Example sentences of "be [adv] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may take only twenty minutes or as long as two hours before they find the monkeys and are sufficiently close to them to launch an attack . |
| 2 | Provided , in other words , that they are sufficiently close to one another in the space of all possible structures . |
| 3 | Other people , who are perhaps close to , or even at the right weight , are still not necessarily eating well . |
| 4 | The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policeman can see them . |
| 5 | As relations between Edward II and Charles IV of France deteriorated in April 1324 , Queen Isabella was urged to use her influence with the French monarch by asking him to ‘ have regard for us and our children who are so close to him , and for the alliances between them , and especially for the alliance made in our own person , which all the world knows was concluded to nourish and sustain peace and love between the two kingdoms , and to prevent wars and disputes ’ . |
| 6 | Yet although you are so close to the beach , you are actually in the town , within five minutes level walk or less of the shops , licensed bars , dancing , putting green , restaurants . |
| 7 | Our own children are now so far removed from danger , at least of the primal kind , and these Masai are so close to it , that you would expect them to be cowed and fearful . |
| 8 | Alternatively , we may say that the plates are so close to each other ( as it would be in a practical diode ) that the electron beam has n't got a chance to spread . |
| 9 | If Labour Members abandon the trusts , which , from the terminology that I have quoted , are so close to their own policy , would they but acknowledge the fact , it is not the Conservative party that would be the loser but the delivery of patient care in Scotland . |
| 10 | Some have connections which are so close to education that they can be regarded as falling inside the group of like-minded supporters . |
| 11 | ‘ Now we are so close to achieving their ends . |
| 12 | Erm and in fact more that and all our more valuable pieces are marked because they are so close to the original that er you have to mark them |
| 13 | And , of course , you and Mr Sheldrake are so close to each other that it 's ridiculous to be in opposition . |
| 14 | He shook his head , and really whetted her appetite by hinting , ‘ We are so close to it , we could walk there in less than ten minutes . ’ |
| 15 | It 's the fact that we are so close to America , that we 've got this highly dynamic American sound that we had in the sixties in this country with the kind of dynamism in the sixties and the desire to sort of break through all kinds of formal barriers — I mean the mini skirt period , you know what I mean and in certain cities , like Liverpool , where this feeling of it is necessary to break through barriers to create this kind of dynamic sort of extremely vital sound . |
| 16 | Nonetheless , it may be sobering for the European governments considering stockpiles that the private sector has already beaten them to it — and that the stores of the materials themselves are tantalisingly close to the industries that , some day , may be desperate for supplies . |
| 17 | ‘ Having been so close to winning the title in the past few years I thought this was going to be my chance but the draws have just dried up and I ca n't seem to get near fish , ’ said Dave from Hednesford , Staffordshire . |
| 18 | When you have been so close to death and even closer to permanent serious injury then every day becomes a bonus . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I have never been so close to resigning from the force , ’ Morton said slowly . |
| 20 | He , who had been so close to the innermost of inner circles since succeeding Hankey in 1938 , was receiving only fragmentary details of the inner Cabinet 's war-planning , despite having to advise the Chancellor on the financial implications . |
| 21 | She had never been so close to a young man before . |
| 22 | A Legal Adviser should not have been so close to an operation . |
| 23 | She had been so close to her mother it was as though part of her self had died . |
| 24 | The Treasury had been so close to running out of money prior to the passage of legislation that it had postponed an auction of $40,000 million in government securities . |
| 25 | What could she say to someone she had been so close to , had spoken so bitterly to ? |
| 26 | Assuming , still , that Ermold wrote to please , it follows that Hugh and Matfrid must have been especially close to Judith in 826 , which in turn implies that she had indeed been successfully cultivating Lothar 's sympathy for the interests of herself and her son . |
| 27 | The genes , then , are physically close to their extended phenotypic effects , as close as genes ordinarily are to their conventional phenotypes . |
| 28 | Despite the relatively large range of experimental exothermicities , enthalpy and entropy work in a compensating manner to give free energies for single strand helix formation that are generally close to zero at 300 K. Free energy costs per rotor in double stranded DNA and RNA are consistent with these limiting values ; large stacking exothermicities result in a large cost in free energy for restricting a rotation that , in the upper limit ( 5.4 kJ mol -1 per rotor averaged over 12 rotors for G-C on C-G stacking ) , bears comparison with the values reported by Page & Jencks [ 20 ] for isomerisation reactions in small molecules involving severe restrictions , and at the lower limits ( 1.9 kJ mol -1 per rotor averaged over 12 rotors for A-U on A-U stacking ) with entropy changes in the melting of organic crystals [ 6 ] that are held together by weak intermolecular interactions . |
| 29 | It 's a mite premature to forecast global success or world domination , but Hyperhead are already close to being essential . |
| 30 | Our short term aim is that our business is split 50 per cent North Sea oil , 25 per cent international oil and 25 per cent non-oil related activities and we are already close to reaching these targets . |