Example sentences of "close [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 You need only one landing net , one keepnet , one set of scales , etc. if you fish close to each other .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 The crowds who had jostled close to each other all day , shoulder to ruthless shoulder , thigh to strange thigh , had left their unexpungeable smell .
12 Thus , language and literature , medicine and physiology , and botany and agriculture could conveniently be placed close to each other .
13 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 .
14 On a true evolutionary walk you could " drop through " , at any time , to another plane , for instance from the plane of Figure 6 to the plane of Figure 7 ( in the vicinity of the insect , where the two planes come close to each other ) .
15 The only safe solution is to get the gliders into the hangar before the squalls arrive , or to make sure that there are at least two people close to each glider all the time , ready to swing them round when necessary .
16 Zips : a strong two-way zip runs very freely — a series of pleated stitching close to each side of the zip preventing any loose fabric catching .
17 ‘ Put your eye close to that window . ’
18 Normally , the ratio was roughly equivalent to one post for every seven MPs ; in coalition , Liberals were appointed on a ratio close to that norm , but Unionists had a proportion of jobs to MPs more like one to twelve or fifteen .
19 It was they who were the defenders , not the aggressors , the men pushed by fear of extermination into acts which they knew came dangerously close to that disturbance of the social order which was almost as much to be feared .
20 An inexpressible lethargy , born of shock and mingled desire , made her want to lean her head forward against him , to have her face and mouth close to that part of him which , earlier , had taken her into such a seventh heaven of ecstasy .
21 In our attempts to draw the design activity back to a single integrated whole we have to look back to parallels close to that point of initial separation .
22 Italy seems to be coming close to that point of no return ; it is rapidly exhausting its reserves of international goodwill as well as its reserves of foreign currency .
23 Is it safe to stop so close to that accident ?
24 Close to that corner , still lighting on the front face but
25 Some people seek to be independent of others , and live as hermits , or as close to that condition as possible .
26 If a million are estimated to have watched Berlin , close to that number lined the roads encircling the walled Moroccan city .
27 But , when he gets too close to any dog he growls and barks .
28 " Just remember , " he shouted at us , " let me know what 's happening in Torajaland ; do n't let Abu too close to those Toraja ladies ; and bring back my jeep ! "
29 Following too close to another vehicle came second in a report by the Automobile Association .
30 Do not land behind or close to another glider or obstruction .
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