Example sentences of "[coord] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do not land behind or close to another glider or obstruction . |
| 2 | The crops were stacked right up to the roof ridge , or close to it , so using almost all the roof space . |
| 3 | Working at or close to maximum rpm , an engine is relying entirely on power ( = torque × rpm ) to overcome resistance and/or accelerate . |
| 4 | The residential arm is also taking advantage of lower land prices to buy sites within , or close to , urban centres , although the target for new sites is they should not exceed a 12-month sales life . |
| 5 | B. S. Johnson 's House Mother Normal ( 1971 ) uses the contents of eight minds at , or close to , this point , and one ‘ normal ’ perspective , to express a multi-faceted range of interpretative possibilities created by a single event in an old people 's home . |
| 6 | And even if you 're parking it in your driveway or close to your home , lock and secure it at all times . |
| 7 | If this occurs on or close to the skin , it can be observed as redness and it feels warm to the touch . |
| 8 | It may have had a certain validity , especially in Scotland with its constellation of key organizations within or close to Glasgow . |
| 9 | For those in social housing in or close to the LDDC , there is little to suggest any short-to medium-term improvement in housing conditions . |
| 10 | Coaches can park on Blackheath or close to the Cutty Sark . |
| 11 | Large shoals may be found on quite shallow reefs or close to the walls of steep drop-offs beyond the protecting reef . |
| 12 | Some need a flue to carry away exhaust gases , but balanced-flue appliances can be easily installed on or close to any exterior wall . |
| 13 | Although for long established homeowners , falling property prices represent merely a paper loss ( likely to be relatively small compared to paper gains made in preceding years ) , those who bought at , or close to , the peak of the boom , will suffer an absolute drop in the price of their homes . |
| 14 | Pack anything you are likely to need en route either in a pocket or close to the top . |
| 15 | The vegetation of the field was analysed by ordination and correlation techniques which showed that only a minor part of the variation in species distribution could be accounted for by underlying edaphic factors , though in the peripheral areas of the pasture the presence of hedges and trees accounted for significant changes in the vegetation — e.g. Dadtylis glomerata occurred mainly in or close to the shade of the trees . |
| 16 | The extinction of many marine foraminiferal and ostracode species at or close to the Eocene-Oligocene boundary could be bound up with the establishment of the layer of cold , deep water in the oceans known as the psychrosphere . |
| 17 | At these times they 're often near water or close to their nests and dens . |
| 18 | In all of these proteins , however , the metal is bound at or close to the surface . |
| 19 | A number of highly conserved glycines and other small residues at the C terminus of GH5 lie at or close to the turn of the β -hairpin , and presumably are required to form the hairpin without steric hindrance . |
| 20 | Boboli is only one of several historic gardens in or close to Florence which are in a lamentable state of maintenance : these include the Giardino dei Semplici , that of the Villa Medicea at Castello , and Pratolino , which is being restored . |
| 21 | These workers were of , or close to , the very poor , from the slums of East London ; they were led by more secure workers and by intellectual socialists . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Scotland has a population of approximately 5 million , most of whom live in or close to cities or towns . |
| 24 | 11 KEYBOARD SOCKETS : For true ease of use , these should be at the front of the machine , or close to the front at the side . |
| 25 | Snowy owls , northern counterparts of the cosmopolitan eagle owls ( Bubo sp. ) are usually sedentary , wintering on or close to their breeding areas . |
| 26 | Of the world 's 32 living species of seals , ten occur in or close to arctic waters ( Stonehouse , 1985a ; see data in Table 5.2 . ) |
| 27 | During the summer breeding gulls , skuas , terns and cormorants feed close to land ; the rest range widely over the ocean , browsing at or close to the surface in single-species or mixed flocks . |
| 28 | There were no sustained views that stress — arising again in the main from discipline issues — could be alleviated by efforts directed at or close to its source . |
| 29 | So far , Coleman 's meetings with Pan Am 's attorneys had been informal , and the information he provided fairly basic , but while poking about in Europe , he became aware that somebody else , either within the DEA or close to it , was also talking knowledgeably about a link between DEA Nicosia and the bombing of Flight 103 . |
| 30 | A further 13 fields are under development or close to a development decision . |