Example sentences of "close to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No outlaw would lurk so near a royal palace or so close to a powerful priory . ’ |
| 2 | To achieve something close to a perfect finish , a little forethought and measurement are essential before the first length of wallcovering is cut to length . |
| 3 | Nothing in life is perfect , nor is it desirable that anything should be ; but this book comes as close to a perfect one-volume reference on the USSF as is humanly possible . |
| 4 | Canada 's disappointment at going so close to a memorable Davis Cup triumph was shared no doubt by Neal Frazer and his Australian team , who had faced the long journey to Cyprus for what was always likely to be a somewhat meaningless match against a no longer credible Yugoslav side , without players from Croatia , even before the injury to Slovodan Zivojinovic , in the first match . |
| 5 | Certainly evasion was rife in 1381 , as can be seen from the marked discrepancies between the numbers paying the tax in that year and the figures for 1377 [ A.4 ] , and there is no reason to believe that the payments in the earlier year , although more complete , provide anything close to a total record of the population . |
| 6 | We stopped close to a small graveyard where a tribe of wild goats stared suspiciously at us from between the mounds of earth and bleak wooden crosses . |
| 7 | Can you identify this item found in a ploughed field close to a small stream near the ruins of Inch Abbey ? |
| 8 | Starkisser had to have cost him close to a hundred thousand US dollars , and the Lucaya penthouse apartment , with its private docks and its view towards Silver Point Beach , probably cost ten times as much . |
| 9 | Gravity has a similar effect ; a spaceship could skip close to a black hole for what would seem to be a short period of time and then emerge to find that , for the rest of the Universe , millions of years had passed . |
| 10 | Close to a second Tour victory this season , he currently lies in 16th position on the Order of Merit with some £187,883 . |
| 11 | McReynolds close to a personal best |
| 12 | In chilly conditions , P. McReynolds came close to a personal best with a time of 1 hr. 6 mins. 31 secs . |
| 13 | The right hon. Gentleman did not provide time for such a debate because he did not want to embarrass the Tory party so close to a general election . |
| 14 | The question eludes a convincing answer ; yet the intuition persists that behind its lyric grace , its elegant melancholia , " Diffugere nives " conceals something close to a political statement of disillusion and regret . |
| 15 | Close to a rocky outcrop were discovered the remains of two bronze statues covered in marine concretions a draped figure 170cm high with no base and only half its head preserved and a bust with a badly corroded head . |
| 16 | Close to a million are now out of work , 8 per cent of the workforce . |
| 17 | Recent theories favour identification of the mountain with Bennachie , close to a Roman marching camp revealed in the late 1970s by aerial photography at Durno , 15 miles northeast of Aberdeen . |
| 18 | There was his dear head , bent close to a tousled blonde mop over a pile of papers . |
| 19 | To the right of these doors is the stone commemorating the start of work , close to a superb copy — the original is in the Museum of the Duomo in Palazzo Reale ; indeed , several of the statues and works of art in and on the Duomo are exact copies , with the originals being kept in the museum — of a wood and copper eleventh-century crucifix marking the grave of an early Archbishop . |
| 20 | And I actually think it is coming close to a professional slur on Mr to suggest that he ca n't take an independent view . |
| 21 | Certain works of communication have an artistic quality which engages the psyche of viewers , listeners and readers in a deep way , coming close to a religious experience . |
| 22 | The third , the Orange route , runs to the south , passing close to a primary school and houses . |
| 23 | Here we have an extraordinary influence wielded by two similarly structured and ( as it must seem to many ) identical educational institutions , neither of which offers anything close to a Continental conservatory . |
| 24 | Not all were tankers — the second , a South Korean-run oilfield service vessel , was caught close to a Saudi offshore field and sunk . |
| 25 | ROCK star Dave Stewart was yesterday declared a civic hero in the city he quit as a teenager after years of school bullying pushed him close to a nervous breakdown . |
| 26 | A weak band close to a strong one may become difficult to detect in the gas phase , unless its own rotational envelope contains a prominent feature such as a Q-branch close to the band origin . |
| 27 | We arrived at the weapon pit at the side of the road and close to a low wall . |
| 28 | The intersegmental membrane does not permit diffusion , so that a high concentration at the front end of one segment is maintained close to a low concentration at the back of the segment in front . |
| 29 | Jamie Pollock came close to a late equaliser only to be denied with a brilliant save by James . |
| 30 | Sitting with her own bare legs close to a hairy , powerful-looking brown thigh , her fastidious gaze drawn to the flex and contraction of muscles as gears were changed , was n't precisely conducive to Virginia 's peace of mind , for some infuriating reason . |