Example sentences of "close to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No outlaw would lurk so near a royal palace or so close to a powerful priory . ’ |
| 2 | To achieve something close to a perfect finish , a little forethought and measurement are essential before the first length of wallcovering is cut to length . |
| 3 | Canada 's disappointment at going so close to a memorable Davis Cup triumph was shared no doubt by Neal Frazer and his Australian team , who had faced the long journey to Cyprus for what was always likely to be a somewhat meaningless match against a no longer credible Yugoslav side , without players from Croatia , even before the injury to Slovodan Zivojinovic , in the first match . |
| 4 | Certainly evasion was rife in 1381 , as can be seen from the marked discrepancies between the numbers paying the tax in that year and the figures for 1377 [ A.4 ] , and there is no reason to believe that the payments in the earlier year , although more complete , provide anything close to a total record of the population . |
| 5 | We stopped close to a small graveyard where a tribe of wild goats stared suspiciously at us from between the mounds of earth and bleak wooden crosses . |
| 6 | Can you identify this item found in a ploughed field close to a small stream near the ruins of Inch Abbey ? |
| 7 | Gravity has a similar effect ; a spaceship could skip close to a black hole for what would seem to be a short period of time and then emerge to find that , for the rest of the Universe , millions of years had passed . |
| 8 | Close to a second Tour victory this season , he currently lies in 16th position on the Order of Merit with some £187,883 . |
| 9 | The right hon. Gentleman did not provide time for such a debate because he did not want to embarrass the Tory party so close to a general election . |
| 10 | The question eludes a convincing answer ; yet the intuition persists that behind its lyric grace , its elegant melancholia , " Diffugere nives " conceals something close to a political statement of disillusion and regret . |
| 11 | Close to a rocky outcrop were discovered the remains of two bronze statues covered in marine concretions a draped figure 170cm high with no base and only half its head preserved and a bust with a badly corroded head . |
| 12 | To the right of these doors is the stone commemorating the start of work , close to a superb copy — the original is in the Museum of the Duomo in Palazzo Reale ; indeed , several of the statues and works of art in and on the Duomo are exact copies , with the originals being kept in the museum — of a wood and copper eleventh-century crucifix marking the grave of an early Archbishop . |
| 13 | And I actually think it is coming close to a professional slur on Mr to suggest that he ca n't take an independent view . |
| 14 | Certain works of communication have an artistic quality which engages the psyche of viewers , listeners and readers in a deep way , coming close to a religious experience . |
| 15 | The third , the Orange route , runs to the south , passing close to a primary school and houses . |
| 16 | Here we have an extraordinary influence wielded by two similarly structured and ( as it must seem to many ) identical educational institutions , neither of which offers anything close to a Continental conservatory . |
| 17 | ROCK star Dave Stewart was yesterday declared a civic hero in the city he quit as a teenager after years of school bullying pushed him close to a nervous breakdown . |
| 18 | We arrived at the weapon pit at the side of the road and close to a low wall . |
| 19 | The intersegmental membrane does not permit diffusion , so that a high concentration at the front end of one segment is maintained close to a low concentration at the back of the segment in front . |
| 20 | Jamie Pollock came close to a late equaliser only to be denied with a brilliant save by James . |
| 21 | It also enjoyed a pleasant situation on the south bank of the River Swale , close to a probable bridge carrying Dere Street . |
| 22 | Although Palmer 's theory of the physics of colour was mistaken ( he held there were three discrete forms of light ) , it is remarkable that this entrepreneur and tradesman came so close to a modern account of the physiology of colour vision . |
| 23 | The mantle currently being sampled at a distal ocean island must have undergone fractionation of U/Pb when it was located close to a cooling ridge ( in the case of Madeira ) or a cooling plume head ( in the case of the Cameroon line ) . |
| 24 | Was it a tiny light close to a gigantic light far away ? |
| 25 | The clarity of the phrase is not advanced by the inclusion in Article 7 of the statement that ‘ courts in border areas of States Parties ’ ( meaning , presumably , areas close to a common frontier between states of origin and destination ) ‘ may directly execute the letters rogatory contemplated in this Convention ’ . |
| 26 | By the time of its completion the company 's assets were climbing close to a billion dollars . |
| 27 | A charcuterie in Aurillac or Vic-sur-Cère or some other small but locally important town will possibly provide a pâté the like of which you never tasted before , or a locally cured ham , a few slices of which you will buy and carry away with a salad , a kilo of peaches , a bottle of Monbazillac and a baton of bread , and somewhere on a hillside amid the mile upon mile of golden broom or close to a splashing waterfall you will have , just for once , the ideal picnic . |
| 28 | However , a real particle close to a massive body has less energy than if it were far away , because it would take energy to lift it far away against the gravitational attraction of the body . |
| 29 | Mr Kwame Afo , a leader of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Africa , one of the nationalist groups prominent in the campaign for reparations , estimated the costs to the US Government of proper reparation at some $4.1 trillion — close to a full year of the US gross national product . |
| 30 | When the excitatory interaction is weak , only cells close to a stimulated cell will be excited ; when it is strong , cells over a wide area are excited . |