Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The marathon passes close to the City bomb zone . |
| 2 | Most accidents happen when a cable break occurs close to the ground . |
| 3 | ’ In Leapor 's poem the observing persona draws close to the nymphs and swains , even recording the effects of the cold on their fingers . |
| 4 | The penis stirs close to me , and I give it a wet nose . |
| 5 | This emphasis on individualism and self-esteem comes close to traditional male-oriented therapeutic programmes . |
| 6 | The convection divides into a series of layers ; nearly all the variation of each quantity occurs close to the edges of the layers . |
| 7 | As the girl dances close to me I can smell her perfume and all that has gone before is completely forgotten ; the slit trenches , the mosquitoes , the wounded and my dead comrades . |
| 8 | But in relative terms there can be no doubt that British broadcasting comes close to the Public Service Ideal while the British press comes nowhere near it . |
| 9 | An eruption originates close to the wall , where there are regions , separated in the z-direction , of fluid moving faster than average downstream and fluid moving more slowly than average . |
| 10 | The administration 's left hand may continue to fight it as a quota measure , while its right comes close to endorsing quotas to break the glass ceiling . |
| 11 | The snow hook is actually on the end of the tow line so that in the unlikely event of the karabiner unhooking — as it did once on me — — the hook stays close to you giving you an outside chance of holding on to the team . |
| 12 | Another way of asking whether cloze gets close to measuring comprehension is to consider what would happen if the sentences in a passage were randomly reordered . |
| 13 | This argument comes close to a constitutional paradox — that people who are protesting against the fairness of the political system may find themselves convicted of serious offences because their mode of protest is a realistic one . |
| 14 | Digital television comes close to reality |
| 15 | A male settles close to a female and identifies himself by vibrating his wings to the rhythm of his love song . |
| 16 | Starting in Greater London , it aims to move into main south east population concentrations by early 1994 and its licence requires close to national coverage by 2000 . |
| 17 | The river rises close to the source of that other famous Sutherland salmon stream , the Naver , but Brora flows eastwards , collecting in the waters of its main tributary , the Black Water , at Balnacoil , then hurrying through Loch Brora , down to the cold , grey North Sea . |
| 18 | These proved to be Stenurus globicephalae , and they were also present in much greater numbers in the pterygoid air sinuses close to the middle ear cavity ( see Figure ) . |
| 19 | Babur leans close to Claire and whispers in her ear : ‘ Hippy . ’ |
| 20 | Nu is equal to 1 when the fluid is at rest and greater than 1 when it is convecting ( Section 22.1 ) , and it is apparent that the onset of motion occurs close to the predicted value of Ra . |
| 21 | When the interceptor gets close to its target , it is used as a second radar receiver . |
| 22 | Defence is provided in West Germany by armed forces whose number totals close to half a million men and women . |
| 23 | In these occasional pieces , he is revealed as a psychological critic whose apparent ability to immerse himself in another poet 's personality comes close to an act of clairvoyance . |
| 24 | This compares with Citibank 's total loans to Brazil , Mexico , Argentina and Venezuela of $10.3 billion ; meaning the bank comes close to owing more money to Latin Americans than it is owed . |
| 25 | The more time another male spends close to the Female , the more the courting male pecks at the cloaca . |
| 26 | Throughout its early life , the calf stays close to its mother , positioning itself above the midline and forward of her dorsal fin . |
| 27 | Colder fluid moves close to the wall to replace the fluid in an eruption . |
| 28 | No other poet in the century comes close to this representation . |
| 29 | The other area which is given detailed attention in the Protocol is that of responsibility for costs and expenses ; the text comes close to adopting the principles used in the Hague Convention , but practice is rather different . |
| 30 | Whatever sympathy one might feel for the restaurateur in the present case ( or for any other defendant who might suffer economic loss , social ostracism , shame or intimidation as a result of publication of details pending charges which may or may not result in his conviction ) nothing in the present case comes close to satisfying Lord Diplock 's test . |