Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] close to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ICAS welcomed the review but also said it was a timely reminder of archaic and unnecessary burdens in the UK tax system and urged an independent examination by a working party of all interested bodies to tackle problems close to home . |
| 2 | I have seen people close to tears as they own up to being over 50 . |
| 3 | Hundreds more were injured when police attacked the demonstration and Clarence Baker spent weeks close to death . |
| 4 | Hodgskin saw a shameless deception at the centre of Ricardian economics and British capitalism : both pretended that capital was productive and the essential spring to greater prosperity , but , Hodgskin argued , capitalists were always parasitic , holding wages close to subsistence levels and diverting the fruits of labour 's productivity to unproductive and anti-social consumption . |
| 5 | In effect , this level of service would have brought authorities close to self-sufficiency , an objective which most experts now agree is unrealistic in view of the very large numbers of titles now published ( 60,000 annually in the BNB alone , compared with the 24,000 of Bourdillon 's day ) , and the speed and efficiency of national interlending services in developed countries . |
| 6 | In one way I would n't expect to find any witnesses — since what happened took place close to dawn . |
| 7 | Stories of the Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs and his life in Brazil arouse feelings close to affection , for example . |
| 8 | Nowadays , it 's probably the only profession that enables you to spend time close to birds of prey and watch them in action . |
| 9 | And pushed Islam close to Christianity . |
| 10 | In the past , Scotland 's architects might find commissions close to home — such as England . |