Example sentences of "[verb] perilously close to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result is that the synagogue , which three years ago came perilously close to closure , is now busy every week . |
| 2 | Are you aware that you 're getting perilously close to slander ? |
| 3 | Although yesterday 's increase in rates intensified fears that the economy could come perilously close to recession next year , the instant judgement of most economists was that the worst would be avoided . |
| 4 | Would n't it come perilously close to desecration ? |
| 5 | Unknown to most people , he had also driven a Formula Two racing car belonging to world-champion racing driver Graham Hill around the track at Thruxton — and come perilously close to disaster . |
| 6 | When Johnstone left Celtic to move south to Sheffield United , by his own confession , he had strayed perilously close to alcoholism . |