Example sentences of "come [adv] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Animation Works Interaction combines sound ( if your PC is MPC compatible ) , graphics , and animation to come somewhere close to the ultimate Multimedia package . |
| 2 | Galadriel Hopkins had rarely come so close to begging . |
| 3 | That Ramprakash should have come so close to being suspended for his Fenner 's folly was sad but instructive . |
| 4 | She had come so close to death . |
| 5 | Or simply because they had come so close to rescuing him ? |
| 6 | Majority foreign ownership was not permitted under Argentinian law , and the fact that the Iberia stake had now come so close to the maximum threshold , was seen as imperilling the whole privatization process . |
| 7 | She had come so close to losing the man she loved . |
| 8 | It was the manifest failure of the Bolsheviks to retain the confidence of the masses , their resort to brutal coercion , which enabled the openly reactionary Whites to come so close to overthrowing them . |
| 9 | After the Ken Noakes episode in her life , she had never allowed anyone to come so close to her . |
| 10 | However , Mr Murdoch has come dangerously close to an edge over which other debt-happy Australian entrepreneurs have already tumbled . |
| 11 | The most famous of these meetings — that held in 1155 and attended by the count of Flanders , the duke of Burgundy , the counts of Troyes and Nevers , in addition to the lords of the royal demesne — provided the occasion for Louis VII to come as close to legislating as any twelfth-century French or English king was to do . |
| 12 | Why should we assume the so-called contented majority has come even close to fulfilling its aspirations ? |
| 13 | Nixon 's ambitions were to crash on the rock of Watergate , but even without that disaster it is most unlikely that he would have come even close to fulfilling his mandate , In that , he would not , by any means , have been alone . |
| 14 | Roosevelt , at the beginning of the 1930s and at the height of World War II , may have briefly approached such a position of pre-eminence , but none of his successors has come even close to such a situation . |
| 15 | But a crucial ingredient in their success was the fielding of the team ( with Bland at the forefront ) and if Jonty Rhodes can inspire his team to come even close to such heights then the South African team of the 1990s may well go one step further than their illustrious predecessors . |
| 16 | Similar polls conducted by various newspapers became notorious for their frequent and lamentable failures to come even close to accurate predictions of electoral outcomes . |
| 17 | Brabham had come quite close to the championship in I975 , and in Reutemann and Pace it had two first-line drivers of the highest quality . |
| 18 | Some government statements have come perilously close to saying ‘ we can not afford old people ’ and those who care for old people must not be diverted from a moral stand by economic filibustering . |
| 19 | Whoever had struck her had come perilously close to her eye . |
| 20 | Neither Socialist nor right-wing governments have come remotely close to threatening the monarchy , demonstrating the relative institutional strengths of the political world and the privileged , quasi-magical world of the Court . |
| 21 | If you do use wide-angle , be careful not to come too close to your subject , as this can produce odd distortion effects . |
| 22 | He was drawn to the traditions of Sephardism , he had once explained ; that rigorous and secluded tradition appealed to his own sensibility , in the same way that " free-thinking " Jews seemed to him to come too close to the rational Unitarianism which he despised . |
| 23 | Those of you who trained under a very autocratic system , dominated by a strictly imposed hierarchy where nurses came somewhere close to the bottom of the pyramid , are likely to find the concept of accountability quite daunting . |
| 24 | As they came rather close to the dash , they had extra stringers above the normal ones , to protect passengers mounting the stairs from passing traffic . |
| 25 | Predictably , though , there was little resemblence between this defeated Liverpool side and the one that came so close to being knocked out of the FA Cup in the semi-final against Portsmouth at Highbury . |
| 26 | The first major success of the year went to Ian Horrox who succeeded on the Kilnsey route he came so close to finishing last year . |
| 27 | They came so close to doing that . |
| 28 | The adventurous plan came so close to working and certainly won Ipswich a host of new admirers . |
| 29 | The Hudson 's Bay Company was so deeply involved in the struggle with the French in North America , and came so close to being overwhelmed , that nobody stepped forward to try to take its place . |
| 30 | Although Palmer 's theory of the physics of colour was mistaken ( he held there were three discrete forms of light ) , it is remarkable that this entrepreneur and tradesman came so close to a modern account of the physiology of colour vision . |