunication . |
| 9 | Well he had actually retired from the police force , he 'd been cited and he 'd been cleared , but he was actually , as it turned out later , practising paedophilia and as he realized that in fact the investigation was coming close to him , he shot himself |