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

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1 Several times on my pilgrimage through Biomorph Land I seemed to come close to a precursor of my insects , but , then , in spite of my best efforts as a selecting agent , evolution went off on what proved to be a false trail .
2 Other day-to-day situations that may not be attributed to visual difficulties include the extended time the children may need to complete tasks , their need to come close to the blackboard or to demonstrations , and their apparent clumsiness in certain practical activities and sports such as ball games .
3 The celebration of Artai 's Khanate having properly commenced , the common people were anxious to come close to the path of their newly enthroned lord through their city .
4 He had come close to the mark in his various schemes for the inner cities , but he had always taken great care not to overstep the boundary .
5 However , the club has come close to the brink , surviving winding up orders .
6 A Lurgan solicitor who could speak menacing words in a slow quiet voice , he had come close to the leadership of the Unionist Party , had held cabinet office and retained good links with the paramilitaries and the workers ' leaders who had planned and organized the 1974 strike .
7 The writing of that book in hospital , I now realise , came close to a meditation .
8 Middlesbrough came close to a breakthrough in the 63rd minute .
9 Somerset seamer Neil Mallender came close to a surprise Test cap in New Zealand recently
10 With regard to Calvinism , Ewing had joined Thomas Erskine [ q.v. ] of Linlathen as early as 1836 in opposing predestination , and he later came close to a doctrine of universal salvation .
11 Hard-running Cambridge came close to a goal after 24 minutes .
12 Greg Thomas came close to a wicket three times in his first over in Test cricket , but Greenidge and Haynes survived to give their usual start before Greenidge had to retire with a cut forehead after mishooking Botham .
13 Moral reform , from the 1870s , came close to the centre of political debate — much more so than structural social reform ever did in the nineteenth century .
14 A loose end , Kirov reminded himself as he came close to the man .
15 If she allowed herself to think of James at all tears came close to the surface , and she knew she would never feel the same with anyone else .
16 When the chimpanzees came close to the leopard , he activated its mechanism , so that it started to move its head .
17 A minority of Tories were prepared to concede that there could be exceptions to the theory of non-resistance in extremis , and in this they admittedly came close to the doctrine of some of the more conservative Whigs .
18 Crow-Harry circled , came close to the charcoal shard that was his sister , winked , then rose and was gone , flying to the south , to home , to warmth , to freedom .
19 And they came close to the wall of flint where Wynne-Jones waited , breathless with anticipation .
20 They swarmed round the town at night and came close to the tent in which I slept in the consulate compound .
21 He came close to the stranger and sniffed , as Hazel had done .
22 Through a string of three rooms they came close to the Ballroom ; only an ante-room divided them from it .
23 On Afghanistan , the Guardian of Dec. 13 quoted Shevardnadze as saying : " We succeeded in coming close to an agreement on a very major provision in Afghanistan .
24 We are coming close to the idea of war , not merely as something justifiable under certain circumstances , but as something capable of being holy .
25 He wo n't come close to the lodge .
26 In the mid 1960s a dominant group of Kikuyu , who were close to the Kenyatta family , determined that neither Odinga nor Mboya would come close to the presidency .
27 ‘ But at least I could come close to the song of electricity .
28 Having said that , lately I 've heard him and he 's trying to get back some of his fire , but the originals , the ‘ Disraeli Gears ’ album and the Bluesbreakers … he does n't come close to the fire that 's on those songs any more .
29 If , as recent work has suggested ( Ch.1 ) , the sustained growth of population from the doldrums of the fifteenth century began to affect the economy in the early years of the sixteenth century rather than previously , this would come close to the period when the volume of criticism of enclosures became more vocal and more explicit .
30 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 .
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