Example sentences of "close to [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the month it appeared that FAPLA , which claimed to be acting defensively , had breached the rebel UNITA defences and come close to capturing the airstrip near Mavinga , 19 km south of the Lomba river . |
| 2 | It comes close to shaming some of its own stable-mates , too , and they are among the swiftest in their class . |
| 3 | The examples that Shklovsky 's enthusiasm for the idea makes him choose in the early essays are extremely heterogeneous , and this heterogeneity makes him come close to spoiling the unique value of his case . |
| 4 | Because , whether intentional or not , both these men come close to implying the girls were partly to blame . |
| 5 | Indeed , they sometimes came close to thinking that these achievements were not merely impressive but final . |
| 6 | In 1955 Shelby raced a works Austin-Healey in the Carrera Panamericana — and came close to assuming the title of the late Carroll Shelby when a huge accident destroyed his car and put him out of circulation for several months . |
| 7 | Larne twice came close to stealing a second goal but seemed content to play for a draw . |
| 8 | The memory was made more bitter still by the fact that she had come close to believing it . |
| 9 | Yesterday the Securities & Investments Board , the champion of that Act , came perilously close to removing the pillar by allowing stockbrokers ' soft-commissions practices to continue . |
| 10 | Waqar had tome to come close to removing Hick 's head and they shaved his wicket with a rapid breakback , but Gower was still flowing when lunch came , England 195 for 4 and still some way from safety . |
| 11 | Passing cars on the southbound carriageway slowed and came close to bumping as drivers rubbernecked for a spot of interesting carnage , but they drove on disappointed . |
| 12 | It was ironic to realise she 'd once come close to despising her mother for that frailty , when she was battling hard now not to fall into the same trap herself . |
| 13 | The Prime Minister came close to accusing the Chancellor of starting the inflationary spiral by an attempt to link the rate for sterling with the value of the German deutschmark . |
| 14 | When Mr Major learned the result , he acted as if he had seen Chelsea win the Cup rather than his own MPs come so close to humiliating him . |
| 15 | Here , for my argument , I would extend it to say that , in the absence of an adequate sociology , such ‘ ethnography ’ comes dangerously — close to confusing itself with aesthetics , confusing description with evaluation . |
| 16 | The views he expressed in The Middle Way , published in 1938 , pointing towards a managed economy and the expansion of welfare services to achieve a national minimum , came close to expressing the essential ingredients of what both PEP and the Next Five Years Group wanted in the way of a change of direction by the National Government . |
| 17 | A second reason was closely related to this , namely an anthropocentrism which came close to asserting that man could do whatever he liked with creation . |
| 18 | Philip II of Spain came close to achieving it , before he was defeated by , among others , half naked English mercenary soldiers who ‘ for thieving and brawling had no equals ’ — the ancestors of the football fans who are plotting next year 's ‘ English invasion of Italy ’ . |
| 19 | So , despite seeming to lose every argument , the CEGB probably came close to achieving its original goal . |
| 20 | It was further suggested that there were considerable regional contrasts with some local authorities close to achieving their requirements and others seriously lacking in their provision of adult training facilities . |
| 21 | But with Gazza at one end of the scales , even a pound of turnips at the other end will come close to achieving that . |
| 22 | Why should we assume the so-called contented majority has come even close to fulfilling its aspirations ? |
| 23 | Nixon 's ambitions were to crash on the rock of Watergate , but even without that disaster it is most unlikely that he would have come even close to fulfilling his mandate , In that , he would not , by any means , have been alone . |
| 24 | He categorizes the transformation of the inexpressible " visceral " need through four stages , ending up with a " compromised " need which requires extensive negotiation with the assistance of a librarian to come close to fulfilling the original visceral need . |
| 25 | Back in Belfast , it was getting close to printing time , but men who thought they had finished work for the day were summoned from the former Brown Horse pub across the street and the result was that the ISN was the first paper in the world to carry the tragic story . |
| 26 | I have given that estimate before , and the hon. Member for Blackburn is reported to have said on the strength of a newspaper article that we both read : ’ the Secretary of State has come close to misleading the House of Commons over the numbers required . ’ |
| 27 | His disciplinary record was appalling and in modern times only Willie Johnson of Rangers and Billy Bremner of Leeds come remotely close to seizing his crown . |
| 28 | It was the manifest failure of the Bolsheviks to retain the confidence of the masses , their resort to brutal coercion , which enabled the openly reactionary Whites to come so close to overthrowing them . |
| 29 | The truth was that for four years Fittipaldi had come close to dominating motor racing in the way Jackie had before him : after two indifferent early years learning his trade , he had been champion twice ( in 1972 and 1974 ) and come second in 1973 and 1975 . |
| 30 | BRIAN CLOUGH was last night close to persuading Scot Gemmill to sign a new long-term contract with Nottingham Forest . |