Example sentences of "come close to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | However , the club has come close to the brink , surviving winding up orders . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A loose end , Kirov reminded himself as he came close to the man . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When the chimpanzees came close to the leopard , he activated its mechanism , so that it started to move its head . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And they came close to the wall of flint where Wynne-Jones waited , breathless with anticipation . |
| 13 | They swarmed round the town at night and came close to the tent in which I slept in the consulate compound . |
| 14 | He came close to the stranger and sniffed , as Hazel had done . |
| 15 | Through a string of three rooms they came close to the Ballroom ; only an ante-room divided them from it . |
| 16 | We are coming close to the idea of war , not merely as something justifiable under certain circumstances , but as something capable of being holy . |
| 17 | I knew the neighbours complained that the pigeons grew used to coming close to the windows , but I did n't care . |
| 18 | He wo n't come close to the lodge . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ But at least I could come close to the song of electricity . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ( 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 . |
| 28 | No other country can boast the same range of masterworkshop , workshop , village and nomadic rugs , and none even comes close to the diversity of Persian design . |
| 29 | In practice , the Court will rarely refuse a Minute of Amendment unless it comes close to the Proof date . |
| 30 | So , under the aegis of Hegelianism , Biedermann comes close to the view earlier stated by Fichte : it is not the historical as such , but the metaphysical , that makes us blessed — not the historical person of Jesus as God and man , but the metaphysical idea of God-manhood , which is simply exemplified , illustrated , and communicated by Jesus . |