Example sentences of "close enough [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lowly ‘ polis ’ , with little or no power in the system , deplores this situation and complains of its escalation , while the detectives moan about the incompetence of the uniform ‘ wollies ’ who never get close enough to their prisoners to extract their own ‘ coughs ’ or admissions and who fail to understand that the system largely depends on the ability of the department to manipulate a statistical norm in detected crimes . |
| 2 | Esther had already whetted his appetite , and it was close enough to his parents ' home for him to return there for lunch each day . |
| 3 | If only she and Michael had more time together , time for her feelings to rise close enough to the surface for her to be sure of what they were . |
| 4 | It was close enough to the cottage for her to take an early morning dip or a quick swim before dinner . |
| 5 | Even Frank Dick , the coach close enough to him to be the one he ultimately asked to be with him for his operation , did not have an inkling until the competition in France that Thompson had not high-jumped in training all year . |
| 6 | Surrounded by breathing , close enough to neighbours to touch knees . |
| 7 | Today we were close enough to the front of the plane to have a newspaper in English , and not have to settle for one printed in a strange dialect of Latvian ( or whatever it is that they use for those that are always left at the end ) . |
| 8 | The pilot dipped the nose of the aircraft and dropped down behind the van , close enough to be able to read its registration number : only a delivery van from the nearby town . |
| 9 | ‘ As long as there was a large enough interval between trains running into London , no train would be close enough to the one in front to be affected by the faulty signal . ’ |
| 10 | But if he and the club feel he is close enough to soundness to allow him to travel and let us decide , we will do that . |
| 11 | He was sitting directly above the cellar door , close enough to the kitchen door to hear their angry words . |
| 12 | He should be able to sit close enough to the table to rest his hemiplegic arm comfortably on it . |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't seem to get close enough to the board to get my foot on . ’ |
| 14 | This not only supplies more power , but also enables you to get close enough to the board to put your foot on it . |
| 15 | Benny Lynch is an example close enough to home . |
| 16 | The stage area at the casino in Le Touquet was almost close enough to the tables to kick the glasses off . |
| 17 | I was , however , able to reassure her on this point , as I could see no prospects of my ever getting close enough to any American for him to even ask my name , never mind ask me to marry him — and in the 1940 's you did have to wait to be asked . |
| 18 | But I was already close enough to the aquatic world for it to become a lifelong obsession . |
| 19 | In short , the CD3 is a solid and meaty sounding deck , verging at times to rich in balance , yet remaining tonally close enough to neutral to avoid censure on the grounds of lack of tonal realism . |
| 20 | Water is drawn over the disc but does not get close enough to the roots to damage them . |
| 21 | I spent most of it attempting to get close enough to him so he could spike my other shin and give me a matching pair . |
| 22 | The figure is close enough to be easily identified and the expressions can clearly be seen , while enough of the background remains visible to place the subject in the setting . |
| 23 | Thus planning permission had been granted ( on 22 December 1975 , close enough to Christmas for no-one to have been paying much attention ) and the period for appealing the planning permission was past before local residents discovered that Raybestos Manhattan would be processing and emitting asbestos , a highly toxic pollutant and confirmed mass killer . |
| 24 | Rain will make a high draw a big help in the sprint and Ashtina ( 4.15 ) is close enough to the stands rail to take advantage . |
| 25 | For the latter lot , only ‘ The Hair Pillow ’ , illuminated by singer Craig Wedren 's glorious , bizarre falsetto , sticks close enough to convention to be more a pleasure than an endurance test . |
| 26 | In others it more commonly invites a searching look into the here-and-now , or at least into worlds close enough to be remembered . |
| 27 | Stephen was close enough to his fellow evangelical , the Prime Minister Spencer Perceval , to be allowed to draft an order in council for a registry in the Crown Colony of Trinidad in 1812 . |
| 28 | Feminist psychologies which work by association , stay close enough to psychology 's concerns to be able to contest them . |
| 29 | The Moot is close enough to the mountains to suffer occasional raids by Night Goblins and so the Halflings maintain a vigilant force of border guards and watchmen who double as warriors in time of war . |
| 30 | If those that are knocked out have opposite signs , what remains may be close enough to what was expected for the element to ‘ guess ’ what it is supposed to do . |