Example sentences of "[noun sg] close [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subcutaneous injections can be in the scruff of the neck close to the handler 's thumb while holding the mouse firmly on a surface that it can grasp . |
| 2 | At the age of three , Carina ran in front of a car close to the family 's home in Winsford , suffering near fatal injuries . |
| 3 | In an attractive , sunny setting close to the centre of Westendorf , the Hotel Austria consists of two buildings . |
| 4 | The juxtaposition of a raised aqueduct close to the granary was not , one might think , a particularly sensible arrangement , as seepage from the aqueduct could well have made the granary , despite its raised floor , damper than was desirable . |
| 5 | In the same boat close to the bottom of Yorkshire Division plunged to a 20–6 defeat who played their best rugby of the season . |
| 6 | The ability to take action close to the market — and fast — is the first requirement for competing . |
| 7 | Club M'Diq is carefully sited on the Mediterranean coast close to the fishing village of M'Diq in the Rif region of that country , within easy reach of the exotic landscapes and fascinating old towns of Northern Morocco . |
| 8 | His boots hit the linoleum close to the door with a clatter . |
| 9 | Avoiding an unfavourable current can often be done by tacking close to the shore since the water is normally slower when moving at shallower depths . |
| 10 | This is exemplified by a circular dome-shaped bead from Ur shaped in such a way as to expose one of the pale layers as a ring close to the perimeter . |
| 11 | ‘ The [ Bull ] case figures among the most urgent , even before that of Thomson SA , ’ the article says , citing a source at the Ministry of Industry close to the minister . |
| 12 | With a cable break close to the ground there is always plenty of room ahead for the landing . |
| 13 | A bat may appear suddenly out of the dark close to a moth . |
| 14 | a wedding close to the frontier , |
| 15 | Controlling production by massive ‘ bribes ’ in the form of aid to Third World drug-producing countries in exchange for specific measurable target reductions in production and controls on local drug merchants requires major intergovernmental agreements and even so will not prevent the illicit manufacture close to the point of consumption of man-made ‘ designer drugs ’ . |
| 16 | The first difficulties began to appear last year after the Mazowiecki government , without consulting the public or the parliament , decreed that children should be taught religion in schools , in effect making Catholicism close to a state religion . |
| 17 | Right femur , tibia and fibula and bones of right foot were in anatomical with regard to each other , the limb lying stretched along the right side of the trunk but with head of the femur close to the skull . |
| 18 | On March 26 Noubir Amaoui , secretary-general of the Democratic Confederation of Labour ( CDT ) — a trade union grouping close to the opposition Socialist Union of Popular Forces ( USFP ) — was arrested at the CDT offices in Casablanca in connection with an interview he had given to the Spanish newspaper El País on March 11 . |
| 19 | Smith himself died 10 years later , buried in Highgate Cemetery close to the grave of Karl Marx . |
| 20 | Here we fused the scFv fragment close to the N-terminus of gp70 SU and we envisage that it is folded and displayed as a separate domain . |
| 21 | The 5 kilometre long footpath/cycleway begins at the old Livingston village close to the Kirk of Livingston which was rebuilt in 1732 on a site first consecrated in the 12th century . |
| 22 | Shawell is a small village close to the boundary of Leicestershire with both Warwickshire and Northamptonshire . |
| 23 | Marjorie is among those who benefit from being able to feel part of a community in a home close to the town centre . |
| 24 | A tunnel taking a footpath through a hillside close to the village church was actually built in 1835 for Stephenson 's ( q.v. ) horse-drawn Whitby and Pickering Railway . |
| 25 | Upstairs in his room there 's an Apple computer sitting on a tiny desk close to the bed . |
| 26 | This water originates at the Antarctic Divergence , a narrow zone close to the continent where diverging westerly and easterly winds pull subsurface waters upward and spread them across the ocean surface . |
| 27 | Unable to practise , he turned to teaching at Cheltenham School of Architecture close to the home he had designed and substantially built at Malvern , despite his affliction , and became deputy principal . |
| 28 | Darby was captured and gibbeted on the heath close to the scene of his exploits . |
| 29 | This temporary retreat may bring the immediate refreshment of change or it may widen our horizons either by romantic hyperbole or by an unexpected psychological authenticity close to the reality of life as we know it . |
| 30 | Weddell seals , which feed mainly on fish and squid , breed mainly on fast ice close to the shore of Antarctica and fringe islands , and spread to the pack ice in late summer . |