Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] 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 | Hundreds more were injured when police attacked the demonstration and Clarence Baker spent weeks close to death . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Stories of the Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs and his life in Brazil arouse feelings close to affection , for example . |
| 6 | In the past , Scotland 's architects might find commissions close to home — such as England . |