Example sentences of "close to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is , in common sense , something close to a paradox which generates the problem of universals . |
| 2 | Since calls must be made close to a node , then why not simply find a telephone kiosk — must work these days and the cost will only be at the standard rate . |
| 3 | Moreover , the cable will move with the current , more violently in shallow water and close to a shoreline . |
| 4 | I hurried along keeping close to a wall and waiting for the inevitable mortar burst that would follow in the path of the jeep . |
| 5 | We arrived at the weapon pit at the side of the road and close to a low wall . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I chose a situation close to a hedgerow and was soon scouting around for logs or pieces of wood to cover the trench and to give some sort of protection against shrapnel . |
| 8 | I pitched the tent back from the sea , close to a river . |
| 9 | I mean , can you think of any other situation , Pop , when a man gets so close to a woman except when he 's actually making love to her ? ’ |
| 10 | Mr Kwame Afo , a leader of the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Africa , one of the nationalist groups prominent in the campaign for reparations , estimated the costs to the US Government of proper reparation at some $4.1 trillion — close to a full year of the US gross national product . |
| 11 | Twyford Down is a much-loved , fiercely defended ‘ environment ’ close to a city which values its green spaces . |
| 12 | Close to a quarter of a million small cetaceans were killed between 1976 and 1987 in Japan . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Greg Thomas came close to a wicket three times in his first over in Test cricket , but Greenidge and Haynes survived to give their usual start before Greenidge had to retire with a cut forehead after mishooking Botham . |
| 15 | This argument comes close to a constitutional paradox — that people who are protesting against the fairness of the political system may find themselves convicted of serious offences because their mode of protest is a realistic one . |
| 16 | Plant with the pink-flowered Nerine bowdentii close to a wall in the sunniest position . |
| 17 | The intersegmental membrane does not permit diffusion , so that a high concentration at the front end of one segment is maintained close to a low concentration at the back of the segment in front . |
| 18 | CHELSEA Football Club is edging close to a deal with Cabra Estates , its heavily indebted landlord , which could settle their drawn-out tussle over the football club 's Stamford Bridge ground . |
| 19 | Then a group of lesbians were complaining about education — close to a group of feminists . |
| 20 | And any ‘ green shoots of recovery ’ may well be choked by the tares of something close to a world slump . |
| 21 | This modern Club is set on a pine-clad hillside and yet close to a lively and fashionable resort . |
| 22 | To the right of these doors is the stone commemorating the start of work , close to a superb copy — the original is in the Museum of the Duomo in Palazzo Reale ; indeed , several of the statues and works of art in and on the Duomo are exact copies , with the originals being kept in the museum — of a wood and copper eleventh-century crucifix marking the grave of an early Archbishop . |
| 23 | There is a strong thriller element to the novel , particularly in the last part , in which Piero is tracked down by the agents of what is portrayed as something close to a police or military state in the underground corridors of the prison-like block of flats where Charles lives and the fugitive has been hiding . |
| 24 | If you have car trouble , try to get as close to a telephone as possible . |
| 25 | McReynolds close to a personal best |
| 26 | In chilly conditions , P. McReynolds came close to a personal best with a time of 1 hr. 6 mins. 31 secs . |
| 27 | I will begin by telling you that I now live on a farm close to a beautiful little town in Umbria , the region of St Francis . |
| 28 | The writing of that book in hospital , I now realise , came close to a meditation . |
| 29 | The book also moves close to a highly critical analysis of science and yet never becomes anti-science , only anti-scientific : Jones 's own delight in physics enthusiastically drawing the sting out of his own criticism . |
| 30 | When the excitatory interaction is weak , only cells close to a stimulated cell will be excited ; when it is strong , cells over a wide area are excited . |