Example sentences of "at close " in BNC.
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| 1 | His prose-poetry had tumbled into full prose , and he was now engaged on his first novel , under the title of Beauty At Close Quarters . |
| 2 | But that 's because we 're looking at it at close quarters . |
| 3 | The Chancellor is trying to convince his political audience that Britain 's deficit ( now running at close on 4 per cent of national income ) is not a problem ; and to convince the markets not to sell sterling . |
| 4 | Regis and Gary Bannister were both denied at close range before MacDonald spared us extra time with a rising 25-yarder which found the top left corner of Steve Sherwood 's net . |
| 5 | The hallmark of Wyllie 's All Blacks is the ability to drive the ball forward repeatedly at close quarters , sucking in the defence before opening up and ruthlessly exploit any gaps . |
| 6 | The exorcising of guilt and envy at a distance — as between people and peoples , who have no knowledge of one another — is a recognisable method of evading the problem posed by neighbour envy : hence the often observed fact that international and long-range do-gooders are commonly highly uncharitable at close quarters . |
| 7 | It would give the American parent group a chance to examine his potential at close quarters and at the same time he would be able to undergo some training to prepare him for the more elevated positions he was destined to occupy in future . |
| 8 | At close to midnight , when the three of us were already tired , Odd-Knut slipped his snow hook and was gone , so fast I was stunned . |
| 9 | The original windows of the ‘ east ’ gable and the side walls having become low-level lights closely related to the new upper floor , the fine stained glass they contain can now also be admired at close range . |
| 10 | Compartmentation of the interior means that the building is experienced in a new way — details which were once distant ( and which may have been executed in the knowledge that they would not be viewed at close hand ) are seen in ‘ close-up ’ for the first time and in relation to much smaller and more intimate spaces ( Plate 20 ) . |
| 11 | For it is an ethnic conflict , between peoples who see each other at close range . |
| 12 | After this extraordinary eight-frame losing streak , Davis won four in a row to close to only 7-8 , but two elementary mistakes in the following frame , failing to reach the yellow when rolling up behind it for a snooker , and failing to pot a red at close range along the top cushion , prefaced a run of 48 with which Reynolds secured his most notable scalp . |
| 13 | After this extraordinary eight-frame losing streak , Davis won four in a row to close to only 7-8 , but two elementary mistakes in the following frame , failing to reach the yellow when rolling up behind it for a snooker , and failing to pot a red at close range along the top cushion , prefaced a run of 48 with which Reynolds secured his most notable scalp . |
| 14 | The infamous barrage of bouncers at Close and Edrich , Old Trafford 1976 . |
| 15 | Not only does the battered town seem to have been on the receiving end of a good deal of good , honest , no-nonsense coppering , but it gives the impression that a higher authority , God , must have passed over it in the Fifties , blasting it at close range with His celestial hair-drier , to judge from the universally blistered and leprous paintwork on all the buildings . |
| 16 | At the battle of the Alma , he came under fire at close range but survived . |
| 17 | These J Wave scientists are investigating Britain 's club culture at close hand , and Norman Cook is the nearest thing they have to a perfect specimen . |
| 18 | I 've watched a lot of American campaigning at close quarters including the primaries and presidential election of 1980 , the Republican Convention in 1984 ( when I also spent a week travelling with Ronald Reagan ) and the most recent Republican |
| 19 | There is no doubt that Karajan was able to observe musical power-politics at close quarters , having arrived by some malign chance in 1937–8 as a possible rival to the politically recalcitrant Furtwängler . |
| 20 | For various reasons they were wrong ; but illusion of continuity was easily available because they had at least some of their kinsmen at close quarters , met them and socialized with them each day . |
| 21 | Harry and I were tall and strong , not easy to attack at close quarters . |
| 22 | Det Chief Insp Dave Sinclair , of Wiltshire CID , said : ‘ He could have been shot at close range to the device and staggered 20 yards away before collapsing . ’ |
| 23 | Toby Sykes putts boldly and hits a mighty tee shot but too many over-delicate chips , two of them into bunkers at close range . |
| 24 | The implication is that the Frankish foot soldier was skilled in all round weaponry , able to fight at a distance and at close quarters . |
| 25 | We fought at close range , not more than twenty steps apart , and drove the soldiers back upon their main lines , leaving their dead in our hands . |
| 26 | The Inspector had been shot behind the ear at close range , but according to later medical reports , this had not killed the unusually strong policeman . |
| 27 | And as family members we have seen and felt at close hand some of the most intense pains and also pleasures of later life : on the one hand , bereavement and loss , but on the other , the continued mastery of old skills , the creation of new pursuits and interests , the discovery of new friends and of new ways of contributing to the wider community . |
| 28 | However , because I knew her at close quarters only during her maiden years and have not seen her once since she went to the West Country to become ‘ Mrs Benn ’ , you will perhaps excuse my impropriety in referring to her as I knew her , and in my mind have continued to call her throughout these years . |
| 29 | Well , to tell you the truth , I hardly go into Salisbury myself , so I could n't really say what it 's like at close quarters . |
| 30 | On 11 August a Dutch government surveyor , Captain Ferzenaar , made another examination of the island at close quarters , but he prudently stayed on his boat . |