Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] close to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tooth , for example , is a living organ , at equilibrium with a complex biological environment and set in the mouth close to blood vessels , nerves , sense organs and salivary glands . |
| 2 | He writes of ‘ the little town Portadown , with its comfortable unpretending houses , its squares and market-place , its pretty quay , with craft along the river , a steamer building in the dock close to mills and warehouses — a pleasant conclusion to this ten miles ' drive ( from Armagh ) . ’ |
| 3 | The Iraqis , once they had withdrawn from the territory occupied in the early months , and to some extent even before this took place , constructed solid defensive positions , notably in the centre near Mandali and Khanaqin , and in the south close to Basrah , from which to fight off the anticipated Iranian offensives . |
| 4 | At the start of the third month , Billy built Harriet a den in a tree in the forest close to Tiger Haven . |
| 5 | An expression for z which is valid for a point ( w , v , z ) on the surface close to O such that both w and v are small can be obtained by a Taylor series expansion : . |
| 6 | When he was not ducking and weaving through the cedar brush with this curious hat on his head , Gould was sitting up at night on the Appletree Flats waiting to ambush a tawny-shouldered podargus or crouching next to a hole in the ground close to Stephen 's garden gate waiting for the appearance of an unfamiliar little mouse . |
| 7 | THE unveiling of a plaque by the Mayor of Winchester , Captain Richard Bates , at the area close to Alresford Pond known as The Soke , on Saturday , marked the end of 15 years ' endeavour by the Alresford Society . |
| 8 | Wright agreed last week that there would be advantages in locating the store close to reprocessing plant . |
| 9 | A man on a motor cycle , a big Honda , had turned round at their approach , parked by the roadside close to Evelyn 's cottage . |
| 10 | It is quite obvious that each type of violence varies considerably in its degree : physical force can be anything from a mere push to a brutal beating which leaves the victim close to death , and a sexual assault may be anything from a brief touching to a gross form of sexual violation . |
| 11 | Ellwood reached out with two stiffened fingers , the rest of his hand a loose fist , and made the sign of the cross close to Carey 's face . |
| 12 | Investigators had found that fragments of a detonator recovered from a field close to Lockerbie were identical to those in a radio cassette bomb seized from two Libyan agents arrested in Dakar , Senegal , in February 1988 . |
| 13 | But it was only fourteen weeks ago that her mother Snazana came to Britain with her in a condition close to death . |
| 14 | But it was only fourteen weeks ago that her mother Snazana came to Britain with her in a condition close to death . |
| 15 | Reflecting such thoughts , Mr Oleg Bogomolov , a reformer close to Mr Gorbachev , said in February , ’ If Hungary chooses to be a neutral state , then it will not be a threat just because of that . ’ |
| 16 | So colleagues were intrigued when posters appeared near the Guardian office recently , announcing a meeting to celebrate Uncle Joe 's 110th birthday in a hall close to King 's Cross station . |
| 17 | Two days previously , Iran had announced a no-go ‘ Advice Area ’ of its own , running from a point close to Kharg and across to Kuwait , down the Gulf to the islands of Sirri and Abu Musa . |
| 18 | According to the author of the report , Tony Vernon Harcourt , a director on base pay of £100,000 typically enjoys a package close to £200,000 after adding in a £17,000 bonus , £20,000 company pension contribution , car and other benefits worth £10,000 and an annual profit on share options worth about £50,000 . |
| 19 | An editorial in the May 1 edition of the Tehran Times ( a newspaper close to President Rafsanjani ) called on the USA and other Western countries to exert pressure on Israel to release Moslem detainees , specifically Shaikh Abdul Karim Obeid , the Shia cleric abducted from South Lebanon by Israeli commandos in July 1989 [ see pp. 36832 ; 36858 ] . |
| 20 | The girl called Maggie had no alternative but to sit in a chair close to Eileen . |
| 21 | The electrification of the network , a topic close to Lenin 's heart , was discussed in the pages of Gudok . |
| 22 | Suchard was unwilling to increase its bid and sold its 29.9 per cent stake to Nestlé , at a profit close to £200 million . |
| 23 | Somehow the country has managed to consume more energy per capita than anywhere else other than rich ( and notoriously thriftless ) Canada and the United States and at the same time plunge into a state close to bankruptcy . |
| 24 | Hare then held that one was not , so to speak , in the arena of moral debate at all , unless one 's moral judgements were based on considerations one was prepared to universalise ( in a sense close to Kant 's ) . |
| 25 | They would perhaps be organic unities too in a sense close to Moore 's but the way in which the value of the whole was not composed of the values of the parts will be different . |
| 26 | For an example which approximates training instances in most respects , most RAM chips will output 1 , so the summing device will output a number close to K. |
| 27 | The generalized class of examples which it recognises consists of all which produce a sum close to K. |
| 28 | I think the price this time might be lower but competition between rival bidders might mean that Stakis can get a sum close to £9m . |
| 29 | Jonathan 's father owned a villa close to St Tropez , and she and Jonathan had toured the area extensively with friends . |
| 30 | A gunsmith is taking Michael Heseltine , the President of the Board of Trade , to court over a bureaucratic blunder which left a company close to bankruptcy . |