Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The breakdown of a laminar jet usually starts quite close to the orifice , where the velocity profile still depends on the details of orifice geometry and the flow upstream of it . |
| 2 | Since periodic orbits can contain any finite number of symbols which repeat , it is clear that we can find a periodic orbit which passes arbitrarily close to any other trajectory in the strange invariant set . |
| 3 | The new results suggest that these galaxies undergo intermittent outbursts as a companion passes particularly close to them . |
| 4 | I mean , can you think of any other situation , Pop , when a man gets so close to a woman except when he 's actually making love to her ? ’ |
| 5 | But , when he gets too close to any dog he growls and barks . |
| 6 | Alarm messages appear on the screen if the chase car gets too close to , or too far from , the lead car . |
| 7 | Women can similarly become inwardly cold when a man gets too close to them . |
| 8 | Keep bulk feedstuffs as close to the farmyard as possible |
| 9 | Significantly , he chose a conference of Trade Union Executives meeting on January 5th to announce the Government 's commitment to war aims curiously close to those just announced by the Labour Party . |
| 10 | But since such progress is conceived as immanent to musical history itself , independent of variants of musical practice , social usage and reception , the theory moves dangerously close to a hypostasis of technique ; at the very least it confines the relationship between musical and social structures to the level of the longue durée , since at that level society is ‘ encapsulated ’ in music , while in between , music 's ‘ autonomous unfoldment … follows the social dynamics without a glance or any direct communication ’ ( ibid : 206–7 ) , still less putting itself at the service of particular social subjects . |
| 11 | In fact it comes remarkably close to a conceptualisation of Susan Brownmiller 's famous assertion that ’ Rape is a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear . ’ |
| 12 | Our model predicts that such an object disrupts so close to the surface that its fragments crater the surface as if from a coherent object , consistent with the appearance of Meteor Crater . |
| 13 | Although real operational amplifiers can never provide such properties , a modern operational amplifier formed within a single chip of silicon comes impressively close to meeting the ideal specification . |
| 14 | Nothing in life is perfect , nor is it desirable that anything should be ; but this book comes as close to a perfect one-volume reference on the USSF as is humanly possible . |
| 15 | It also rejected the Crown 's argument that the issue of consent should be left to the jury — in the same way as the question of dishonesty is left to them in theft cases — but its actual decision comes fairly close to this position . |
| 16 | This may at first be simple ‘ draw writing ’ but as they develop and learn more about how written language works , their writing comes increasingly close to standard adult systems . |
| 17 | But , because the scope for personal development within Sainsbury 's is on a par with the very best , the risk factor comes nowhere close to cancelling out the enormous and lasting advantages . |
| 18 | In its full-page and horrendously expensive advertisements in the national press , and now ( the latest manifestation ) in a booklet with a cover that at only a few metres distance looks like gold-tooled morocco , it comes perilously close to transgressing those rules of the Advertising Standards Authority that ensure that all ads are honest , fair , accurate , unimpeachable and altogether above reproach . |
| 19 | It comes perilously close to making the Attorney , in effect , a political censor , an official to whom the media can go , cap in hand , with the question " please Sir , may we publish this ? " |