Example sentences of "[adv] close to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tie cords together close to the outer screw-eye . |
| 2 | I crossed the field , keeping extremely close to the top wall ready to jump over it if two tons of Fray Bentos came visiting , but there was no sign of either bull or cattle . |
| 3 | This reportedly began only on Jan. 20 , but only close to the Israeli border in the West Bank , and was limited to those aged over 15 . |
| 4 | After Bellgrove , in 1989 , Sheriff Archibald McKay in his deliberations criticised the single lead junction layout which placed a signal so close to the single-track section of line outside the station . |
| 5 | After Bellgrove , in 1989 , Sheriff Archibald McKay in his deliberations criticised the single lead junction layout which placed a signal so close to the single-track section of line outside the station . |
| 6 | They had done their work well in getting an undetected remote so close to The New Hope . |
| 7 | The two-lane road was winding its way sometimes so close to the sparkling sea that Gina felt she could lean out of the window and dabble her hand in it . |
| 8 | Now , so close to the Last Days for which he had been prepared , Seth was what he was , and nothing less . |
| 9 | Majority foreign ownership was not permitted under Argentinian law , and the fact that the Iberia stake had now come so close to the maximum threshold , was seen as imperilling the whole privatization process . |
| 10 | In this 14 kilometre climb , we will witness wonderful feats of bravery — and many a rider abandoning in tears , simply unable to continue , even so close to the finishing line . |
| 11 | The incident happened at around 1pm close to the Golden Sands Holiday Camp . |
| 12 | A position further west on West Richmond Street is not available without removal of parking provision but would in any case place the stop unacceptably close to the previous stop in Nicolson Street . |
| 13 | Animation Works Interaction combines sound ( if your PC is MPC compatible ) , graphics , and animation to come somewhere close to the ultimate Multimedia package . |
| 14 | The regime is tightening and she had been warned that they might no longer put up with her outspokenness and propaganda ; her friends thought that she would be safer somewhere close to the French border , but she was taking against the place . |
| 15 | Beyond the Czerny and Beethoven examples for quick Allegrettos I have cited above , Beethoven further gives us , in the 6/8 Allegretto agitato fourth movement of his F minor String Quartet , op.95 , a tempo of dotted crotchet = 92 , surely rather close to the dotted minim = 108 of the Menuetto of his Symphony no.1 . |
| 16 | No further colonization could be attempted while the war with Spain went on , partly because ships bound for the North American seacoast were forced by the prevailing winds to go uncomfortably far north or dangerously close to the Spanish settlement in the south , but interest revived after peace was made with Spain in 1604 . |
| 17 | George Foreman , whose comeback as the roly-poly , cheeseburger contender has helped to hasten heavyweight boxing 's descent towards something dangerously close to the wide world of wrestling , recognised Lewis 's devastating performance as a sea change in the game . |
| 18 | I do n't think I have been fooled by artefacts , or overinterpreted my findings , though it is obvious even to me , let alone a critical outsider , that in fitting the data within a temporal cascade I have not formally proved all the necessary biochemical links ; some of my arguments have run dangerously close to the classical trap of assuming that post hoc implies propter hoc ; just because the phosphorylation step precedes the glycoprotein synthesis I can not automatically assume that the latter depends upon the former . |
| 19 | The site of the Unfair is an old industrial building close to the main train station in Ehrenfeld , a section of Cologne slightly outside the centre , but still close to the main gallery district , the Belgischen Viertel . |
| 20 | So Mains had to organise a counter-punching attacking system , keeping the attacks rolling usually close to the forward mass with loose forwards and inside backs combining . |
| 21 | true in the actual world iff true throughout a range of groups of worlds reasonably close to the actual world . |
| 22 | If you walk reasonably close to the left side of the path there will probably be a natural barrier , such as a fence or wall , to reinforce the dog 's previous training routine . |
| 23 | We lived in Shepherds Bush in Loftus Road , in the shadow of Queen 's Park Rangers ' ground and also close to the great White City Stadium . |
| 24 | One hand , with its bitten nails , rested on the mantelpiece , also close to the innocent shepherdesses . |
| 25 | No sooner had the Minister of Education , Lionel Jospin , stated that the scarves could not be a motive for excluding the girls from school than the teachers ' union , traditionally close to the Socialist Party , called him a traitor and 50 of his deputies signed a petition publicly disaffiliating themselves from his line and asking for his resignation . |
| 26 | The survival today on the intercrater plains of largely unaltered patches of that ancient crater-free terrain must owe much , as outlined earlier , to the fairly high surface gravity of Mercury , which confines most ejecta fairly close to the primary impact . |
| 27 | Mr Patten , 46 , a former Oxford geography don , is regarded as close to the European Christian Democrat tradition , which is predominately Roman Catholic . |
| 28 | Gripping the edge of the blanket he moved as close to the fearsome head as he dared . |
| 29 | ‘ I like to stick as close to the recorded version as possible . |
| 30 | Get really close to the happy animals at Monkey Mountain , Meerkat Mound and Penguin Bay with dramatic underwater viewing . |