Example sentences of "close a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | Somewhere quite close a pheasant called . |
| 4 | The end result was so close a finish that , for the moment , the result is being declared a dead heat with birds recording a velocity of 1173 . |
| 5 | Nothing is invisible to radar , but a stealthy aircraft shows up over the background noise only at so close a range that radar , which has dominated air and combat for two generations , is virtually useless against it . |
| 6 | ‘ How close a friend are you , feller ? ’ |
| 7 | Now in criterion three , it also goes on to say , and have as close a relationship to the city as is consistent with approved greenbelt policy . |
| 8 | The defeat of the motions brought to a close a crisis within the ruling coalition provoked by the ultra-orthodox Shas faction 's threat to leave the government in protest over statements issued by Shulamit Aloni , the Minister for Education . |
| 9 | However , there is likely to be just as close a contest at Chambers Park where Portadown face Queen 's University . |
| 10 | As he stepped ashore , three RAF Hampden bombers made a low-level attack , placing their smoke bombs in so close a screen for the landing that phosphorus from a sheet of flame set fire to the Colonel 's tunic . |
| 11 | The selection of letters that are similar to what was written are retrieved with an indication of how close a match was obtained . |
| 12 | Philpot 's retirement brought to a close an era in the life of the School . |
| 13 | A recent oral history of schoolchildren shows how close an eye the police kept on ‘ larking about ’ . |
| 14 | Of all the science fiction programmes screened on British Television none is so close an ancestor to Doctor Who as Pathfinders . |