Example sentences of "close to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not tall , close to minimum height in fact , but he was stocky , and he made up for lack of inches with a pressing , high-speed manner which sometimes made people think he was all noise and movement and no intelligence . |
| 2 | Even close to major cities and towns where the passage of thousands of feet , hooves and occasional wheels had the effect of beating out a route 's direction very clearly , there was no local Department of Highways , or even a town plan to enforce legal limitations on the line of a particular road . |
| 3 | The events of August 1969 in Derry brought Northern Ireland close to civil war and the killing of thirteen anti-internment demonstrators in the city on 30 January 1972 precipitated the imposition of direct rule and the end of the Stormont parliament . |
| 4 | He was found close to overhead electricity railway cables . |
| 5 | There he suggests that the extant megalithic monuments are preferentially located in areas underlain by older rock ( without acknowledging that such monuments over younger rock in the south and east Britain might have been destroyed by later development ) , and close to geological faults which he believes cause a luminous aerial phenomenon , sometimes called a UFO ! |
| 6 | By January , virtually all foreign securities had been sold , but India still came extremely close to technical default on interest payments on its foreign debt . |
| 7 | He continually veered close to grand statements , then pulled back . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Handel wrote the Messiah in London , where he lived in a house close to present-day King 's Cross Station , five years after suffering a severe stroke , and it received its first performance in Dublin in 1742 . |
| 10 | The meetings are only the most visible signs of a thaw in the relationship — previously something close to undeclared war — between the Yard and the Labour authorities since Sir Peter 's accession in 1987 . |
| 11 | To start with , his Sonata No. 1 , written at the age of 19 , inhabits the same romantic hothouse as his teacher Franz Schreker — rather attractively and close to early Berg but without the discipline of his concise Piano Sonata , Op. 1 . |
| 12 | These are selected because they have characteristics close to early social group work practice : the operationalization of values ; and a detailed method of enquiry . |
| 13 | Similar polls conducted by various newspapers became notorious for their frequent and lamentable failures to come even close to accurate predictions of electoral outcomes . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Whereas agricultural soils are usually maintained close to neutral by adding lime the problem is altogether more serious with forest and moorland soils : extra acid inputs may release aluminium in various chemical forms to the ground water . |
| 16 | Such a regime may hold at the centre of galaxies or close to collapsed stars . |
| 17 | Most of our testers considered the driving position and seats close to perfect , but a couple of the taller specimens would have appreciated some sort of steering wheel adjustment to play off comfort against a clear view of the instruments . |
| 18 | However , coupled with a European high-speed rail network , owned by an EC track authority with both national and private operators running trains on it , the high-speed travel market in Europe could well come as close to perfect contestability as anything . |
| 19 | Souther Air will happily fly you as a passenger in their Islander from Invercargill to their own airstrip close to tiny Halfmoon Bay , the only township . |
| 20 | In tissue specimens of chronic inflammatory bowel disease ICAM-1 expression ( Fig 1B ) was only detectable on the inflammatory mononuclear cells , but not close to epithelial cells . |
| 21 | Soviet leaders were prepared to enter a broad-ranging understanding with the West over the Gulf , which would recognise Soviet interests in a region close to Soviet borders and of equal importance would help preclude an expansion of unilaterally proclaimed American interests in this volatile area . |
| 22 | The United States would reduce its ability to impose pressure close to Soviet borders while the USSR would renounce rights far from American shores . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Kirkby firemen prevented flames reaching the lower school annexe and nursery school , where classes continued close to normal for 140 youngsters . |
| 25 | Kirkby firemen prevented flames reaching the lower school annexe and nursery school , where classes continued close to normal for 140 youngsters . |
| 26 | Some report that at the beginning of the journey south , the party stayed at the little village of Cagnes-sur-Mer close to Nice . |
| 27 | It is also possible to analyse , in a very similar way , the behaviour close to homoclinic orbits involving the stationary points C+ and C { 10 } , and , indeed , the behaviour close to the special point X on Fig. 6.2 , which represents parameter values at which all three stationary points are connected by heteroclinic orbits { 11 } . |
| 28 | At the end of presentation subjects rated the passage for comprehensibility and then wrote down as much of it as they could remember , as close to verbatim as possible . |
| 29 | The housing stock which remains with the local authority tends to be less attractive than what is sold off , and much of it is less suitable for elderly people whose needs are for low-cost , good quality housing with ground-floor access in a safe and secure neighbourhood and close to good social support networks . |
| 30 | Others , for example the cormorants , gulls and terns , are more coast-bound , feeding offshore in winter but mainly in shallow coastal waters in summer ; they breed in smaller colonies , usually of a few dozen pairs close to good feeding grounds . |