Example sentences of "come close to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not , of course , wish to gloat , having come close to liquidation many times ourselves , but it has to be said , WELL DONE , SIDCOMBE ! |
| 2 | The revolt had come close to success and it may well have shaken Henry II 's confidence in his son 's ability to rule Aquitaine . |
| 3 | However , in contrast to Nicaragua , where the economy has come close to collapse , in El Salvador both the additional costs of the war and increasing indebtedness have been counterbalanced by very large injections of aid from the United States . |
| 4 | Some of the last-gasp attempts to save the Nationalist governments that were considered in Washington — with the wilder arpeggios such as encouraging the fragmentation of China or even , apparently , a series of punitive air strikes against the Chinese communists ( not to mention the sheer fantasy of creating ten new Chinese armies in six months ) — originated in the Far Eastern division of the State Department , and in fact the Administration , says Blum , had come close to re-intervention in the Chinese civil war on the mainland , but backed away at the last minute when it discovered that there was no viable force left to support . |
| 5 | Few Yek were happy at sea , and a ship-borne invasion of Y'frike years earlier had come close to failure at one point because the reinforcements delivered to its shores had been so weakened by the effects of their voyage . |
| 6 | They were singing a folk-song , simple but moving , and Erika came close to tears . |
| 7 | Evelyn came close to Newman , dipped her head sideways . |
| 8 | Catherine came close to Morton and let her head droop on his shoulder . |
| 9 | Scathach came close to Tallis and they curled up together , her face buried in the fur collar of his clothing , his arms reaching into the warmth below her cloak . |
| 10 | He came close to Tallis , his red hair curling from below the fur hood , his eyes wide and searching . |
| 11 | ‘ The only time I came close to lobbying was when I asked Dave Mannion , a friend for a long time , to tell me if he thought I 'd outlived my usefulness here , then I would slip quietly away . |
| 12 | Mellor , it will be recalled , was the unfortunate minister charged with turning the pig 's ear of Margaret Thatcher 's commercial broadcast policy into a silk purse — a miracle he came close to performing . |
| 13 | This entailed the loss of about 3,000 posts with some universities shedding 25 per cent of their staff ; some departments were closed and a number of institutions came close to bankruptcy . |
| 14 | Chilperic 's wish to appear as a cultivated monarch is not in question ; he wrote poetry , however badly , and he showed some interest in such issues as the alphabet , to which he wished to add four letters , and in theology , where he came close to heresy , when he decided to abolish the distinctions between the persons of the Trinity . |
| 15 | The situation came close to manslaughter , and by its overt violence and the occupation of the assailant it is an exception . |
| 16 | In 1983/84 , it came close to collapse after making heavy losses on loans to an Indian commodity group named Esal , which was involved in the subsequent collapse of Johnson Matthey . |
| 17 | Other MPs who came close to defeat were the Militant supporter Mr Pat Wall ( Bradford North ) , and Mr Ron Brown ( Leith ) , the left-winger who had the whip withdrawn for a month for dropping the Mace . |
| 18 | After Farooq 's assassination and the subsequent shootings , both India and Pakistan initiated substantial and aggressive troop movements , and The Hindu of May 31 reported that the two countries " came close to war " on May 22 . |
| 19 | However , in that year , the scheme came close to disaster when nearly 20 per cent of the breed was found to be infected with brucellosis ( in comparison with a national rate of less than 5 per cent ) . |
| 20 | It was a memorable flight because the wings iced over , forcing the pilot to dive , and left Lord Aldington feeling that ‘ we came close to death ’ . |
| 21 | He remained with Vivienne , the bank , and years of exhaustion in which he came close to death . |
| 22 | A SURGEON told yesterday how stabbed policewoman Leslie Harrison came close to death as his team battled to save her . |
| 23 | He came close to death and is still trying to come to terms with the attack . |
| 24 | As his face came close to Edward 's , his breath hit him in a shocking wave . |
| 25 | In the beginning , more than fifteen years ago , when she was much slimmer and wore flared trousers , she seemed to enter a magnetic field whenever she came close to Tom . |
| 26 | You could just see them at low water and er that was one of the danger points but I 've never seen ships coming close to Skerrymor at all . |
| 27 | The division had a good year in 1992 , with results coming close to budget . |
| 28 | At the end of 1987 they had failed to reach the semi-finals of the World Cup and then played two drawn series against India and Pakistan , in the latter case coming close to defeat before squeezing a two-wicket victory to square the rubber . |
| 29 | It was coming close to midsummer , and a time when every man had more than enough work on his own land ; but Bishop Hrolf , rendered pentecostal amid the dusty glory of his chosen element , dispensed his rota of tasks with a bone-clear , indisputable justice that only the hardier ever disputed , and then under plain fear of excommunication . |
| 30 | But it does n't really come close to Rangers . |