Example sentences of "[verb] close to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Birds nesting close to artificial light are conned into thinking that night is actually day . |
| 2 | After end of lake turn right up ridge : a tough path is marked with cairns to begin with , but make your own way , keeping close to steep slope on right , up to summit ( a stiffish scramble ) ( b ) 7 . |
| 3 | Magnetic storms occurring close to solar maximum are often isolated events because the solar disturbances responsible for them are intense but shortlived . |
| 4 | As a consequence , undergraduate teaching laboratories operated close to maximum capacity throughout the year . |
| 5 | Monica Zipper of the Monix label , who won the recent More Dash Than Cash fashion prize , recently came close to financial disaster before being saved by a big manufacturer . |
| 6 | When not attending a race meeting , Stewart can often be seen enjoying his favourite pastime , clay-pigeon shooting , a sport at which he gained international honours and came close to Olympic selection . |
| 7 | The lyrics are pleasantly vague except for the curiously annoyed ‘ Candy Everybody Wants ’ , which veers close to wounded cynicism and nothing much else happens . |
| 8 | Ironically when it eventually got close to Black Rock , no " rescue " could be made because of low water . |
| 9 | He was getting close to foot-stamping time . |
| 10 | Starting in Greater London , it aims to move into main south east population concentrations by early 1994 and its licence requires close to national coverage by 2000 . |
| 11 | He was found close to overhead electricity railway cables . |
| 12 | Go forward on track through field ; in next ( second field ) , proceed close to right edge , at end of field which is to right and beyond the hedgerow , turn right on track which leads down through gates and up left side of the third field . |
| 13 | If we tried to describe a theory of legislation sufficiently uncontroversial to command close to universal assent among our lawyers and judges , we would be limited to something like this : if the words of a statute admit of only one meaning , no matter in what context they are uttered , and if we have no reason to doubt that this is the meaning understood by all the legislators who voted for or against the statute or abstained , and the statute so understood achieves no results not intended by all those who voted for it and would be so understood by all the members of the public to whom it is addressed , and could not be thought by any sensible person To violate any of the substantive or procedural constraints of the Constitution , or otherwise offend any widely held view about fairness or efficiency in legislation , then the propositions contained in that statute , understood in that way , are part of the community 's law . |
| 14 | As with so many of Stockman 's ambitions , this one did not come close to full realization ; nevertheless , in the early months of Reagan 's first term , the legislature was repeatedly upstaged and out-manoeuvred by the White House . |
| 15 | Following a route which will be some 23 km ( 14 miles ) in length , the City Bypass commences at Glasgow Road ( A8 ) immediately west of the bridge over Edinburgh/Aberdeen railway and follows a generally south-easterly alignment terminating at its junction with the Musselburgh Bypass close to Old Craighall . |
| 16 | He thus comes close to Formalist/structuralist theory in denying the referential function of poetry , but differs significantly from it in his identification of the emotive with the poetic use of language ; for Jakobson , it will be remembered , the emotive or what Jakobson calls the conative and the poetic are quite distinct . |