Example sentences of "[vb -s] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the Allianz group in Munich has close to 25% of the Bavarian Hypo Bank , one of Germany 's biggest . |
| 2 | It has close to it a park that provides pasture for a large herd of deer and wild goats . |
| 3 | And yet his view of ‘ Pericles ’ rings close to truth . |
| 4 | Posing as tax-payers engaged in writing , film-making or oddball societies , we tried to enlist the honourable members in activities and causes close to their hearts . |
| 5 | The marathon passes close to the City bomb zone . |
| 6 | A circular walk based on Drewsteignton takes in the dramatic gorge and passes close to one of the most notable curiosities of the area — Castle Drogo . |
| 7 | After crossing the stream turn right along the track which passes close to Trepewet Farm . |
| 8 | The mass of Mercury was first determined from its influence on the orbit of Eros , an asteroid which was discovered in 1898 and which often passes close to Mercury . |
| 9 | The orbit of Mariner 10 around the Sun is such that it passes close to Mercury about every 2 × 88 days . |
| 10 | The village took its name from the Roman road or straet known as the Gartree Road which passes close to the little limestone church of St Giles that now stands all alone on the skyline . |
| 11 | The Huntsville Unit , which is the original prison and is still in use , and known unofficially but universally as The Walls , accommodates close to 1,800 . |
| 12 | Most accidents happen when a cable break occurs close to the ground . |
| 13 | Nu is equal to 1 when the fluid is at rest and greater than 1 when it is convecting ( Section 22.1 ) , and it is apparent that the onset of motion occurs close to the predicted value of Ra . |
| 14 | The convection divides into a series of layers ; nearly all the variation of each quantity occurs close to the edges of the layers . |
| 15 | The lyrics are pleasantly vague except for the curiously annoyed ‘ Candy Everybody Wants ’ , which veers close to wounded cynicism and nothing much else happens . |
| 16 | Bakker also argued that the brontosaur footprints found in the 1930s in the Cretaceous Texas limestone showed left and right footprints close to the trackway centreline , hinting that they walked upright . |
| 17 | litre economy engine , similar to the Corsa 's Eco unit , which produces close to miles per gallon at a constant mph . |
| 18 | It is revealing , for example , to compare Engels ' description of Manchester courts close to the Irk , ‘ from the depths of which bubbles of miasmatic gas constantly arise and give forth a stench unendurable ’ , with Mrs Gaskell 's account of a Manchester court in Mary Barton . |
| 19 | The flora and fauna — the brilliant stooping of hawk or the whistling wing beat of a chough as it sails close to a stance — forms the backdrop and the motivation for our pursuits . |
| 20 | An eruption originates close to the wall , where there are regions , separated in the z-direction , of fluid moving faster than average downstream and fluid moving more slowly than average . |
| 21 | The snow hook is actually on the end of the tow line so that in the unlikely event of the karabiner unhooking — as it did once on me — — the hook stays close to you giving you an outside chance of holding on to the team . |
| 22 | Throughout its early life , the calf stays close to its mother , positioning itself above the midline and forward of her dorsal fin . |
| 23 | Pyjamas seems afraid of them : he stays close to the wall . |
| 24 | By the second year the young orang is becoming more independent , though it still keeps close to its mother . |
| 25 | When the interceptor gets close to its target , it is used as a second radar receiver . |
| 26 | A sound archivist will want a recording which gets close to the sound of the original master-tape . |
| 27 | Another way of asking whether cloze gets close to measuring comprehension is to consider what would happen if the sentences in a passage were randomly reordered . |
| 28 | No one gets close to me . |
| 29 | But if , like me , you really dig heavy rock , then you will thrill with me as Brian Burnett gets close to The Almighty . |
| 30 | Starting in Greater London , it aims to move into main south east population concentrations by early 1994 and its licence requires close to national coverage by 2000 . |