Example sentences of "[adv] close to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By January , virtually all foreign securities had been sold , but India still came extremely close to technical default on interest payments on its foreign debt . |
| 2 | Is it safe to stop so close to that accident ? |
| 3 | NIGEL LAWSON conceded last night that the hike in interest rates was extremely ‘ awkward ’ , ‘ uncomfortable ’ and ‘ embarrassing ’ so close to next week 's Conservative Party conference . |
| 4 | were trailing 18–0 in their first round cup-tie Bradford and went desperately close to another major upset against a North Division One side , but York ended four points short of victory at 18–15 . |
| 5 | were trailing 18–0 in their first round cup-tie Bradford and went desperately close to another major upset against a North Division One side , but York ended four points short of victory at 18–15 . |
| 6 | It was they who were the defenders , not the aggressors , the men pushed by fear of extermination into acts which they knew came dangerously close to that disturbance of the social order which was almost as much to be feared . |
| 7 | The second movement , a March , has this syncopated atmosphere and a subsidiary theme coincidentally close to Happy Birthday to you ! |
| 8 | It also rejected the Crown 's argument that the issue of consent should be left to the jury — in the same way as the question of dishonesty is left to them in theft cases — but its actual decision comes fairly close to this position . |
| 9 | However , coupled with a European high-speed rail network , owned by an EC track authority with both national and private operators running trains on it , the high-speed travel market in Europe could well come as close to perfect contestability as anything . |
| 10 | Labour 's campaign came about as close to pure packaging as is possible . |
| 11 | Some people seek to be independent of others , and live as hermits , or as close to that condition as possible . |
| 12 | He likes to bring diabetic patients as close to full term as possible . |
| 13 | This may at first be simple ‘ draw writing ’ but as they develop and learn more about how written language works , their writing comes increasingly close to standard adult systems . |
| 14 | He became convinced that the horses were sensing his moods and feelings and were anticipating his wishes through telepathy , and he proved its existence by using pairs of closely bonded or empathic horses ( horses who were mentally and emotionally close to each other ) in a series of experiments . |
| 15 | Henry Blake experimentally proved the existence of empathy between horses through using pairs of closely bonded horses who were mentally and emotionally close to each other ; and he discovered that horses could communicate with some horses through empathy , but not with others . |
| 16 | Doctors balance enthusiasm for more local control of funding as a self-governing trust against fears about clinicians finding themselves too close to budgetary responsibility . |
| 17 | The effect of such poisons is to cause some children to be born as monsters , and the people who venture too close to contaminated land sicken and die . ’ |
| 18 | But , when he gets too close to any dog he growls and barks . |
| 19 | " Just remember , " he shouted at us , " let me know what 's happening in Torajaland ; do n't let Abu too close to those Toraja ladies ; and bring back my jeep ! " |
| 20 | Following too close to another vehicle came second in a report by the Automobile Association . |
| 21 | An irrepressible thought surfaces — I am unlikely ever to get quite this close to female genitalia again . |