Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [prep] close " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gen. ( retd ) Gustavo Leigh Guzmán , a former Air Force commander and member in 1973-78 of the military junta under Pinochet , was shot five times at close range by unidentified youths on March 21 in Santiago , and was taken to hospital in a critical condition . |
| 2 | Five days of close assessment was a very daunting prospect . |
| 3 | Today timed to the minute a policeman wearing similar clothes posed as the motorcyclist detectives believe fired the five shots from close range in a remote country lane in Rushton in Northamptonshire . |
| 4 | Stephen Melrose and Nick Spanos died within minutes as a gunman fired at least twelve shots at close range . |
| 5 | Much more cogent reasons for Ms Brown 's correct conviction are to be found in Lady Diana 's own words , which I quote from Philip Ziegler 's biography and which amply confirms others , just as forceful , that she used to me in the course of our more than 40 years of close friendship : I never responded to his dribbling , dwarfish little amorous singeries . |
| 6 | , whose organisation distributes many of our export products , highlighted opportunities facing the Company when he presented us with a commemorative certificate to mark the Chilton opening and to celebrate over 15 years of close co-operation . |
| 7 | Graeme Woodhatch , 38 , was shot four times at close range as he made a phone call at the Royal Free Hospital in London 's Hampstead in May . |
| 8 | Attempts have been made to distinguish the two forms by close reading of ‘ groups ’ or ‘ sequences ’ within the collection , but such attempts either to arrange the order of the 1609 Quarto into some new scheme , or to read a consistent development within it are equally misguided . |
| 9 | Dean designate of the Academy in Berlin , Mansbach summarised the circumstances leading to the creation of the centre and its goals : ‘ Despite four decades of close relations with the Federal Republic of Germany and cooperation in many academic fields , there is no American research institution in Germany or Austria , while academic contact with former East Germany and Eastern Europe is at a formative stage . |
| 10 | Ross , who scored with a penalty against spirited Otago in what was a very subdued Canadian effort , also contributed a penalty and the conversion to one of two tries at close quarters by no.8 Ian Gordon against North Auckland in Whangarei . |
| 11 | These initial contacts and bribes led to all most thirty years of close political , military an developmental co-operation between Israel and Iran . |
| 12 | He reached the parachutes and killed the observers in two attacks from close range . |
| 13 | Four years of close contact with Leuven University , where Hilary Weedon regularly taught 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate PE students , taking Further Training Weekends for Teachers from Leuven and Brussels Universities , resulted in 4 Belgium students joining our own Summer Course . |
| 14 | There , at Portmore , Taylor completed what he regarded as his greatest work , Ductor Dubitantium , or The Rule of Conscience in all her General Measures , Serving as a Great Instrument for the Determination of Consciences , This work is a manual of casuistry which occupies over 1300 pages of close print . |
| 15 | With the two sexes in close apposition the amoeboid sperm are transferred from the cloaca of the male into the uterus of the female . |
| 16 | His term of office came between those of two Ministers with close associations with Portadown — the Reverend R H Gallagher BA ( whose first sermon at the beginning of his last term in Portadown had a singularly apposite text : ‘ This is the third time I am coming to you ’ II Corinthians 13 v 1 ) and the Reverend W. E Morley Thompson . |
| 17 | Despite 19 years of close co-operation with Kohl , Teltschik was known to have come into conflict with Genscher at the Foreign Ministry . |
| 18 | After 20 years of close co-operation , it would not be surprising if there were a pro-Iraq lobby inside the Soviet ministry of defence . |