Example sentences of "close [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will his ideology make him close the border , or will economic self-interest keep it open , at least for a time ? |
| 2 | I did n't quite close the door , and after a few moments I could hear her footsteps walking briskly past . |
| 3 | Before she could quite close the door , his foot was in the jamb . |
| 4 | When the radiator is full , close the air vent , reset the lockshield valve to its original setting , replace its cover , and open the handwheel valve to allow water to circulate right the way through it . |
| 5 | Oh right there we are close the window . |
| 6 | But shares clawed their way back and by the close the fall had been cut to 10.2 points at 2,289.2 . |
| 7 | One wonders how close the cost of Edward 's internment was to the £15 3s. 4½d. paid to Hugh Brice in 1471 for the cerecloth and spices used to embalm his predecessor , Henry VI . |
| 8 | As the decade came to a close the BDDA had one hundred and thirty-nine branches spread across the country — one hundred and eighteen in England , thirteen in Scotland , six in Wales and two in Ireland — and , as we shall see in the next chapter , was poised to make one of the most important decisions of the first century . |
| 9 | Who knows how close the rest of Britain came to resembling Northern Ireland when plastic bullets were introduced at Broadwater Farm , but not used due to a decrease in the violence . |
| 10 | The proportion of genes which an individual shares with a relation depends on how close the relationship is . |
| 11 | Early falls on Wall Street offered London no encouragement , and by the close the footsie one hundred was down twenty two point three at two O two eight . |
| 12 | By the close the FT-SE 100 Share Index had marched ahead to 2837.7 , up 23.7 . |
| 13 | He had it nocked , and the hemp half drawn back when an extra flare lit the sky , and he saw how close the man was to firing , and how ill he looked , and how young he was : a hollow-faced boy , defending the walls of Famagusta . |
| 14 | ‘ Always , ’ Damian replied in that deep , cool voice , and in that moment Rachel saw how close the bond between the two men was , how much Charles relied on Damian , and how deeply aware of that reliance Damian was . |
| 15 | It is often surprising to see just how close the water conditions in your aquaria or ponds have come to problems . |
| 16 | For the serfs themselves , it brought to a close the degradation of chattel status and opened the way to the rehabilitation of their human dignity . |
| 17 | I was really looking forward to the 1961 Birkdale Open , and not just because we 'd gone so close the year before , though I was dying to get another chance to go one better this time . |
| 18 | For the Concordat , in theory at least , brought to a close the Investiture Contest of the twelfth century . |
| 19 | Each segment of the input word has a set of possible character combinations with a probability score to indicate how close the character matched the character stored in the database . |
| 20 | So an early mark-down of a few pence was soon recouped , and by the close the FTSE index had reversed the initial fall of over nearly eight points as New York showed signs of a more stable performance . |
| 21 | This brings to a close the examination of contexts in which the to and bare infinitives can be directly opposed in use with full verbs . |
| 22 | One can see here how close the relation is between logical empiricism and foundationalism . |
| 23 | However close the group , the most important feature is the same : reciprocal , interlocking shareholdings between members . |
| 24 | Kylie is very protective of her mother and stresses how close the Minogue family is . |
| 25 | However close the match of management behaviour to the criteria described , performance management can only work in the broader context of managing change through learning ( see chapter 6 ) . |
| 26 | The general output from a character recogniser is a lattice of the possible characters with indications about how close the match was between the character and character templates stored in a database ( see $1.4.2 ) . |
| 27 | They never thought how close the ceremony was to chaos . |
| 28 | As with model answers to mathematical problems , one can then see how close the agent came to finding the right alternative by the right route . |
| 29 | ‘ If you take a map of disadvantage and press it over a map of crime , there is too close a coincidence , ’ he said in his annual report last month . |
| 30 | As the broadcast drew to a close a voice proclaimed ‘ a vote cast for any parties which oppose each other is a vote for conflict ’ . |