Example sentences of "came [adv] to [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The views he expressed in The Middle Way , published in 1938 , pointing towards a managed economy and the expansion of welfare services to achieve a national minimum , came close to expressing the essential ingredients of what both PEP and the Next Five Years Group wanted in the way of a change of direction by the National Government . |
| 2 | Two years later , he joined Louis in a war against Holland , which came close to destroying the Protestant republic . |
| 3 | After Oxford , Merck joined the staff of Time Out , where she wrote impenetrable reviews and helped to organize the strike which came close to destroying the magazine . |
| 4 | Over the winter , breakdowns in Ulan Bator 's decrepit power supply came close to evacuating the capital and forcing people to abandon frozen buildings for traditional yurts . |
| 5 | In 1955 Shelby raced a works Austin-Healey in the Carrera Panamericana — and came close to assuming the title of the late Carroll Shelby when a huge accident destroyed his car and put him out of circulation for several months . |
| 6 | The year 1973 came close to repeating the triumphs of 1972 but , as usual in FI , other cars were catching up with the Lotus , though not in qualifying , for 1973 was the year in which Ronnie Peterson notched an astonishing nine pole positions and a place on the front row in twelve of the season 's fifteen races , as against one and five for Emerson , Peterson finishing a mere three points behind Fittipaldi . |
| 7 | MICHAEL STICH last night came close to producing the sort of form that won him Wimbledon two years ago , to move into the semi-finals of the Compaq Grand Slam Cup . |
| 8 | The Prime Minister came close to accusing the Chancellor of starting the inflationary spiral by an attempt to link the rate for sterling with the value of the German deutschmark . |
| 9 | Just one of the six keyboards on test came close to meeting the criteria I initially laid down for a replacement keyboard , the Fuller FDS. Even here the poor workmanship left much to be desired . |
| 10 | She came close to threatening the Community with a repetition of de Gaulle 's policy of ‘ the empty chair ’ in the sixties . |
| 11 | It had become so much a matter of routine that when she answered he came close to putting the phone down before he realized that all he 'd heard was , ‘ Hello . ’ |
| 12 | Northampton came close to winning the game in the last five minutes when Walden drove a fierce shot against the crossbar , ‘ making a mark which it will take a paintbrush to efface ’ . |
| 13 | While they had their own ideas and theories , Diana did not feel that any of them came close to understanding the true nature of the turmoil in her heart and mind . |
| 14 | They came close to ending the European famine last season only to falter at the end . |
| 15 | The most obvious expression of this was Maxse 's ‘ radical plutocracy ’ enquiry , launched in the wake of the Marconi scandal , when he came close to depicting the Asquith government as tools of a shadowy ‘ cosmopolitan finance ’ . |
| 16 | He came close to joining the Italian giant Ferrari but did eventually join an overseas manufacturer in 1954 , when he joined Ferrari 's rivals , Maserati . |
| 17 | He wrote about his own temptations , and came close to presenting the revolt of the Noldor as a felix culpa , a ‘ fortunate sin ’ , when Manwë accepts that their deeds will live in song , so that ‘ beauty not before conceived [ shall ] be brought into Eä ’ ; fiction , poetry , craftsmanship are seen as carrying their own justification and as all being much the same thing . |
| 18 | Overall , 20th Century publications showed a lower-than-average need for repair ( 3% ) , but items published in the early decades of the century came close to matching the figure for 19th Century publications , with , for example , 19% of all items published between 1900 and 1909 requiring treatment . |
| 19 | Kevin , son of former Phoenix Park Grand Prix winner Harold McGarrity , came close to landing the No 1 seat with the championship-winning David Sears team , but in the end that went to another Ulster driver , Dino Morelli . |
| 20 | Kelly finished fourth overall , ousted from second place by Mottet and Wegmuller , and came close to losing the King of the Mountains honour . |
| 21 | It was in fact some of the deaf schoolchildren who came closest to experiencing the horrors of the 1914–18 War . |
| 22 | He became a huge favourite with pre-war fans , who loved his fiercely determined performances , and it was while Bob was playing for us that we came closest to clinching the Southern League championship , being denied on goal average alone by Swindon Town in 1913–14 . |
| 23 | It was Robertson who came closest to scoring the goal the crowd craved , however . |