Example sentences of "[art] [noun] close to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tooth , for example , is a living organ , at equilibrium with a complex biological environment and set in the mouth close to blood vessels , nerves , sense organs and salivary glands . |
| 2 | At the start of the third month , Billy built Harriet a den in a tree in the forest close to Tiger Haven . |
| 3 | Wright agreed last week that there would be advantages in locating the store close to reprocessing plant . |
| 4 | In the eleventh and twelfth centuries to build in stone , granite or marble was a prodigious undertaking , particularly if the area concerned did not possess the materials close to hand . |
| 5 | It is quite obvious that each type of violence varies considerably in its degree : physical force can be anything from a mere push to a brutal beating which leaves the victim close to death , and a sexual assault may be anything from a brief touching to a gross form of sexual violation . |
| 6 | But it was only fourteen weeks ago that her mother Snazana came to Britain with her in a condition close to death . |
| 7 | But it was only fourteen weeks ago that her mother Snazana came to Britain with her in a condition close to death . |
| 8 | Somehow the country has managed to consume more energy per capita than anywhere else other than rich ( and notoriously thriftless ) Canada and the United States and at the same time plunge into a state close to bankruptcy . |
| 9 | A gunsmith is taking Michael Heseltine , the President of the Board of Trade , to court over a bureaucratic blunder which left a company close to bankruptcy . |
| 10 | As memory returned she was hit by a depression close to despair , the earlier feeling of security completely vanished . |
| 11 | They had stopped at an inn close to Minster Lovell to buy a grand meal and sup a few tankards of ale . |
| 12 | As an example close to home , it would be a sanction much more powerful than an SEC if , as head of audit of my firm , I was called in to that panel to be told that if my firm wanted the institutional shareholders to vote their proxies in favour of our being reappointed auditors to this or that company , we would have to mend our ways in some respect . |
| 13 | If you have to load an application close to breaking point then at least be patient with it . |
| 14 | Too shocked , too intensely angry to speak , she contemptuously passed the document to him with a hand that shook so much that he steadied it with his , an expression close to pity on his face as he carefully extracted the paper from her numb fingers . |