Example sentences of "[noun pl] close to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One Home has had great success with an art therapist who came over to take classes , combining residents from a number of Homes close to each other . |
| 2 | For typed input this can mean knowing the layout of the keyboard , because keys close to each other are more likely to have been substituted , inserted or transposed . |
| 3 | One of the projects close to commercial realisation uses optical fibre to sense a current flowing in a conductor . |
| 4 | In our attempts to draw the design activity back to a single integrated whole we have to look back to parallels close to that point of initial separation . |
| 5 | If there are groups with similar vibration frequencies close to each other in the molecule , and two or more of the vibrations are of the same symmetry , the group modes will mix ; mixing displaces the normal modes to higher and lower frequencies . |
| 6 | However , in Israel , aides close to Prime Minister Shamir were critical of Peres ' statements and denied that an Israeli-Palestinian dialogue was imminent . |
| 7 | Kobe Steel supplied the liquid-helium refrigerator for super-chilling the magnets close to absolute zero . |
| 8 | Still behind her , Luke had bent his head and had been murmuring his taunts close to one ear , while the strong arms he had bound about her waist were tightening securely , making her captivity a torment . |
| 9 | Operating at temperatures close to absolute zero ( -273C ) , super-magnets deliver the most powerful fields available and consume practically no electricity while operating in their superconducting ( ie , loss-free ) state . |
| 10 | The IBM technique required temperatures close to absolute zero . |
| 11 | And those which are work only at temperatures close to absolute zero . |
| 12 | Examples were given of machinery overturning on land undermined by badger workings ; a horse and rider both suffering broken bones when the horse put a foot through the roof of a badger tunnel ; a nine-month-old calf breaking its neck when it fell into a sett ; a young lamb trapped in a sett ; extensive damage to spring grazing pastures by badgers grubbing for worms ; wheat crops flattened and eaten or soiled by badgers ; and numerous examples of TB in dairy herds close to large badger populations known to be infected with TB . |