Example sentences of "[conj] close the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visual fatigue can sometimes be lessened if the pupil looks away from a task briefly , or closes the eyes for a minute or two . |
| 2 | Unable to impose their idea of common sense on the Daily News 's unions , Tribune managers are now intent on either selling or closing the paper . |
| 3 | In addition to pupil changes there is also the possibility of signalling mood by the degree of opening or closing the eyelids . |
| 4 | The same applies at every level of involuntary or semi-voluntary behaviour , in falling asleep or waking , health or sickness , interest or boredom , welcoming a scent or recoiling from a bad smell , snapping up a useful fact or closing the mind against an awkward one , or in any kind of creative or contemplative ecstasy . |
| 5 | Soldering was valuable for such purposes as attaching handles to vessels or closing the final links of chains . |
| 6 | Or close the wall up with our English dead . ’ |
| 7 | The hon. Gentleman is asking the board either to run down or to close the hospital . |
| 8 | PET ‘ HOTEL HATES ’ ( THE FREQUENT ONES ) * narrow stairs and no lifts * low shower pressure * telephone kiosks built for left-handed midgets * only one plug , down on the floor under the bed and 5AMP * hairdryers on 1m fixed lead from the floor socket 3m away from wall mirror facing opposite direction * just two 40 watt lamps to read and work by * toilet rolls positioned for contortionists only * room service that brings each course separately throughout Dallas * radiators that have n't been on for years * radiators that wo n't go off * basins that take half an hour to empty after you 've cleaned your teeth and you want to shave * stoppers that hang under the cold water tap but do n't reach the drain * stoppers that have no chain so you wallow in the dirty water to find them * toilets where you can sit down or close the door but not both |
| 9 | ‘ The petitioners remark that ‘ the Royal Veterinary College of London is the private property of the subscribers thereto who may continue or close the same at their discretion ; that it is only from their desire to advance the veterinary art that they have allowed their institution to be employed as a College of instruction ; and that thereby the veterinary profession in this country owes even its existence to their establishment ’ . |
| 10 | The reason we are reminded of these historical episodes , rather than any of a hundred others , comes clear only with the surprising and congested line that closes the quatrains about the Wars of the Roses : ‘ But oblivion , not thy forgiveness , FRANCE ’ . |
| 11 | The first part of this course is set at a level that closes the gap which students frequently encounter between Intermediate and Upper Intermediate . |
| 12 | If nothing else you feel for a man blighted by an absurdly exalted image — and one who can make a joke out of it in the wonderful tongue-in-cheek prophecy of The End of the World that closes the album ( ‘ Nostradamus and Jesus and Buddha and me/ We said it was coming/ Now just wait and see ’ ) . |
| 13 | Students say that closing the college , or at best trying to move the facilities elswhere , would be a disaster . |
| 14 | You can learn how to keep the other party happy without giving in … how to make concessions that close the sale … how to use time to your advantage and resist deadline pressures … how to cope with such comments as ‘ All we 've got is £60,000 in the budget ’ or ‘ That 's our price , take it or leave it . ’ |
| 15 | It was held that as he had only paid to avoid seizure of his goods and never voluntarily nor intending to give up his rights to the sums paid nor to close the transactions , he was entitled to recover those payments which were not barred by the Statute of Limitation . |
| 16 | But his playing was studiously uncommunicative and prosaic , unresponsive to the poetry behind the notes — e.g. in the cool Bartokian chords that closed the eighth study . |
| 17 | Sometimes you can find a lid ( operculum ) preserved as a fossil , that closed the aperture when the mollusc withdrew into its shell . |
| 18 | This was the brainchild of Francesco de Carerra , a senior legislator in Padua , and it amounted to a padlock that closed the vaginal labia tight by the simple expedient of passing right through them — or as it was more decorously phrased at the time ‘ locked up the seat of voluptuousness ’ . |
| 19 | I went on down the passage , towards the green baize door that closed the back premises off from the gentry 's quarters , pushed the door open , and trod tentatively into the front hall . |
| 20 | " Hazel , " he said quickly , " that 's a piece of flat wood — like that piece that closed the gap by the Green Loose above the warren — you remember ? |
| 21 | Said I was talking poppycock , had signed the official report anyway and that — from his point of view — that closed the investigation . ’ |
| 22 | From side to side of the field , the army buzzed , like a harp strung with horse-hair , and the sun rose higher ahead above the black forest of pine mixed with alder and birch that closed the battleground at its far end , and within which the Northumbrian army was waiting . |
| 23 | This makes sense when taken together with IBM Europe 's statement that it has excess manufacturing capacity : rather than close the plants straight away , it has thrown them to the market — they will get business from IBM but only as long as they can provide products at the going market rate . |
| 24 | The daughter opens and closes the play on a swing , her hair free but a soundtrack of synthesised chords and foundry clatter emphasising this is no Fragonard . |
| 25 | The last colour , black , is connected with the faeces and closes the circle since it is the colour of decay and of death . |
| 26 | Three joints let it move its gripper to any point in 3-dimensional space ; and then two more let it point its gripper in any direction ; the sixth lets it twist its gripper round the gripper 's axis ; and the last opens and closes the gripper . |
| 27 | He comes in from the stairwell and closes the double doors . |
| 28 | And the toner really does get rid of any of the cleanser that you 've left on and closes the pores . |
| 29 | Matthew puts his marker in and closes the book . |
| 30 | To illustrate , if an individual buys 10 ST3 contracts at 90.50 and closes the position 20 days later with a reversing sale of 10 contracts at 90.55 , the profit is , where the number of ticks gain is 5 ( i.e. ( 90.55 — 90.50 ) /0.01 , where 0.01 is the tick size ) . |