Example sentences of "close enough to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feminist psychologies which work by association , stay close enough to psychology 's concerns to be able to contest them . |
| 2 | Older surveys such as those by Mauriel and Anthony ( 1966 ) , Tomkins ( 1973 ) , and Reece and Cool ( 1978 ) , and more recent studies such as those of Pike ( 1983 ) , Scapens and Sale ( 1985 ) and Cornwell ( 1987 ) , do not get close enough to behaviour in specific contexts to reveal whether companies are suffering from a misuse of ROI . |
| 3 | Posters , magazines , even songs , held out the prospect of Arcadia within travelling distance of the metropolis — a detached house in leafy seclusion , but close enough to golf club , tennis club , and railway station . |
| 4 | Benny Lynch is an example close enough to home . |
| 5 | For the latter lot , only ‘ The Hair Pillow ’ , illuminated by singer Craig Wedren 's glorious , bizarre falsetto , sticks close enough to convention to be more a pleasure than an endurance test . |
| 6 | But if he and the club feel he is close enough to soundness to allow him to travel and let us decide , we will do that . |
| 7 | Thus planning permission had been granted ( on 22 December 1975 , close enough to Christmas for no-one to have been paying much attention ) and the period for appealing the planning permission was past before local residents discovered that Raybestos Manhattan would be processing and emitting asbestos , a highly toxic pollutant and confirmed mass killer . |