Example sentences of "so close [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | So to lower the cost of capital and raise the firm 's value , should you not fill your boots with it , at least until you get so close to bankruptcy that shareholders and creditors start to demand higher returns to balance the risk ? |
2 | Not since the Second World War had Congress remained in session so close to election day , and with mid-term elections on Nov. 6 rapidly approaching , a compromise budget was at last finally agreed . |
3 | Only Babylonia has given us a story so close to Genesis that the question of borrowing or of direct influence is seriously considered . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Even so close to shore , the sea is full of the souls of the drowned . |
6 | And in the far distance beckoned the possibility of marriage , a state so close to paradise that he hardly dared imagine it . |
7 | ‘ I did n't know I could have such a good time so close to home . |
8 | If you can get so close to barbel , with or without them knowing it , you should take the opportunity to study how they use the available cover to sneak under ; how they move like silent wraiths across the bottom , and how they rake over the gravel on the bottom with their barbules . |
9 | Some regard it as so close to bribery it should be banned . |
10 | We have arrived at chapter 22 , but before we deal with it in detail , we must look quickly at another story that lies between Isaac 's birth and his coming so soon and so close to death . |
11 | She had come so close to death . |
12 | Khrushchev could never forgive him for the cruelties and stupidities that brought Russia so close to defeat by Hitler . |
13 | ‘ It 's a terrible thing to happen so close to Christmas . ’ |
14 | ‘ But could I get an appointment so close to Christmas ? ’ |