Example sentences of "as close to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The World Wide Fund for Nature-Malaysia has been accused of undermining anti-logging campaigns by claiming that , in Peninsular Malaysia at least , " forest policies are among the best in the world " and " as close to sustainable as any major producing country " . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Labour 's campaign came about as close to pure packaging as is possible . |
| 4 | Some people seek to be independent of others , and live as hermits , or as close to that condition as possible . |
| 5 | Whipping out a dagger that glistened wetly with venom , he lunged for Richmann with a speed as close to that of a striking cobra as is humanly possible . |
| 6 | At the end of presentation subjects rated the passage for comprehensibility and then wrote down as much of it as they could remember , as close to verbatim as possible . |
| 7 | For at least some people of the first generation , Creole has symbolic value as a language of black identity , and those individuals may try to maintain their " Caribbeanness " by keeping their speech as close to Creole as possible . |
| 8 | He likes to bring diabetic patients as close to full term as possible . |
| 9 | How we bury people , how we marry people — First Spiritualists are always married as close to 3 February as possible , and , when the bride has made her vows , someone pours a bottle of milk over her head ( ‘ to feed her young ’ ) — how we pray , how we hang sheets out of the upstairs window to celebrate a birth , how we seem so utterly and completely deranged and yet feel so utterly and completely sane . |