Example sentences of "close to being " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was close to being ‘ one of them ’ and definitely ‘ not one of us ’ because of an acquired list of significant differences . |
| 2 | One of Peugeot 's undoubted triumphs , the 405 Mi16 is close to being the perfectly judged front-wheel-drive sports saloon . |
| 3 | There is an enormous body of data in support of the theory and it is as close to being a factual representation of the nature of evolutionary change as any theory can be . |
| 4 | If you are , or are close to being , a higher-rate tax payer , and you discontinue your policy during the first 7–1/2 years , you may have to pay tax on the amount by which the surrender value exceeds the sum of the premiums paid . |
| 5 | If you are , or are close to being , a higher-rate tax payer , and you discontinue your policy during the first 7–1/2 years , you may have to pay tax on the amount by which the surrender value exceeds the sum of the premiums paid . |
| 6 | It even has hooliganism and violence and so must run football very close to being an alternative religion . |
| 7 | Detective Inspector Mike Bennett said : ‘ He was as close to being the perfect rapist as you could get . |
| 8 | PW was not informed until 3 July and immediately expressed its strong opposition to the plan when a rescue was so close to being finalised . |
| 9 | That day , the rain mercifully stopped , but Emerson was close to being late , as he often was . |
| 10 | But Hirst showed he is close to being back to his sharpest again , pouncing on a clever Chris Waddle ball in the 84th minute to beat Alan Kelly . |
| 11 | Homestead were dead close to being a totally hip label about five years ago , even though all their bands wore check shirts and were students . |
| 12 | It 's a mite premature to forecast global success or world domination , but Hyperhead are already close to being essential . |
| 13 | The holder of three scientific degrees — from Oxford , UCLA and MIT , all summa cum laude — in electrical engineering and electronics , Denholm was as close to being an electronics wizard as any man could ever hope to be . |
| 14 | French PABX manufacturer Barphone SA , which holds 25% of the French market for PABXs of less than 25 ports , has said it is close to being taken over by an un-named foreign industrial group . |
| 15 | Since ‘ acceptance ’ , for Hart , involves a critical , hostile attitude , his concept of law comes very close to being the morality of the legal officials of the society or even the morality of the ‘ ruling class ’ . |
| 16 | They both felt , rightly , that the miners were close to being starved into submission and saw little reason to interfere with this elegant process . |
| 17 | In just over a decade , their ambitious goal to reach every village in the islands is close to being realised with more than 4,300 workshops covering a wide range of development issues . |
| 18 | She sounded close to being afraid . |
| 19 | The question was close to being a statement . |
| 20 | Three years after his return from Aden , Nizan got to the heart of his dilemma when he proclaimed : I came very close to being a bourgeois … |
| 21 | Most of the lunar highlands are close to being saturated with impact craters , notably on most of the far side and around the south pole ( Figure 6.1 ) . |
| 22 | LIBF director Brian Bradford said this week that demand for stands had been considerable and the fair was already close to being a sell-out . |
| 23 | Scarborough and , and , and Harrogate are pretty even and they 're also very close to being a quarter |
| 24 | She suddenly started screeching at Bruno , so abruptly that Maxim felt a jab in his spine and knew he 'd come very close to being shot . |
| 25 | ‘ Not when I 'm so close to being happy — ’ |
| 26 | The version of Presentations we 've been looking at is a Beta 2 release , which means that it is very close to being the final code , and it 's expected that only bug-fixes and minor cosmetic changes will take place from this point forward . |
| 27 | He has visited Britain several times but he has never been even close to being caught and I am pleased about that . |
| 28 | The experience comes very close to being mistakenly caught up in a lawnmower . |
| 29 | So this aspect of defence is quite close to being a private good as it is excludable and rivalrous , hence some households build their own shelters . |
| 30 | And even if it was close to being right , say the unemployment is say , twenty percent , it does n't account for like under-employment in the , in the informal sector and things like that |