Example sentences of "[adv] close to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So to lower the cost of capital and raise the firm 's value , should you not fill your boots with it , at least until you get so close to bankruptcy that shareholders and creditors start to demand higher returns to balance the risk ? |
| 2 | Not since the Second World War had Congress remained in session so close to election day , and with mid-term elections on Nov. 6 rapidly approaching , a compromise budget was at last finally agreed . |
| 3 | Only Babylonia has given us a story so close to Genesis that the question of borrowing or of direct influence is seriously considered . |
| 4 | The game was already lost in Berne when Gough went and I think the reason for that was that the Scots had failed to find the fire that brought them so close to success in Sweden . |
| 5 | Even so close to shore , the sea is full of the souls of the drowned . |
| 6 | And in the far distance beckoned the possibility of marriage , a state so close to paradise that he hardly dared imagine it . |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't know I could have such a good time so close to home . |
| 8 | If you can get so close to barbel , with or without them knowing it , you should take the opportunity to study how they use the available cover to sneak under ; how they move like silent wraiths across the bottom , and how they rake over the gravel on the bottom with their barbules . |
| 9 | Some regard it as so close to bribery it should be banned . |
| 10 | We have arrived at chapter 22 , but before we deal with it in detail , we must look quickly at another story that lies between Isaac 's birth and his coming so soon and so close to death . |
| 11 | She had come so close to death . |
| 12 | Khrushchev could never forgive him for the cruelties and stupidities that brought Russia so close to defeat by Hitler . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's a terrible thing to happen so close to Christmas . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But could I get an appointment so close to Christmas ? ’ |
| 15 | And all I know is he 's getting literally close to home and he works for you , if you include disabling your barmen in the conditions of employment , that is . ’ |
| 16 | Granting that the Beowulf reference , though tantalisingly close to unambiguity , can not be unequivocally accepted as a primary source for Hercule Poirot , the directness of the next reference brooks no denial . |
| 17 | We climbed eight pitches of glassy ice through the storm and at nightfall emerged on the summit ridge , already close to exhaustion and chilled to the bone . |
| 18 | For some time threats to governments will continue to come primarily from those already close to power . |
| 19 | In practice , however , the majority of employers that have equalised upwards ( i.e. instead of reducing the retirement age for men ) are at this stage allowing women the option to take their pension early without reductions , instead of obliging those already close to retirement to prolong their working life . |
| 20 | ‘ Youthful folly ’ struck unpleasantly close to home . |
| 21 | Er in fact I would probably think that erm having looked at some of the results recently I would think that that 's going to be somewhere close to average now . |
| 22 | He wanted to spend some time quietly in the church , ’ he added in a vain hope that a confidence so dangerously close to intimacy , to his job as priest , might flatter her , might even silence curiosity . |
| 23 | Packaged in a disturbingly brave grey sleeve ( depicting the rear regions of a naked angst ridden , shorn haired young man ) it verged dangerously close to Factory 's moderne Savilleion artwork . |
| 24 | I continued along a path over the bluffs following a waymarked nature trail , where the main animal life seemed to be a few pregnant sheep blowing about dangerously close to death on the rocks below . |
| 25 | In 1975 when Jock Stein was almost killed in a car crash , he lay in a Dumfries hospital dangerously close to death with a fractured skull . |
| 26 | A sense of perspective can also be undermined in the other direction — is not pride in performance sometimes dangerously close to obsession ? |
| 27 | Twice eighteen month old Pickle dragged himself home close to death with the noose pulled tight around his neck |
| 28 | They must have been waiting in a car , as neither wore an overcoat and both were suddenly there smack in front of me , blocking the pavement , tantalizingly close to home . |
| 29 | One tester described the SL 's cabin as ‘ implausibly close to perfection ’ , and for drivers under six foot , that is exactly right . |
| 30 | Abney Park in North London was a convenient site for the Titford family — fairly close to home , extremely spacious , and with a certain degree of Nonconformist tradition . |