Example sentences of "[adv] close to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trent ( Triento in northern Italy ) was within the imperial territory , but sufficiently close to Rome for the papacy to influence events . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ This is the best I have played so close to Wimbledon , ’ confirmed Edberg , and no one was disputing the fact . |
| 5 | They skimmed low , passing so close to Simon that their wings beat at his head . |
| 6 | Only Babylonia has given us a story so close to Genesis that the question of borrowing or of direct influence is seriously considered . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Even so close to shore , the sea is full of the souls of the drowned . |
| 9 | The Southern region , so close to London , attracted nine applicants , among whom the Rank/Associated News-papers/Amalgamated Press group , which became Southern TV , was clearly the strongest . |
| 10 | It seemed unlikely they would have placed a bomb so close to Livingstone Manor , but it was better to be sure than dead . |
| 11 | And in the far distance beckoned the possibility of marriage , a state so close to paradise that he hardly dared imagine it . |
| 12 | ‘ I did n't know I could have such a good time so close to home . |
| 13 | The walking rings started so close to Liessa 's head that she could reach up and touch one . |
| 14 | We never looked to encounter an armed company in the forest , and so close to Leicester . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Some regard it as so close to bribery it should be banned . |
| 17 | I suppose it was a little thoughtless of me to allow my scalpel to flash and flicker quite so close to Rory O'Hagan 's fly buttons . |
| 18 | The Germans were also exploring the quality of resistance in the North , and looking on Scotland , with its coasts so close to Scandinavia , as a possible ‘ soft option ’ for raids and attacks to the south . |
| 19 | On the one hand , his invasiveness of Johnson triggers an immediate cringe : on the other , were not Boswell so crass so frequently , his readers could not get so close to Johnson . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She had come so close to death . |
| 22 | I do n't much care which , ’ said Fenella , who did not really want Caspar to ride off and leave her alone out here , but who was not going to get so close to Nuadu and then ride away and leave him . |
| 23 | Khrushchev could never forgive him for the cruelties and stupidities that brought Russia so close to defeat by Hitler . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's a terrible thing to happen so close to Christmas . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But could I get an appointment so close to Christmas ? ’ |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The ‘ milliseconds ’ pulsar actually spins once every 1½ milliseconds , tantalisingly close to Tipler 's limit . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | For some time threats to governments will continue to come primarily from those already close to power . |