Example sentences of "and close to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Moreover , the cable will move with the current , more violently in shallow water and close to a shoreline .
2 The principle of proportion is at the heart of our aesthetic awareness and close to the life principle controlling plant growth .
3 The Hague city centre is only 10 minutes away and close to the hotel is the bustling promenade and boulevard with its infinite entertainment and shopping possibilities .
4 I crossed wet ground and came to a long , open piece of sand , then went on to a place where the trees had branches that were thick and close to the sand .
5 By beating this they could drive themselves through the water but their heavy foreparts must have kept their heads low and close to the bottom .
6 To control the power keep the sail low and close to the water to decrease its effective area and slide one or both feet into the straps whilst lying in the water .
7 This exceptionally well run hotel is situated in a small side road behind the Leidseplein and close to the Vondelpark , the stylish shopping street P.C. Hoofstraat and all the main attractions .
8 Backpackers need to keep the weight high and close to the back , but ski-mountaineers and climbers need the weight to be kept lower to increase stability , although weighty things should be kept close to the back .
9 The Beau Rivage is a comfortable hotel set on the front in Baveno , opposite the promenade and close to the centre of the village .
10 Once part of a watermill , this hotel is just 500 metres from the lakeside beach and close to the centre of Garda village .
11 The school is situated in the student area of the town , near the university and close to the centre of town .
12 Last Monday , as Smith and Muzorewa met in the railway carriage , an ANC man — a methodist minister , like Muzorewa , and close to the heart of the ANC — led the Caux Assembly in prayer for this land .
13 She thought it was the squirrel again , but then realised it was something moving jerkily in the hollow of a decayed tree below her and close to the beech .
14 And close to the poetry of Persia is that of Arabia , so singularly pithy and elegant .
15 Barely audible above the new-found noise of the wheels , he heard the sharp step of feet in the corridor and close to the door of their compartment .
16 The Marine Commandos were well dug in in a wooded area just off the road and close to the village .
17 The Plaza is a modern hotel along a side street off the Ku'damm , and close to the nightlife .
18 As the right leg is lifted on the turn , it should remain high and close to the body .
19 He must be both desperate and close to the end to take such an enormous risk .
20 And close to the end a few people that were hanged a are innocent .
21 Hitherto , it had been achieved by the male cells swimming through water , a process which demanded that the sexual generation be small and close to the ground .
22 Her caravan was at the worst end of the site , surrounded by a sea of mud whenever it rained , and close to the rubbish dump .
23 Between Lord Jim , moored almost in the shadow of Battersea Bridge , and the old wooden Thames barges , two hundred yards upriver and close to the rubbish disposal wharfs and the brewery , there was a great gulf fixed .
24 Keeping up , and close to the sarcophagus , was no easy task , since it travelled along a narrow raised causeway between deep wet rice-paddies .
25 Just 5 minutes from the centre of St Johann , the Park stands in its own gardens by the gondola lift , and close to the summer toboggan run .
26 I knew I was courting disaster without a rope and partner on , so rushed around below the ice cliffs of the snout to see if I could force a route over the smooth slabs and close to the col .
27 EIE has bought 446,000 square feet of offices in two blocks of 11 and 15 storeys which make up Britannic House West , built 10 years ago and close to the Bank of England .
28 The site is the south bank of the river , behind Baddow Road and close to the pedestrian footbridge leading from the Meadows surface car park .
29 Only five minutes walk from central Amalfi and close to the seafront this hotel is on a corner site of the main coast road and boasts an intriguing past .
30 Streams flow abundantly into the little River Axe , and close to the meeting-point of three counties a secluded no man 's land contains the exquisite Forde Abbey , its Cistercian isolation still largely undisturbed .
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