Example sentences of "come close to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | However , the club has come close to the brink , surviving winding up orders . |
| 7 | Greg Thomas came close to a wicket three times in his first over in Test cricket , but Greenidge and Haynes survived to give their usual start before Greenidge had to retire with a cut forehead after mishooking Botham . |
| 8 | In chilly conditions , P. McReynolds came close to a personal best with a time of 1 hr. 6 mins. 31 secs . |
| 9 | The writing of that book in hospital , I now realise , came close to a meditation . |
| 10 | Somerset seamer Neil Mallender came close to a surprise Test cap in New Zealand recently |
| 11 | With regard to Calvinism , Ewing had joined Thomas Erskine [ q.v. ] of Linlathen as early as 1836 in opposing predestination , and he later came close to a doctrine of universal salvation . |
| 12 | They held on , kept Millwall out ; came close to a fourth but that would have flattered Swindon : 3-1 and a happy new year at the county ground . |
| 13 | He took avoiding action but came close to a third . |
| 14 | Middlesbrough came close to a breakthrough in the 63rd minute . |
| 15 | Hard-running Cambridge came close to a goal after 24 minutes . |
| 16 | Jamie Pollock came close to a late equaliser only to be denied with a brilliant save by James . |
| 17 | Fleming went on to describe how the nasal secretions of the patient ( himself , in fact ) were cultured , and how a round microbe or coccus first grew and then was destroyed where it came close to the nasal secretion . |
| 18 | When the chimpanzees came close to the leopard , he activated its mechanism , so that it started to move its head . |
| 19 | If she allowed herself to think of James at all tears came close to the surface , and she knew she would never feel the same with anyone else . |
| 20 | There was no one in the stable or the yard , but when she came close to the back door she could hear voices from the kitchen . |
| 21 | Because their demands were nil , the Masai could be approached in a way which came close to the Colonial Service 's proclaimed ideal of disinterested benevolence . |
| 22 | A loose end , Kirov reminded himself as he came close to the man . |
| 23 | Moral reform , from the 1870s , came close to the centre of political debate — much more so than structural social reform ever did in the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | He came close to the stranger and sniffed , as Hazel had done . |
| 25 | They swarmed round the town at night and came close to the tent in which I slept in the consulate compound . |
| 26 | Through a string of three rooms they came close to the Ballroom ; only an ante-room divided them from it . |
| 27 | And they came close to the wall of flint where Wynne-Jones waited , breathless with anticipation . |
| 28 | Crow-Harry circled , came close to the charcoal shard that was his sister , winked , then rose and was gone , flying to the south , to home , to warmth , to freedom . |
| 29 | A minority of Tories were prepared to concede that there could be exceptions to the theory of non-resistance in extremis , and in this they admittedly came close to the doctrine of some of the more conservative Whigs . |
| 30 | you came close to the white line . |