Example sentences of "[vb infin] close to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could be proud of such an achievement because the tide could flow in and out , the natural environment would be enhanced , and the flora and fauna would flourish close to the heart of our great capital city . |
| 2 | It can leave the Tower if driven out in this way , but it must stay close to the outside walls . |
| 3 | The three-lane motorway will run close to the existing line of the A74 between the Annan to Eaglesfield Road ( B722 ) in the north and Kirkpatrick Fleming in the south where it will join the section of motorway recently completed between Kirkpatrick Fleming and Gretna . |
| 4 | You can approach close to the beaches and also cross the reef where necessary . ’ |
| 5 | They would also pass close to the centre of the main sweet-water aquifer of the Jerusalem region . |
| 6 | ‘ If we are to reach the Fire Court , we must pass close to the City of Gruagach . |
| 7 | do n't get close to a fire — you ca n't feel the heat and it can easily burn you . |
| 8 | Nobody would ever get close to a man like Felipe de Santis and she refused to acknowledge that she wanted to get close . |
| 9 | Even given that these are projected figures , it would take a massive error to even get close to a break-even , never mind a situation whereby track costs were not covered . |
| 10 | Such places — places where one can get close to the earth spirit — would have been very special to ancient peoples . |
| 11 | Inland , you can get close to the countryside with a few days on a farm or perhaps pamper yourself with a luxury hotel . |
| 12 | Sharpe spurred towards the nearest Belgians , but before he could even get close to the battalion a French column burst out of the rye and the Belgians , without even firing a volley , turned and ran . |
| 13 | In the mid 1960s a dominant group of Kikuyu , who were close to the Kenyatta family , determined that neither Odinga nor Mboya would come close to the presidency . |
| 14 | Having said that , lately I 've heard him and he 's trying to get back some of his fire , but the originals , the ‘ Disraeli Gears ’ album and the Bluesbreakers … he does n't come close to the fire that 's on those songs any more . |
| 15 | ‘ But at least I could come close to the song of electricity . |
| 16 | When they hatch they will try to follow and come close to the first slowly moving object they see which is the right sort of colour and more or less chicken-sized . |
| 17 | Average cost pricing or two-part tariffs may come close to the socially efficient output while allowing the monopolist to survive as a private company . |
| 18 | He wo n't come close to the lodge . |
| 19 | If , as recent work has suggested ( Ch.1 ) , the sustained growth of population from the doldrums of the fifteenth century began to affect the economy in the early years of the sixteenth century rather than previously , this would come close to the period when the volume of criticism of enclosures became more vocal and more explicit . |
| 20 | Gravity has a similar effect ; a spaceship could skip close to a black hole for what would seem to be a short period of time and then emerge to find that , for the rest of the Universe , millions of years had passed . |