Example sentences of "[vb pp] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | No reasonable person could have objected — nor did they — when , shortly after the death of the Hizbollah bomber , an impressive steel anti-terrorist shield was installed close to No. 10 . |
| 2 | Two black Honda scramblers were parked close to the workbench and her first thought was to put them out of action , but she doubted whether she could get in a clear shot without exposing her head . |
| 3 | Up to 20 caravans have parked close to the town 's historic cathedral , and opposite the leisure centre and steam train station . |
| 4 | For example , of the 60 or more species of copepods found in arctic plankton , some 50 are of Atlantic origin ; only a very few species penetrate from the Pacific , though some of those have been reported close to the Pole ( Brodsky , 1956 ) . |
| 5 | The greens are tiny and all seem to be located close to , or nearly in , the lake , and the speed of the greens is extremely fast . |
| 6 | Hotel is located close to Spaghetti Junction and includes 35 rooms all with TV , tea and coffee making facilities . |
| 7 | The Reiterhof is a large hotel with plenty of facilities , and is well suited for walkers as it is located close to the mountain cable car . |
| 8 | Sometimes a grammar school and a secondary modern school were located close to one another , even on the same ‘ campus ’ , in order to facilitate the sharing of resources , or the movement of pupils from one to the other . |
| 9 | The sympathetic nerves achieve their effects by releasing the hormone noradrenaline from the nerve-tips , which are located close to the organs that they influence . |
| 10 | High ground on the right , topped by the hall at Heath , pulls back while a sewage works is located close to the left bank but remains hidden . |
| 11 | The town is located close to Manchester 's international Ringway Airport . |
| 12 | These tend to be located close to the company 's headquarters , which , for a foreign-owned multinational company , is unlikely to be in Britain . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Equally , uncertainties over delivery timing can be drastically reduced when subcontractors are located close to the parent and the Japanese obsession with inventory control can easily be extended to suppliers . |
| 15 | The brand new four star Lairesse is located close to the Concerthall , the museums and Amsterdam 's upmarket shopping street P.C. Hoofstraat . |
| 16 | This comfortable modern hotel is ideally located close to the centre of town . |
| 17 | Centrally located close to Chinatown and the business district with Orchard Road just a 5 minute drive away , this hotel offers excellent value for money with a choice of good restaurants . |
| 18 | In this respect , my analysis can be located close to the ‘ Alternative Economic Strategy ’ ( AES ) — which has been given its most lucid expression by the CSE London Working Group ( 1980 ) — in its acceptance of the need for socialists to offer constructive and credible proposals for regenerating economic growth and reducing unemployment even if these appear to fall short of ‘ true socialism ’ . |
| 19 | An in vivo assay showed that the N-terminal sequence containing residues of 1–110 of RAP30 that is located close to a σ homology region interacts with a minimum sequence of residues 62–171 of RAP74 to form a heteromeric interaction . |
| 20 | The plan stresses that new land for development has to be located close to transport routes , have access to water and draining facilities and be attractive to businesses . |
| 21 | In addition , three smaller meeting rooms are located close to the hotel 's Business Centre . |
| 22 | Erm , indeed the first one was why should , why should the new settlement be located close to Greater York , I think the main main ans the answer to that is of course that York is the main centre in population , and employment in the county , by far . |
| 23 | The greatest ocean depths are achieved in oceanic trenches which are to be found both along some continental margins , notably western South America ( Fig. 2.6 ) , and in association with island arcs which are usually located close to the edges of continents . |
| 24 | Mick was perched close to it , with a bowl of hot water and suds at his feet . |
| 25 | Not all were tankers — the second , a South Korean-run oilfield service vessel , was caught close to a Saudi offshore field and sunk . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Despite experiences which have come close to destroying their lives , the three managed to appear remarkably cheerful as they faced the cameras in Moya 's elegant house . |
| 29 | However , in contrast to Nicaragua , where the economy has come close to collapse , in El Salvador both the additional costs of the war and increasing indebtedness have been counterbalanced by very large injections of aid from the United States . |
| 30 | It is not a fantasy to say that Nancy has now come close to being a myth , and with a fiction writer that is exceedingly dangerous , for sometimes I ask myself , did Nancy ever exist ? |