Example sentences of "[vb pp] close to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No reasonable person could have objected — nor did they — when , shortly after the death of the Hizbollah bomber , an impressive steel anti-terrorist shield was installed close to No. 10 . |
| 2 | The town is located close to Manchester 's international Ringway Airport . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Hotel is located close to Spaghetti Junction and includes 35 rooms all with TV , tea and coffee making facilities . |
| 5 | Centrally located close to Chinatown and the business district with Orchard Road just a 5 minute drive away , this hotel offers excellent value for money with a choice of good restaurants . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We do not , of course , wish to gloat , having come close to liquidation many times ourselves , but it has to be said , WELL DONE , SIDCOMBE ! |
| 8 | The revolt had come close to success and it may well have shaken Henry II 's confidence in his son 's ability to rule Aquitaine . |
| 9 | However , in contrast to Nicaragua , where the economy has come close to collapse , in El Salvador both the additional costs of the war and increasing indebtedness have been counterbalanced by very large injections of aid from the United States . |
| 10 | Some of the last-gasp attempts to save the Nationalist governments that were considered in Washington — with the wilder arpeggios such as encouraging the fragmentation of China or even , apparently , a series of punitive air strikes against the Chinese communists ( not to mention the sheer fantasy of creating ten new Chinese armies in six months ) — originated in the Far Eastern division of the State Department , and in fact the Administration , says Blum , had come close to re-intervention in the Chinese civil war on the mainland , but backed away at the last minute when it discovered that there was no viable force left to support . |
| 11 | Few Yek were happy at sea , and a ship-borne invasion of Y'frike years earlier had come close to failure at one point because the reinforcements delivered to its shores had been so weakened by the effects of their voyage . |
| 12 | Saudi Arabia has stockpiled close to 30m barrels of the stuff during the first quarter of 1989 ; Iran has been busy filling European storage tanks ; Saudi , Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil has been pouring into America almost as fast as it did in December . |
| 13 | He had grown close to Gerry Gomez since the day he had asked if he could meet his sister at the airport , and they now worked together admirably . |
| 14 | If grown close to fennel , they will cross-pollinate freely , and the resultant seeds will be hybrids between the two . |
| 15 | The success of Albion Mill marked the beginning of the move from the trade 's dependence on small country watermills and windmills , often with only two or three sets of stones , to larger merchant mills built close to centres of corn trading and importing . |
| 16 | Environmentalists contend that the effects on the fragile forest habitat could be disastrous , with numerous rare species of plants and amphibians unique to the area being pushed close to extinction . |
| 17 | But when her letter said how tasty these little organic chaps can be when placed close to carrots , peas and gravy , I should have seen that she was open to contradictions . |
| 18 | Situated close to Brighton Centre , sea and shops . |
| 19 | The 400-bedroom Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza is situated close to Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City . |
| 20 | Stamford must have been one of the religious and academic Meccas of ancient Albion , situated close to Troy , and a place of international pilgrimage for both mystics and scholars . |
| 21 | These small communities are usually situated close to rivers and streams , along the sides of which gardens are cleared from the bush . |
| 22 | A very popular residential 24-track studio , situated close to Belfast . |
| 23 | Situated close to Harrods and just a few doors along Beauchamp Place from Kanga , the dress shop owned by Prince Charles 's confidante Lady Tryon , San Lorenzo has been at the centre of much that has happened around Diana this year . |
| 24 | An attractive and well modernised semi-detached property , quietly situated close to Port Meadow and country walks along the River Thames . |
| 25 | Hannah Dooley was pressed close to Sheldon parry , the born-again television director , crooning softly to herself . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | The manorial laws had been very strict , and villagers had stayed close to home , but now the villeins were becoming tenure farmers , and the yeoman or dalesman farmer , sometimes known as the ‘ statesman ’ in the Lake District , was emerging . |
| 28 | Carolco recently raised close to $100m from several European investors , including Giovanni Agnelli of Fiat . |
| 29 | His large untidy head was set close to shoulders which rubbed against the long lobes of his ears . |
| 30 | 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 . |