Example sentences of "something [adv] close to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basic theme of this chapter will be that the success of cognitive neuropsychology provides strong grounds for believing that functionalism , or something very close to it , is actually true . |
| 2 | Apart , they could be breathtakingly sharp on the others ' shortcomings but together their individual selves gathered into something very close to a single presence . |
| 3 | It 's a fair bet you would end up with something very close to the 348 . |
| 4 | This produces something very close to a circular argument : a local authority ‘ needs ’ to spend more because it spent more previously ! |
| 5 | I do n't know what that boy is , except he is something very close to Ángel . |
| 6 | Josie looked into her eyes , and saw that this was something very close to the truth . |
| 7 | Unseen by Viola Machin , something very close to a smile wafted over her daughter-in-law 's face . |
| 8 | It 's something very close to what I 'm saying erm and erm I 'm saying perhaps one thing in addition , which is that just as when we look into the future , which , as a historian , I 'm asked to do more often , I think , these days than looking at the past , but when we look into the future , we have different versions of what that future will be . |