Example sentences of "[prep] be near the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir : Increasing the recycling of plastics ought to be near the top of Britain 's environmental priorities , as your article ‘ The search to escape a plastic nightmare ’ ( 27 September ) suggests . |
| 2 | But when the two scholars had gone up to ( Oxford , ‘ I began to be near the top of the form … but still everything at school was an aimless task performed to the letter only . |
| 3 | It was important to pass the examination — and not only that , but to be near the top of the list in order to be assured of getting through the door of the right secondary school . |
| 4 | to his consternation , his school to be near the top of an LEA vandalism league . |
| 5 | Notice that , by chance , the N plots tend to be near the top ( ? dry ) end of the field and the K plots are towards the bottom ( ? wet ) end so that we can not be sure that any observed yield difference between N and K is not due to the moisture differential or to natural soil nutrients being washed by rain towards the low end of the field , etc . |
| 6 | Do you know , I 've never been inside before , simply splendid to be near the sea — ’ |
| 7 | Similarly , he celebrates the great house at Allington , which is early Stuart and built next to the road , with the comment : ‘ To be near the village , so as in some way to afford comfort , protection , and patronage , and perhaps also with a view to the pleasantness of neighbourhood for its own inmates , seemed to be the object of a gentleman when building his house in the old days . ’ |
| 8 | I had to be near the edge to use material like that . |
| 9 | In her plain blue suit she came down from the Clubhouse with two of the owners who seemed to want to be near the horses at ground level . |
| 10 | This in turn reduced the maintenance costs of removing and replacing 200 flying hour cassettes from their positions , which by this time were required to be near the tail of the aircraft in order that they might have the maximum chance of surviving impact forces in a crash . |
| 11 | There were girls who followed Must n't Grumble from gig to gig just to be near the boy , recording these concerts on reel-to-reel tape-recorders . |
| 12 | The railway had come from Belfast in 1842 , the original station having been at Seagoe and some will still recall the old sidings which used to be near the signal-box there . |
| 13 | She moved into Fife to be near the Forth estuary , where Thorfinn was oftenest to be found . |
| 14 | Actually , the family lived at Trebyan up to a few months before I was born , then they moved next door to be near the shop . ’ |
| 15 | Even then , though , firms would have to balance the advantages of a central location against those of decentralization : some clothing firms , for instance , could not leave London because of their need to be near the fashion market . |
| 16 | ‘ I think he does n't want to be near the going-up jets when they start up , ’ said Angalo . |
| 17 | Important : where the bend in the pipe needs to be near the end , bend the pipe before cutting it . |
| 18 | The studios are good for those wanting to be near the town but in a quiet spot . |
| 19 | I did not understand what the man was doing , but I wanted to be near the fire . |
| 20 | To be near the doors seemed safest . |
| 21 | I came to the Putney Young Women 's Christian Association Hostel to be near the hospital , and went to Fulham Congregational Church , so as to be near when IT happened . |