Example sentences of "[vb base] close to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sleep close to the stove . ’ |
| 2 | In Moscow at least 50,000 people defied a heavy security presence to stage a march and rally close to the city centre which featured speeches and banners strongly condemning Communist Party leaders , including President Mikhail Gorbachev , and calling for round table talks between the authorities and the political opposition . |
| 3 | International : Russia and Ukraine sail close to the wind on Black Sea fleet |
| 4 | With his own property , it was perhaps easier too for a baron to take risks or sail close to the wind . |
| 5 | Ulph ( 1987 ) points out that those who earn close to the tax threshold will enjoy little or no income effect from the tax cut so that the substitution effect should dominate , causing them to work more hours . |
| 6 | Mountains where the ‘ dragon 's veins ’ run close to the surface , are powerful sources of ch'i . |
| 7 | Great care must be taken to set the hoe up and steer it accurately so that the blades run close to the crop without damaging the seedlings . |
| 8 | The particles travel close to the speed of light and as they pass through the bending magnets they emit radiation , covering wavelengths typically from 0.1 to 106 nanometres , and collimated into the plane defined by the circular machine . |
| 9 | Since charged particles rarely travel close to the velocity of light we may conclude that the magnetic forces are by orders of magnitude smaller than the electric forces . |
| 10 | Get close to the board ( Fig 58 . |
| 11 | Local storms at sea and strong equinoctial tides may affect whale migration routes that pass close to the coast . |
| 12 | A principal feature of the flow as a whole may then be the following : large eddies of the eruption type originate close to the wall as described in Section 21.6 ; as they move away from the wall they become increasingly influenced by buoyancy , until , at large heights , they resemble the free convection plumes to be described in Section 22.7 . |
| 13 | The driver must have seen the prepared patch of ice reflected in the moonlight , for I saw his white face lean close to the windscreen . |
| 14 | Bend the dam and insert close to the siphon . |
| 15 | A clear flight path ; but they are invariably curious and often drift close to the boat . |
| 16 | Notice how , as you turn close to the wind , the rig is pulled across the the back of the board and the foot of the sail brushes the shin . |
| 17 | None of the supply routes go close to the point where Sunderby 's aircraft ditched . |
| 18 | Flying insects keep close to the ground and out of the wind , haunting sheltered valleys and lees of hills , seeking direct sunlight as much as possible . |
| 19 | It 's a doddle if you stay close to the hedge and keep your eyes open . |
| 20 | They stay close to the sea , scavenging on penguin , cormorant and seal colonies , along tide lines , and in rock pools ( Jones , 1963 ; Stonehouse , 1985 ) . |
| 21 | Stay close to the phone for a couple of days . ’ |
| 22 | Sequence analysis of two independent cloning events ( called Thoc1 and Thoc3 ) showed that both have 3' ends that start close to the carboxy-terminus of the POU domain ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 23 | Developments in the world of computing move close to the speed of light . |
| 24 | ‘ Stick close to the hedge , ’ she said , more cheerfully than she felt . |
| 25 | Provided we give a narrow meaning to ‘ intention ’ the law may well for practical purposes come close to the proposition that it is tortious intentionally to cause damage by any unlawful act , but it has developed by way of distinct , nominate torts and it is necessary to retain that division for the purposes of exposition . |
| 26 | The basis of the book is that we are unfulfilled because we 've grown too sophisticated for God , we 're lonely , we 're morally confused , and I think God is the answer for this , it fashions , religion fashions the kind of community in which you 're redeemed from loneliness , it gives you the sense that when you come close to the end of your life you do n't have to panic that you have wasted your life because religion can show you that you have made a difference to the world . |
| 27 | If your dog shows signs of behaving in this fashion then you will need to train it to ignore people who come close to the car . |
| 28 | This movement is usually made more apparent because the head sinks into the shoulders and the hands come close to the body to protect it from some blow , curse or frightening event , e.g. Juliet 's movement after her father has demanded why she is not conforming to his wishes . |
| 29 | ( 1.1 ) We have in fact already come close to the view that mental events are at bottom individual properties , or rather sets of them , in allowing that the interdependent existence of subject and content may be a matter of nomic correlation . |
| 30 | They involve the formation of hairpin-shaped vortices , leading to a second region of intermittent high shear close to the wall ( Fig. 18.3 ) , where the turbulence generation occurs : we can give only this very inadequate summary here . |