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 | The second movement , a March , has this syncopated atmosphere and a subsidiary theme coincidentally close to Happy Birthday to you ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Labour 's campaign came about as close to pure packaging as is possible . |
| 5 | He likes to bring diabetic patients as close to full term as possible . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | An irrepressible thought surfaces — I am unlikely ever to get quite this close to female genitalia again . |