Example sentences of "[noun pl] close to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the projects close to commercial realisation uses optical fibre to sense a current flowing in a conductor . |
| 2 | However , in Israel , aides close to Prime Minister Shamir were critical of Peres ' statements and denied that an Israeli-Palestinian dialogue was imminent . |
| 3 | Kobe Steel supplied the liquid-helium refrigerator for super-chilling the magnets close to absolute zero . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The IBM technique required temperatures close to absolute zero . |
| 6 | And those which are work only at temperatures close to absolute zero . |
| 7 | 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 . |