Example sentences of "which [verb] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I had paid the farmer off , I started my car , my remaining outpost of another century , and drove along a road which led close to the lake . |
| 2 | litre economy engine , similar to the Corsa 's Eco unit , which produces close to miles per gallon at a constant mph . |
| 3 | The lyrics are pleasantly vague except for the curiously annoyed ‘ Candy Everybody Wants ’ , which veers close to wounded cynicism and nothing much else happens . |
| 4 | A second reason was closely related to this , namely an anthropocentrism which came close to asserting that man could do whatever he liked with creation . |
| 5 | Because their demands were nil , the Masai could be approached in a way which came close to the Colonial Service 's proclaimed ideal of disinterested benevolence . |
| 6 | The idea was to record and tour with the band , but Knopfler saw an essentially fun project with his mates develop into something which came close to getting out of hand . |
| 7 | Tom Peters — the top US management guru — cites the example of the US Harley Davidson motorcycle plant , which came close to being put out of business by Japanese competition some eight years ago . |
| 8 | Two years later , he joined Louis in a war against Holland , which came close to destroying the Protestant republic . |
| 9 | Mercury Communications Ltd , which came close to accepting AT&T Co 's hand in marriage a year or so ago , is backing the US company 's complaint to the US authorities that the UK regulatory system is unsatisfactory because , claims AT&T , the UK has not provided adequate safeguards to prevent British Telecommunications Plc from abusing its monopoly power , and has failed to exercise controls over interconnection services provided by Telecom for rivals , or the company 's pricing policy ‘ in a meaningful way ’ . |
| 10 | After Oxford , Merck joined the staff of Time Out , where she wrote impenetrable reviews and helped to organize the strike which came close to destroying the magazine . |
| 11 | After crossing the stream turn right along the track which passes close to Trepewet Farm . |
| 12 | The village took its name from the Roman road or straet known as the Gartree Road which passes close to the little limestone church of St Giles that now stands all alone on the skyline . |
| 13 | A six-iron second shot reduced the 15th to an easy birdie , he narrowly missed for a two at the next and then finished three , three with first a seven-iron and then a nine-iron which landed close to the flags . |
| 14 | A sound archivist will want a recording which gets close to the sound of the original master-tape . |
| 15 | Her startled eyes absorbed the thick , short , golden-streaked hair swept back from a broad forehead , ears long and narrow as a satyr 's which grew close to a beautifully formed skull , a mouth of unutterable sweetness countered by a long jaw carved out of golden teak faintly blurred by a light stubble , and a chin that jutted in a formidable challenge . |
| 16 | In a discipline like psychology , which insists on the specificity of its vocabulary , procedures and concerns , feminist initiatives which stay close to the traditional discipline are valuable . |
| 17 | Some of the larger aircraft were transferred to the parking area at Amman airport , for a long time the only point from which Iraq could be entered from abroad , as foreign airlines were hesitant about using traditional air corridors which ran close to a war zone . |
| 18 | This problem emerges most clearly in psychology 's relationships with computer-dependent methods , which come close to its ideal of objectivity . |
| 19 | There are some yachts which come close to this spec : the FF boats of Holland ( only 30 and 35ft ) ; the X119 , but I do n't think this is suitable for two and its bulb keel with forward protrusion seems to me to be dangerous in our net-infested waters ; the Dehler db36 is interesting , though ugly and over-designed . |
| 20 | In this century Christianity , too , would produce reform movements in which values close to those of the protestant ethic prevailed . |
| 21 | According to Hulme and Blyth ( 1984 ) , reclaimed peatland in Harris and Lewis is characterised by pastures with Trifolium repens , Holcus lanatus , Agrostis canina and Anthoxanthum , which comes close to this sub-community . |
| 22 | One case which comes close to misrepresentation is English Columbia 's recording of the Introduction and Allegro by Ravel , recorded in late 1923 , which was alleged to be ‘ conducted ’ by the composer . |
| 23 | This is the level of the process of higher education itself , the level which comes close to that of the student experience . |
| 24 | Most recently to date have been experiments on ammonia gas resonantly pumped by CO2 lasers , in which good modulation , and chaos , have been observed in a system which comes close to Ikeda 's original proposal { 18 , 19 } . |
| 25 | Rome 's underground railway , which runs close to the surface between the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine , has agreed to fit the trains with rubber wheels which will virtually eliminate the shaking that the building currently receives . |