Example sentences of "close to [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Close to Minton in age , Wallis lived with his mother in Roehampton and had an old-fashioned politeness and charm . |
| 2 | The game was already lost in Berne when Gough went and I think the reason for that was that the Scots had failed to find the fire that brought them so close to success in Sweden . |
| 3 | YANKEE DELTA on the apron of the airport where she was made , Tarbes , close to Lourdes in the French Pyrenees . |
| 4 | She looked at Scott , something close to pity in her voice . |
| 5 | The others are abroad — at Caleycourt and Chocques , respectively near Verdun and Lille in France ; and at Renory , close to Liege in Belgium . |
| 6 | … locating activities generating child trips ( eg schools , playgrounds ) close to dwellings in the residential areas , thus reducing the necessity to cross busy roads ; |
| 7 | The last-named gave to the Hospitallers land in Stalisfield and Oare close to Faversham in Kent ; and a descendant of the same name held a manor at Ospring , which was known as Cade 's manor as late as the eighteenth century . |
| 8 | Only termites , leafcutter ants ( tribe Attini ) and some social bees ( the stingless melipones ) even come close to ants in their large-scale efforts to alter their environments and cycle materials through food webs . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The MOUTH vowel [ P9 ] is especially interesting because it shows all the possible variants , from the extreme basilectal variant which occurs before /n/ in sound [ ] through the JC/JE variant [ ] and [ ] , something close to RP in down [ ] to the Cockney variant in [ ] twice . |