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

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1 Doctors balance enthusiasm for more local control of funding as a self-governing trust against fears about clinicians finding themselves too close to budgetary responsibility .
2 The flight crew 's first priority is not to get too close to other aircraft .
3 Mind you , they 're not beyond tackling baby crocodiles and getting , in their curiosity , a little too close to massive snakes — as we saw .
4 The effect of such poisons is to cause some children to be born as monsters , and the people who venture too close to contaminated land sicken and die . ’
5 If this is true , it would suggest that exploration wells should not be drilled too close to obvious faults in order to minimise the chance of finding a tight reservoir .
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