Example sentences of "close to [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 | Aqaba , close to Israeli territory , was also the focus of a more orthodox but abortive export scheme , involving a pipeline across the desert into jordan and complicated negotiations whereby the US engineered Israeli undertakings not to attempt to sabotage the line despite a well-known Israeli antipathy for Iraq . |
| 19 | He was getting close to foot-stamping time . |
| 20 | Doctors balance enthusiasm for more local control of funding as a self-governing trust against fears about clinicians finding themselves too close to budgetary responsibility . |
| 21 | The lyrics are pleasantly vague except for the curiously annoyed ‘ Candy Everybody Wants ’ , which veers close to wounded cynicism and nothing much else happens . |
| 22 | This may at first be simple ‘ draw writing ’ but as they develop and learn more about how written language works , their writing comes increasingly close to standard adult systems . |
| 23 | Operating at temperatures close to absolute zero ( -273C ) , super-magnets deliver the most powerful fields available and consume practically no electricity while operating in their superconducting ( ie , loss-free ) state . |
| 24 | Kobe Steel supplied the liquid-helium refrigerator for super-chilling the magnets close to absolute zero . |
| 25 | The IBM technique required temperatures close to absolute zero . |
| 26 | And those which are work only at temperatures close to absolute zero . |
| 27 | An irrepressible thought surfaces — I am unlikely ever to get quite this close to female genitalia again . |
| 28 | However , in Israel , aides close to Prime Minister Shamir were critical of Peres ' statements and denied that an Israeli-Palestinian dialogue was imminent . |
| 29 | Magnetic storms occurring close to solar maximum are often isolated events because the solar disturbances responsible for them are intense but shortlived . |
| 30 | When not attending a race meeting , Stewart can often be seen enjoying his favourite pastime , clay-pigeon shooting , a sport at which he gained international honours and came close to Olympic selection . |