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

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1 To start with , his Sonata No. 1 , written at the age of 19 , inhabits the same romantic hothouse as his teacher Franz Schreker — rather attractively and close to early Berg but without the discipline of his concise Piano Sonata , Op. 1 .
2 On May 28 , ten days after they had lost contact and close to complete despair Bonington gave up the search .
3 There he suggests that the extant megalithic monuments are preferentially located in areas underlain by older rock ( without acknowledging that such monuments over younger rock in the south and east Britain might have been destroyed by later development ) , and close to geological faults which he believes cause a luminous aerial phenomenon , sometimes called a UFO !
4 Seafront family run hotel facing the Sea Life Centre , Palace Pier and close to Royal Pavilion , the famous Lanes and conference centres .
5 What is especially interesting about such systems is the possibility that experiments can be constructed which are sufficiently simple and close to theoretical models that routes to chaos can be studied in detail .
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