Example sentences of "[prep] something [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And any ‘ green shoots of recovery ’ may well be choked by the tares of something close to a world slump . |
| 2 | The picture that emerges , at least as a possibility , is of something close to the idea of a constitutional monarch , a king whose power was substantially restricted by the overwhelming spiritual , political and economic power of the priesthood . |
| 3 | ‘ People were looking for something closer to nature than races like the Paris-Dakar . ’ |
| 4 | Some children will be reading about something close to their own experience , close to their own emotional world . |
| 5 | It was a miserable business pining for those who had gone and she thought back with something close to horror of the unhappiness she had endured while wishing herself elsewhere . |
| 6 | He was fumbling with something close to his left side . |
| 7 | Pity the poor student faced , last year , with something close to 2000 books that deal with psychology in some way or other . |
| 8 | The young man glared at Harry with something close to resentment . |
| 9 | Gerald Seymour-Strachey looked at him with something close to outrage on his face : ‘ No , no — nothing of the kind . |
| 10 | He glares at Eva with something close to hatred . |
| 11 | And if you look at the sum of the two Z scores times 'd each other , you end up with something close to zero . |
| 12 | The big companies will also be better placed to finance the development of new technologies , turning this traditionally low-tech industry into something closer to chemical engineering . |
| 13 | He had challenged almost everything she had said and what was meant as an informative introduction to a public relations exercise had developed into something close to a public brawl . |
| 14 | It was a measure of the strains of the day , or perhaps of the relief at finding the sympathetic Theodora , that the Archdeacon was precipitated into something close to indiscretion . |
| 15 | It was late afternoon , the micro hones had been taken away , the hall was only half lit ; Karajan sat with the orchestra in something closer to a seance or seminar than a rehearsal . |
| 16 | So it 's actually sometimes thinking about , can I tie in something else to this , which may bring the whole picture , bring it all together , but be creative . |
| 17 | Since my water is very , very hard and alkaline , I decided this was the source of the problem and added rainwater to soften it down to something closer to John 's conditions . |
| 18 | I 'm pleased to see that she 's reverted to something close to her original appearance for the evening , though the casual style now carries designer labels . |
| 19 | While Winston Churchill ( in his 1940–5 wartime government ) and Margaret Thatcher ( 1979–90 ) were very dominant figures in the cabinets they presided over , prime ministers like Clement Attlee ( 1945–51 ) and John Major ( 1990 to date ) seem to have run their cabinets on something closer to a collective-decision basis . |
| 20 | Today many live on something close to the Church 's minimum stipend of £12,200 a year and their accommodation is more likely to be in the council semi mould . |
| 21 | Under his scheme they would be elected by something close to Britain 's first-past-the-post system . |