Example sentences of "close [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not tall , close to minimum height in fact , but he was stocky , and he made up for lack of inches with a pressing , high-speed manner which sometimes made people think he was all noise and movement and no intelligence . |
| 2 | The events of August 1969 in Derry brought Northern Ireland close to civil war and the killing of thirteen anti-internment demonstrators in the city on 30 January 1972 precipitated the imposition of direct rule and the end of the Stormont parliament . |
| 3 | He was found close to overhead electricity railway cables . |
| 4 | By January , virtually all foreign securities had been sold , but India still came extremely close to technical default on interest payments on its foreign debt . |
| 5 | Go forward on track through field ; in next ( second field ) , proceed close to right edge , at end of field which is to right and beyond the hedgerow , turn right on track which leads down through gates and up left side of the third field . |
| 6 | Handel wrote the Messiah in London , where he lived in a house close to present-day King 's Cross Station , five years after suffering a severe stroke , and it received its first performance in Dublin in 1742 . |
| 7 | The meetings are only the most visible signs of a thaw in the relationship — previously something close to undeclared war — between the Yard and the Labour authorities since Sir Peter 's accession in 1987 . |
| 8 | Monica Zipper of the Monix label , who won the recent More Dash Than Cash fashion prize , recently came close to financial disaster before being saved by a big manufacturer . |
| 9 | However , coupled with a European high-speed rail network , owned by an EC track authority with both national and private operators running trains on it , the high-speed travel market in Europe could well come as close to perfect contestability as anything . |
| 10 | Souther Air will happily fly you as a passenger in their Islander from Invercargill to their own airstrip close to tiny Halfmoon Bay , the only township . |
| 11 | He thus comes close to Formalist/structuralist theory in denying the referential function of poetry , but differs significantly from it in his identification of the emotive with the poetic use of language ; for Jakobson , it will be remembered , the emotive or what Jakobson calls the conative and the poetic are quite distinct . |
| 12 | It would indeed take something close to theological commitment to think otherwise . |
| 13 | On May 28 , ten days after they had lost contact and close to complete despair Bonington gave up the search . |
| 14 | Modern 295 room hotel situated City Centre close to International Convention Centre , National Indoor Arena , downtown Shopping and Theatres . |
| 15 | Ironically when it eventually got close to Black Rock , no " rescue " could be made because of low water . |
| 16 | Affirming that the national curriculum contains significant chemistry , John Holman ( Watford GS ) felt that GCSE balanced science ( close to Key Stage ( KS ) 4 ) enabled more students to experience enough of each science to be able to tackle A-level , though the limited depth and wide range presented problems to sixth form colleges . |
| 17 | Labour 's campaign came about as close to pure packaging as is possible . |
| 18 | Close to each boundary , however , becomes much smaller — the boundary conditions require it to be zero right at the walls — and the second term of ( 22.11 ) must become much larger . |
| 19 | He became convinced that the horses were sensing his moods and feelings and were anticipating his wishes through telepathy , and he proved its existence by using pairs of closely bonded or empathic horses ( horses who were mentally and emotionally close to each other ) in a series of experiments . |
| 20 | Henry Blake experimentally proved the existence of empathy between horses through using pairs of closely bonded horses who were mentally and emotionally close to each other ; and he discovered that horses could communicate with some horses through empathy , but not with others . |
| 21 | You need only one landing net , one keepnet , one set of scales , etc. if you fish close to each other . |
| 22 | One Home has had great success with an art therapist who came over to take classes , combining residents from a number of Homes close to each other . |
| 23 | Compatibility : They are not particularly aggressive corals , and so can be placed close to each other and to other non-aggressive coelenterates such as zoanthids , Xenia pulse corals , bushy soft corals ( Simularia ) and gorgonians . |
| 24 | They set out to create the conditions where two hydrogen nuclei ( ‘ protons ’ ) could get close to each other , collide and join to make a nucleus of helium . |
| 25 | For typed input this can mean knowing the layout of the keyboard , because keys close to each other are more likely to have been substituted , inserted or transposed . |
| 26 | In most contexts , however , the natural ‘ effort after meaning ’ will impel the hearer / reader to try to co-interpret chunks of language which he finds close to each other on a page , or a stone or a wall and , where possible , to interpret the language as relevant to the physical context . |
| 27 | No , Stephanie thought later , it had been no more and no less than could have been hoped : a reasonable coming together of people close to each other , not by choice , reluctant in many cases . |
| 28 | The crowds who had jostled close to each other all day , shoulder to ruthless shoulder , thigh to strange thigh , had left their unexpungeable smell . |
| 29 | Thus , language and literature , medicine and physiology , and botany and agriculture could conveniently be placed close to each other . |
| 30 | If there are groups with similar vibration frequencies close to each other in the molecule , and two or more of the vibrations are of the same symmetry , the group modes will mix ; mixing displaces the normal modes to higher and lower frequencies . |