Example sentences of "[noun] close to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An inexpressible lethargy , born of shock and mingled desire , made her want to lean her head forward against him , to have her face and mouth close to that part of him which , earlier , had taken her into such a seventh heaven of ecstasy . |
| 2 | One Home has had great success with an art therapist who came over to take classes , combining residents from a number of Homes close to each other . |
| 3 | For typed input this can mean knowing the layout of the keyboard , because keys close to each other are more likely to have been substituted , inserted or transposed . |
| 4 | The events of August 1969 in Derry brought Northern Ireland close to civil war and the killing of thirteen anti-internment demonstrators in the city on 30 January 1972 precipitated the imposition of direct rule and the end of the Stormont parliament . |
| 5 | One of the projects close to commercial realisation uses optical fibre to sense a current flowing in a conductor . |
| 6 | In our attempts to draw the design activity back to a single integrated whole we have to look back to parallels close to that point of initial separation . |
| 7 | If there are groups with similar vibration frequencies close to each other in the molecule , and two or more of the vibrations are of the same symmetry , the group modes will mix ; mixing displaces the normal modes to higher and lower frequencies . |
| 8 | Usually found around the edge of the forest close to open countryside , you are more likely to hear the loud laughing call of the green woodpecker than see it , as it is quite a shy bird . |
| 9 | ‘ Put your eye close to that window . ’ |
| 10 | Moving through a confined space , for example if the glider is too large to go through the door , it is always wise to go nose first , swinging the glider right round and out with its nose close to one door . |
| 11 | One exceptional fossil site close to this age exists which provides far more detailed information about the bodies of animals than can come from mere shells . |
| 12 | Possible town houses are suggested by the mosaics found in the vicinity of Ivel House and in the area north of Limington Road close to Green Cutting in Kingshams Field . |
| 13 | However , in Israel , aides close to Prime Minister Shamir were critical of Peres ' statements and denied that an Israeli-Palestinian dialogue was imminent . |
| 14 | Zips : a strong two-way zip runs very freely — a series of pleated stitching close to each side of the zip preventing any loose fabric catching . |
| 15 | Normally , the ratio was roughly equivalent to one post for every seven MPs ; in coalition , Liberals were appointed on a ratio close to that norm , but Unionists had a proportion of jobs to MPs more like one to twelve or fifteen . |
| 16 | Souther Air will happily fly you as a passenger in their Islander from Invercargill to their own airstrip close to tiny Halfmoon Bay , the only township . |
| 17 | The only safe solution is to get the gliders into the hangar before the squalls arrive , or to make sure that there are at least two people close to each glider all the time , ready to swing them round when necessary . |
| 18 | No , Stephanie thought later , it had been no more and no less than could have been hoped : a reasonable coming together of people close to each other , not by choice , reluctant in many cases . |
| 19 | Modern 295 room hotel situated City Centre close to International Convention Centre , National Indoor Arena , downtown Shopping and Theatres . |
| 20 | Kobe Steel supplied the liquid-helium refrigerator for super-chilling the magnets close to absolute zero . |
| 21 | Still behind her , Luke had bent his head and had been murmuring his taunts close to one ear , while the strong arms he had bound about her waist were tightening securely , making her captivity a torment . |
| 22 | Operating at temperatures close to absolute zero ( -273C ) , super-magnets deliver the most powerful fields available and consume practically no electricity while operating in their superconducting ( ie , loss-free ) state . |
| 23 | The IBM technique required temperatures close to absolute zero . |
| 24 | And those which are work only at temperatures close to absolute zero . |
| 25 | What they wanted to provide very rarely brought expenditure close to this ceiling , so they had little problem in deciding whether the project could or could not cost-effectively support a client ( see Chapter Six for further details of the cost of care ) . |
| 26 | Examples were given of machinery overturning on land undermined by badger workings ; a horse and rider both suffering broken bones when the horse put a foot through the roof of a badger tunnel ; a nine-month-old calf breaking its neck when it fell into a sett ; a young lamb trapped in a sett ; extensive damage to spring grazing pastures by badgers grubbing for worms ; wheat crops flattened and eaten or soiled by badgers ; and numerous examples of TB in dairy herds close to large badger populations known to be infected with TB . |
| 27 | Important details have been filled in by experiments in channel flow ; transition is promoted by a vibrating ribbon close to one wall whilst flow in the other half of the channel remains undisturbed , so there is close resemblance to a boundary layer . |
| 28 | Handel wrote the Messiah in London , where he lived in a house close to present-day King 's Cross Station , five years after suffering a severe stroke , and it received its first performance in Dublin in 1742 . |
| 29 | Total confusion reigns supreme , and an atmosphere close to mass hysteria ensues . |