Example sentences of "have [be] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark Wright , who was Mr Souness 's first signing last summer and was made club captain in December , was also confident that the Anfield machinery , which has been close to breaking point several times this season , will run smoothly until the manager 's expected return in July . |
| 2 | Sveticic , a near neighbour of fellow Slovenian soloist Tomo Cesen ( ‘ the world 's greatest mountaineer ’ according to Reinhold Messner ) , had earlier soloed the very hard Rolling Stone route on the same face , and has been close to the tops of K2 and Everest . |
| 3 | However , a child who forms attachments from a young age with a wide group of people , rather than just close family , feels less insecure than a baby who has been close to only one or two people , so try to introduce her to as many people as possible , right from the beginning . |
| 4 | But the company which makes it has been close to bankruptcy . |
| 5 | The ISE still has a paper-based system ( in contrast to America and Japan which have electronic systems ) that at times ( e.g. the 1987 bull market ) has been close to collapse . |
| 6 | The participants were willing and the setting was ideal ; they 'd been close to it often enough , so what was happening now ? |
| 7 | She 'd been close to panicking when Jeff had phoned her about the Sardinia stint . |
| 8 | And he waited , and then he heard one word come back , spoken in a whisper , she must have been close to sleep . |
| 9 | One aspect of the case which is not explored in the judgment is the fact that the appellant was on parole when the offence was committed , although by the time he was sentenced it seems that his licence would either have been close to expiry or have expired already . |
| 10 | This marked a shift from the integrated singular order within which the bardic and similar orders were first defined , though in its disputed origins the guild may once have been close to them . |
| 11 | With Mr Boyd ministering , and Lady Errol attending to her children , Boswell and Johnson passed the time — it will have been close to , or even after , seven o'clock by now — chatting quietly , admiring the sea view , inspecting the pictures , including a portrait of Lord Errol by their ‘ amiable and elegant friend ’ , of whom Johnson observed , concluding some complimentary remarks , ‘ Sir Joshua Reynolds is the most invulnerable man I know ; the man with whom if you should quarrel , you would find the most difficulty how to abuse . ’ |
| 12 | It is therefore significant that this feature is also seen in the Trias of Spain and Morocco , which , according to the most generally accepted plate reconstructions , would have been close to the eastern seaboard of the States . |
| 13 | She would have been close to Alain . |
| 14 | These men must have been close to the king , and no doubt had considerable influence with him . |
| 15 | They must have been close to the same age , but Sandra looked very young , like a petulant child wearing the costume of a grown woman . |
| 16 | Mind you I suppose it would have been close to the house . |
| 17 | These then are the main characteristics which distinguish the early retired from other older workers who remained actually or potentially in the labour market : the former were more likely to have been close to pension age , to report ill health , to be better off financially and to have non-manual occupations . |
| 18 | One of them , Janeth Sánchez Talavera , was a journalist believed to have been close to Sendero leader Abimael Gúzman Renoso . |
| 19 | The conviction for the diversion and misuse of public funds of Gen. Mustapha Belloucif , a former chief of staff said to have been close to former President Chadli Benjedid , was interpreted as a sign that the new authorities wished to prove themselves capable of attacking corruption , even in the military . |
| 20 | He seems never to have been close to his sister . |
| 21 | For the twenty years I knew him he had been close to only three girls , maybe only one . ’ |
| 22 | My personal life had been a disaster : I had had a lousy relationship with my mother ; been frightened of my father ; from time to time my marriage had been close to the rocks and I had been an uncaring father . |
| 23 | He stated that he had later spoken to two observers who had been close to the ridge at the time of the accident , and they had apparently noticed that the wind had , momentarily , markedly increased in strength and had appeared to swirl up the hill towards the ridge , coincidental with the time that they saw the aircraft 's wing drop and the aircraft begin to descend . |
| 24 | Women he had been close to . ’ |
| 25 | If he had been close to the cliff I would not have been able to see him , but I could see the whole section of shoreline , and there was no boat there . |
| 26 | The economy had been close to collapse even before Atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki , and the surrender itself coincided with one of the worst rice harvests for decades . |
| 27 | Having returned to China to work in and among the numerous but fragmented Vietnamese independence factions , Ho 's position as an acknowledged communist in what was an essentially anti-communist Kuomintang was always precarious and for whatever reason he was imprisoned ( in conditions of great hardship ) it seems likely that he had been close to the point of death before he was released thirteen months later : Chen suggests because of communist sympathisers in the local Kuomintang hierarchy . |
| 28 | Pamela and he had been living together for a while and , until recently , Jimmy had been close to a happiness previously denied him ; both as lover and as surrogate father . |
| 29 | Margaret had been close to tears as she 'd responded to her elder daughter 's terse demand for further information — a phenomenon in itself , as Gina knew her mother rarely allowed emotion to disturb the still beautiful contours of her face . |
| 30 | She had been close to her own flat , the streetlights on , but she had fought alone . |