Example sentences of "something close to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a miserable business pining for those who had gone and she thought back with something close to horror of the unhappiness she had endured while wishing herself elsewhere . |
| 2 | She looked at Scott , something close to pity in her voice . |
| 3 | Gerald Seymour-Strachey looked at him with something close to outrage on his face : ‘ No , no — nothing of the kind . |
| 4 | The first time he 'd seen her — all those years ago — he 'd felt something close to panic . |
| 5 | It was a measure of the strains of the day , or perhaps of the relief at finding the sympathetic Theodora , that the Archdeacon was precipitated into something close to indiscretion . |
| 6 | Under his scheme they would be elected by something close to Britain 's first-past-the-post system . |
| 7 | Indeed DNA molecules , whose capacity for storing information has already impressed us , are something close to crystals themselves . |
| 8 | Indeed , the little Peugeot has achieved something close to cult status , a point highlighted by the eye-catching TV commercial for the XS . |
| 9 | The young man glared at Harry with something close to resentment . |
| 10 | Guynemer came to be accorded something close to deification . |
| 11 | He glares at Eva with something close to hatred . |
| 12 | Such futile efforts can only bring something close to contempt and suspicion among the millions of human beings who crave nothing more than a simple faith based on a credible ‘ god ’ . |
| 13 | Something close to shipwreck fever erupted over its cargo . |
| 14 | The MOUTH vowel [ P9 ] is especially interesting because it shows all the possible variants , from the extreme basilectal variant which occurs before /n/ in sound [ ] through the JC/JE variant [ ] and [ ] , something close to RP in down [ ] to the Cockney variant in [ ] twice . |