Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Baül poet is fully conscious that his value in the marketplace of the world is pitifully small ; that he is neither wealthy nor learned , yet he has this great compensation , for he has come close to his lover 's heart . |
| 3 | Jack Delano believes that enriching the human spirit in some measure is the purpose of all art , and if any of his work has come close to doing that for anyone , then he and his wife , who sadly died in 1982 , would be more than satisfied . |
| 4 | Equally predictably , given the third party payment problem , the cost of those publicly funded has come close to running out of control . |
| 5 | I have given that estimate before , and the hon. Member for Blackburn is reported to have said on the strength of a newspaper article that we both read : ’ the Secretary of State has come close to misleading the House of Commons over the numbers required . ’ |
| 6 | But Jade Pike has come close to dying many times in the past year . |
| 7 | The 36-year old current British Open champion hungers after the US Open title , which he has come close to winning on a handful of occasions in the last five years . |
| 8 | However , the club has come close to the brink , surviving winding up orders . |
| 9 | Apart from anything else , the venture represents real regeneration in a city where talk of regeneration has come close to being a growth industry . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Unix International has distributed close to 4,000 copies of its highly critical stop-Microsoft ‘ NT versus Unix ’ white paper since its publication in December ( UX No 413 ) . |
| 12 | Except for a Japanese joint venture , Russell 's group does not manufacture in the Far East , and sales there can come from either US or European production , but generally Morton prefers to manufacture close to the customer for improved service and to reduce tariff costs . |
| 13 | If someone gets stung close to a bee 's nest , they are likely to find themselves quickly surrounded . |
| 14 | Most of them are indeed trying to pull the ‘ off with the old , on with the new ’ wife replacement technique but they are in such an emotional mess that they subconsciously drive away any woman who tries to get close to them . |
| 15 | I always think that if someone tries to get close to me they must want something from me . |