Example sentences of "came [adv] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those of you who trained under a very autocratic system , dominated by a strictly imposed hierarchy where nurses came somewhere close to the bottom of the pyramid , are likely to find the concept of accountability quite daunting . |
| 2 | As they came rather close to the dash , they had extra stringers above the normal ones , to protect passengers mounting the stairs from passing traffic . |
| 3 | Predictably , though , there was little resemblence between this defeated Liverpool side and the one that came so close to being knocked out of the FA Cup in the semi-final against Portsmouth at Highbury . |
| 4 | The first major success of the year went to Ian Horrox who succeeded on the Kilnsey route he came so close to finishing last year . |
| 5 | They came so close to doing that . |
| 6 | The adventurous plan came so close to working and certainly won Ipswich a host of new admirers . |
| 7 | The Hudson 's Bay Company was so deeply involved in the struggle with the French in North America , and came so close to being overwhelmed , that nobody stepped forward to try to take its place . |
| 8 | Although Palmer 's theory of the physics of colour was mistaken ( he held there were three discrete forms of light ) , it is remarkable that this entrepreneur and tradesman came so close to a modern account of the physiology of colour vision . |
| 9 | In the intimidating atmosphere of the Mararios Stadium they silenced the partisan crowd with an early goal and then came so close to getting a second which would surely have put them through to a money spinning meeting with Paris St Germaine . |
| 10 | Last term Milne 's men came so close to grabbing more silverware , finishing second in the table and losing the Cup final to double-winners Galatasaray . |
| 11 | The sturdy Scot , who came so close to doing precisely that at Pebble Beach 12 months ago , is convinced the gruelling par-70 course demands wonderful , long iron play . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A few weeks after his escape from a film disaster , Dustin came shatteringly close to a disaster of a more fatal kind . |
| 14 | The story came desperately close to beginning with a victory . |
| 15 | Add that Rewa — a district chosen from six clubs and late replacements for American Samoa — came desperately close to beating New Zealand and it is easy to understand the logic of the Scotland manager , Duncan Paterson , who mused : ‘ The Fijians could send six or eight sides to the northern hemisphere and take everybody apart with their skills , pace and physique . ’ |
| 16 | Add that Rewa — a district chosen from six clubs and late replacements for American Samoa — came desperately close to beating New Zealand and it is easy to understand the logic of the Scotland manager , Duncan Paterson , who mused : ‘ The Fijians could send six or eight sides to the northern hemisphere and take everybody apart with their skills , pace and physique . ’ |
| 17 | The rally was held as the government managed to contain a week-long military rebellion that came dangerously close to succeeding . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But when one track came dangerously close to being ‘ rompalong , knees-up , power-pop anthem ’ the band quickly sabotaged it by sticking ‘ a cheesy drum machine behind it and turning the last two minutes into a total sonic attack ’ — much to the tearful bewilderment of their paymasters , left-field Belgians Play It Again Sam . |
| 20 | Stone also came dangerously close to giving the false impression that the GIs ' behaviour in the film was typical . |
| 21 | If the inland waterways came even close to being a nation-serving system , this was more a matter of outcome rather than of preconception . |
| 22 | They allowed the cameras into Kensington palace and Highgrove but in the space of two evenings ' viewing they came perilously close to destroying that magic ingredient that is so essential to the monarchy : its mystique . |
| 23 | Yesterday the Securities & Investments Board , the champion of that Act , came perilously close to removing the pillar by allowing stockbrokers ' soft-commissions practices to continue . |
| 24 | He 's always been surrounded by people who think everything else he does is marvellous , but one of the points of our relationship has been that I 've always criticised his work , and for me those double portraits of the Seventies came perilously close to Photo-Realism . ’ |
| 25 | But there were Schonfeld supporters who came perilously close to arguing that , if Jewish children could not be saved for a particular sector of the faith , they were not worth saving at all . |
| 26 | The result is that the synagogue , which three years ago came perilously close to closure , is now busy every week . |
| 27 | Tranmere 2 Portsmouth 0 PORTSMOUTH who , on Sunday , came agonisingly close to depriving Liverpool of a place in the FA Cup Final , were brought back to earth when they visited the unfashionable part of Merseyside last night . |
| 28 | LOWLY Brightlingsea United came agonisingly close to recording their first Jewson League Premier Division win of the season against top of the table Wisbech . |
| 29 | That gave me a big shock that did , and after that I used to move away if he came too close to me . |
| 30 | Some people had expressed the view that this trip came too close to the Central Wales Line excursion and it seemed clear that we would not get enough people to justify the expense of a coach . |