Example sentences of "close [pron] be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually I reach the road and follow it to its top , surprised by how close I was to the summit of the pass . |
| 2 | So perfect , I had to keep parting the hop bines and leaves to see how close I was to the farmhouse . |
| 3 | ‘ But whenever I see that PG tea advert on TV I think how close I was to real trouble ! ’ |
| 4 | She suddenly realised how close she was to the fortune-teller 's shop and an impulse drew her towards it . |
| 5 | Jane squeezed his arm , and the young man abruptly — shockingly — realized just how close she was to him . |
| 6 | She would n't be laughing if she knew how close she was to disaster . |
| 7 | In all this work , Marx , and to a lesser extent , Engels , foreshadow later anthropology and even run into the same technical difficulties concerning what term to use for pre-capitalist property systems , thereby showing how close they are to modern scholars . |
| 8 | Every active credit user can be assessed on their behaviour and rated against their potential — how close they are to their overall credit limits . |
| 9 | One way out of this dilemma was to adopt conventions which led to definite formulae without worrying too much about how close they were to nature ; and this was proposed by the French chemist Charles Gerhardt in the middle of the century . |
| 10 | She gazed out of the window aware now of how close they were to the centre of the city and Rune 's apartment . |
| 11 | He fumbled his way into the chair provided for visitors and put a hand over his lips so that I should n't see how close he was to tears . |
| 12 | But even the ingenious Dom Pérignon failed to grasp how close he was to radically improving sparkling wine production . |
| 13 | Even as glowing profiles of the 39-year-old cricketer were published and broadcast saying how close he was to his family , he knew he would be moving out . |
| 14 | She climbed down , aware suddenly of how close he was to her , closer than he had been all morning , and when she turned , it was to find him looking down at her , a strange expression in his eyes . |
| 15 | The embalmer glanced to check how close he was to a narrow shelf on which a series of knives were arranged in orderly rows . |
| 16 | He suddenly realised how close he was to her . |
| 17 | How close he was to the truth , and yet how many light-years away . |
| 18 | The information at the centre will permit the board to determine exactly how close it is to achieving these change management objectives . |
| 19 | Depending on how close it is to successful neighbours and the risk of root disturbance , grub the rootstock out . |
| 20 | How effective any given synapse is at influencing the postsynaptic neuron in firing depends on a number of factors — how close it is to the cell body , whether it is on the shaft of a dendrite or on one of the many spines , and so forth . |
| 21 | He knew just how close it was to disaster . |