Example sentences of "close to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , in a voice that is neither , he sings ‘ My arms were sure and strong ’ , a glance at his thin arms and meagre frame brings you dangerously close to a belly-laugh . ’ |
| 2 | His neat , Astaire-like side-step to the road where he would rather die under a shining new Merc than to have to go too close to a cripple . |
| 3 | The first difficulties began to appear last year after the Mazowiecki government , without consulting the public or the parliament , decreed that children should be taught religion in schools , in effect making Catholicism close to a state religion . |
| 4 | The acting coxswain persevered , his crew , lifelines secured , out on deck scouring the sea for the divers until they spotted them , close to a creel buoy . |
| 5 | Middlesbrough came close to a breakthrough in the 63rd minute . |
| 6 | What had happened was that , having marched in straight lines over open flat ground for a while , their paths had taken them close to a pebble . |
| 7 | The writing of that book in hospital , I now realise , came close to a meditation . |
| 8 | Close to a quarter of a million small cetaceans were killed between 1976 and 1987 in Japan . |
| 9 | It is pitiful to see the agony of a naïve dog that has nosed up too close to a skunk and been sprayed in the face . |
| 10 | With regard to Calvinism , Ewing had joined Thomas Erskine [ q.v. ] of Linlathen as early as 1836 in opposing predestination , and he later came close to a doctrine of universal salvation . |
| 11 | But since such progress is conceived as immanent to musical history itself , independent of variants of musical practice , social usage and reception , the theory moves dangerously close to a hypostasis of technique ; at the very least it confines the relationship between musical and social structures to the level of the longue durée , since at that level society is ‘ encapsulated ’ in music , while in between , music 's ‘ autonomous unfoldment … follows the social dynamics without a glance or any direct communication ’ ( ibid : 206–7 ) , still less putting itself at the service of particular social subjects . |
| 12 | Moreover , the cable will move with the current , more violently in shallow water and close to a shoreline . |
| 13 | This was weighted with a large wooden tag charred at the end where Father Barnes had put it down too close to a gas flame . |
| 14 | A bat may appear suddenly out of the dark close to a moth . |
| 15 | A further 13 fields are under development or close to a development decision . |
| 16 | Harriet Schleifer is a vigorous employer of selected horror stories : ‘ Thousands of animals are assembled in a single location , close to a building that all of them must enter to die . |
| 17 | If you have car trouble , try to get as close to a telephone as possible . |
| 18 | This year represents something close to a dismantling of the American presidential campaign . |
| 19 | Somerset seamer Neil Mallender came close to a surprise Test cap in New Zealand recently |
| 20 | Polite win for Pompey FOOTBALL : Portsmouth , who went so close to a promotion and Wembley double , have finished the season with a trophy after all . |
| 21 | It lies near Zeta Cygni , close to a pair of stars , 31 Vulpeculæ ( 5.1 ) and 32 Vulpeculæ ( 5.5 , of type M and obviously reddish ) . |
| 22 | Hard-running Cambridge came close to a goal after 24 minutes . |
| 23 | ‘ You know , Anne , you can get too close to a problem and not see it properly . |
| 24 | If one of the big parties wins something close to a majority of seats , it may have two ways of avoiding dependence on either Catalans or Basques . |
| 25 | I hurried along keeping close to a wall and waiting for the inevitable mortar burst that would follow in the path of the jeep . |
| 26 | Plant with the pink-flowered Nerine bowdentii close to a wall in the sunniest position . |
| 27 | If you prefer to improvise , place the growing bag close to a wall , and stretch horizontal strands of galvanised wire between vine eyes . |
| 28 | Several downlights angled close to a wall of paintings ( say 60 cm [ 2 ft ] out from the wall and 60 cm [ 2–3 ft ] apart ) will give a dramatic effect by splashing light on to various surfaces with contrasting shadows in between . |
| 29 | Auto-pattern adjustables ( used on cars ) and girder-pattern spanners have slightly different mechanisms , but both suffer from the same disadvantage as far as plumbing is concerned , which is that they are difficult to use on a pipe close to a wall . |
| 30 | As I lay flat on the grass close to a tree the blood from the Officer 's wound had stained the grass a dull red colour . |