Example sentences of "[noun pl] close [prep] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a most luxurious , hotel set in large gardens close to a complex of pools . |
| 2 | More importantly , it has brought the two companies close to the brink of financial disaster . |
| 3 | Flexibility and the location of ligand-binding sites close to the top of adhesion molecules may be a general feature of their organization . |
| 4 | The main lines of Turkish mines were laid in the Narrows , but on 8 March a small Turkish vessel had laid another line of 20 mines close to the shore of Eren Keui Bay . |
| 5 | The days spent in the woods close to the village of Bavent are passing slowly . |
| 6 | To hear it we travelled to Leighton Moss , that wonderful reserve belonging to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds close to the shore of Morecambe Bay . |
| 7 | The depth may seem excessive for plants that enjoy the shallows , but it must be realized that the planting basket will raise the plants close to the surface of the water . |
| 8 | The Belfast campus comprises two large and well-equipped buildings close to the centre of the city . |
| 9 | Geography is housed in its own substantial buildings close to the centre of the University , the libraries and the colleges . |
| 10 | But technological advances by this stage had altered the strategic planning of the United States ; nuclear missile bases close to the territory of its adversary were no longer necessary . |
| 11 | Both sexes produce their reproductive cells in glands close to the base of the second pair of legs . |
| 12 | Sun Microsystems Inc will be building its next-generation workstations and servers out of a family of 64-bit multiprocessor chips that it is designing called UltraSparc , and the chips should take Sun machines close to the end of the decade . |
| 13 | These chips should take Sun machines close to the end of the decade . |
| 14 | Er , open your binder , any ring binder system has the basic functional disadvantage that pages close to the bottom of the rings , are very difficult to write on . |
| 15 | The 300,000 extra jobs created over the seven-year period was in proportional terms close to the rate of employment growth in England and Wales , but for the South-east as a whole the rate was much higher . |
| 16 | Its vineyards , which have grown both black and white grapes for well over a hundred years , form a horseshoe around the Montagne d'Avize , starting with south-west-facing slopes south-west of the village , bending into a bank of north-facing vines at the back of the village and curving round into north-east-facing slopes close to the village of Cramant . |
| 17 | Counts of E coli , and a few rare isolates of other enterobacteria , were low compared with the total flora and were commonly present at levels close to the limit of detection . |
| 18 | This takes protons close to the speed of light , when their energies are hundreds of times greater than that needed to create the mass of a proton . |
| 19 | The Oryx consortium will drill off Crosby while Marathon Oil and Chevron consortia will drill respective fields close to the Point of Ayr off the North Wales coast . |
| 20 | With engines close to the centre of the aircraft body there is very little asymmetric force being exerted when only one engine is producing thrust but with engines widely spaced in the wings , as they are on the Canberra , there is a great deal of thrust on one side and nothing on the other to counterbalance it . |
| 21 | They were received in the Minister 's private flat in one of the narrow streets close to the House of Commons . |
| 22 | Ventilation was provided by slits sited high in its stone-built walls and the gables contained owl-holes close to the apex of the roof ( Plate 1 ) . |
| 23 | There was some slight discussion whether the British should keep Canada or should choose the large French sugar islands like Martinique and Guadeloupe ; very few politicians close to the centre of power thought of giving Canada back to France , but the issue underlined the fact that Canada was unlikely to provide much revenue for the British treasury directly , and certainly would not provide the amount of revenue that sugar for re-export would give at a time when Britain used for consumption or for manufacture all that her West Indian islands could produce . |