Example sentences of "[to-vb] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even with a new economic miracle somewhere ahead , it will take years for the East Germans ' standard of living to come close to that of their rich cousins . |
| 2 | But setting aside those factors , the overall running costs of injection do begin to come close to those of conventional spreading , over a period of time . |
| 3 | Although Mr Brown , the anti-establishment populist , failed to come close to his win over Mr Clinton in Connecticut two weeks ago , he will undoubtedly fight on as a spoiler until the final primary in California in June . |
| 4 | For one litter of kittens to encounter another , or for one nursing mother to come close to another 's nest , would be a rare occurrence . |
| 5 | Other day-to-day situations that may not be attributed to visual difficulties include the extended time the children may need to complete tasks , their need to come close to the blackboard or to demonstrations , and their apparent clumsiness in certain practical activities and sports such as ball games . |
| 6 | In my 14 years of support I finally got to come close to her in 1991 at Wimbledon when she took time out to meet her fans . |
| 7 | British fascism was to come close to being rationalized as the political revolt of the romantic imagination in the twentieth century . |
| 8 | Waqar had tome to come close to removing Hick 's head and they shaved his wicket with a rapid breakback , but Gower was still flowing when lunch came , England 195 for 4 and still some way from safety . |
| 9 | The proposition is not intended to be an advertising slogan or headline , but the clearest propositions are likely to come close to this . |
| 10 | The celebration of Artai 's Khanate having properly commenced , the common people were anxious to come close to the path of their newly enthroned lord through their city . |
| 11 | He categorizes the transformation of the inexpressible " visceral " need through four stages , ending up with a " compromised " need which requires extensive negotiation with the assistance of a librarian to come close to fulfilling the original visceral need . |
| 12 | Several times on my pilgrimage through Biomorph Land I seemed to come close to a precursor of my insects , but , then , in spite of my best efforts as a selecting agent , evolution went off on what proved to be a false trail . |
| 13 | If the horse is tense ( the first stage is calmness , remember ) then everything is lost — suppleness , free forward movement and so on , until the whole issue is blown out of proportion … just for the sake of the horse not wishing to pass close to something trivial . |
| 14 | Baculoviruses have rod-shaped virus particles containing at least 25 different polypeptides and a large ( 100–200 Kbp ) circular double-stranded DNA genome likely to contain close to 100 genes . |
| 15 | All she wanted to do was to snuggle close to him , but waves of resentment coming from Dana told her that was the last thing she could do . |
| 16 | Krill eggs , 5–6 mm in diameter , are laid near the surface and sink to depths of over 1500 m ; the first few larval stages ( nauplii and metanauplii ) develop at even greater depths before the young krill rise to feed close to the surface . |
| 17 | Given a good breeze , the 3¾ square metres ( 40 sq ft ) of a standard Rokkaku can be allowed to hover close to ground effect where wind speed is lower . |
| 18 | Top of the Red Rose bill was Gerry Sadowitz , a comedian who , if he played Leeds Town Centre , could expect , at £100 per F-word , to lose close to quarter of a million in the course of a routine . |
| 19 | ‘ You really do like to sail close to the wind , do n't you ? |
| 20 | I was born a reject , in the gutter ; was bred in the gutter ; and had learnt , very early on in life , to walk close to the gutter . |
| 21 | SCO is determined to stick close to the Intel trail , whilst dismissing UnixWare as ‘ server-centric , ’ saying ‘ Unixware wo n't hit the Intel market … it is not comparable to Vines ’ enterprise-wide networking capabilities . ’ |
| 22 | When he did finally get to his feet his legs were unsteady and he had to stick close to the tables for support on his way to the door . |
| 23 | ‘ And I want to stick close to the TARDIS , ’ Ace said , appearing on the stripped-down rear platform . |
| 24 | The darkness beneath the cover encourages the worms to tunnel close to the inside of the glass so that you will be able to see them clearly in their burrows . |
| 25 | The Dolphin People shamans know a complex series of whistles that signal the dolphins to venture close to shore . |
| 26 | Like Morrissey in 1977 , many in Manchester felt left behind and even fairly close friends found it difficult to gat close to the band . |
| 27 | Brother Cadfael waited his opportunity to draw close to the abbot 's shoulder as he left the choir . |
| 28 | The problem in the doctors ' surgery , I mean you 've got people taking ill sick children round there with high temperatures and , and they do tend want to park close to the surgery , er and if they see a space they will obviously use it . |
| 29 | She needs only to run close to the form which saw her finish second to multiple scorer Kassab over course and distance last month to turn this contest into a procession . |
| 30 | In my message I told them that I was going to fly close to the control tower to see if they could tell me what was wrong with my port wheel , but again no reply from control . |