Example sentences of "close to being " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In one terrifying episode , Mrs Thatcher and her ministers came close to being collectively murdered in the bombing of the Grand Hotel , Brighton , in October 1984 . |
| 2 | Alone , the two girls were playful as they went about their tasks , mischievous at times , even carefully boisterous ; but as soon as their father came in they would sink into a beseeching drabness , cower as close to being invisible as they could . |
| 3 | The vole , he says , appears to be coming perilously close to being endangered ; and this means that Britain 's wetlands are going the same way . |
| 4 | Sir Samuel , disguised in drag , comes close to being ravished by Sir Formal ; the curmudgeon turns out to have a taste for flagellation . |
| 5 | Predictably , though , there was little resemblence between this defeated Liverpool side and the one that came so close to being knocked out of the FA Cup in the semi-final against Portsmouth at Highbury . |
| 6 | Pringle hovered uncomfortably on 99 , coming close to being stumped and leg before to Salisbury before the vital runs came on the stroke of the close . |
| 7 | An interesting sign of the times was the Ladies ' request in 1937 to have a bar-hatch cut into the lounge , at their expense , but despite Mrs. J. Chalcraft and Miss Lorna Simmons attending a main Committee to put the case , their request was lost 7–3 , although a referendum on the subject came close to being conducted . |
| 8 | Anger was getting close to being out of control , Briant suddenly realized , and he made a conscious effort to push it down . |
| 9 | With his plans close to being finalised , Peckham is diplomatic . |
| 10 | I hope you will agree that in these two instances I have cited from his career — both of which I have had corroborated and believe to be accurate — my father not only manifests , but comes close to being the personification itself , of what the Hayes Society terms ‘ dignity in keeping with his position ’ . |
| 11 | The few in their thirties were well balanced by those of us close to being geriatrics . |
| 12 | It is not a fantasy to say that Nancy has now come close to being a myth , and with a fiction writer that is exceedingly dangerous , for sometimes I ask myself , did Nancy ever exist ? |
| 13 | In any event , the proposal came close to being passed , and failed only because of last year 's legislative jam-up , Helping it along were the customary health-lobbying tactics , such as having Senator Barry Goldwater , still recuperating from a double hip-joint replacement , hobble into a hearing room on crutches to testify on behalf of the proposed institute . |
| 14 | It 's actually too thin to be uncomfortable , funnily enough ; none of the sharp edges even come close to being a nightmare for the rib cage . |
| 15 | The trial unmasked him as a complete charlatan and , in the words of one detective , ‘ as close to being the perfect rapist as you could get ’ . |
| 16 | When Ojomoh boards that plane on December 31 he steps into a new world , the elite strata of an elite sport — not bad for a lad who never saw a rugby ball until he was 13 , ca n't get a first team game and came close to being escorted to a plane by police . |
| 17 | Tom Peters — the top US management guru — cites the example of the US Harley Davidson motorcycle plant , which came close to being put out of business by Japanese competition some eight years ago . |
| 18 | Stupidity is coming pretty close to being a national currency in the US . |
| 19 | But when one track came dangerously close to being ‘ rompalong , knees-up , power-pop anthem ’ the band quickly sabotaged it by sticking ‘ a cheesy drum machine behind it and turning the last two minutes into a total sonic attack ’ — much to the tearful bewilderment of their paymasters , left-field Belgians Play It Again Sam . |
| 20 | The walk outlined here comes close to being a true wilderness area , being lonely , beautiful and sometimes precarious . |
| 21 | FRENCH PABX MAKER BARPHONE CLOSE TO BEING ACQUIRED |
| 22 | The Hudson 's Bay Company was so deeply involved in the struggle with the French in North America , and came so close to being overwhelmed , that nobody stepped forward to try to take its place . |
| 23 | British fascism was to come close to being rationalized as the political revolt of the romantic imagination in the twentieth century . |
| 24 | Newmarket Magistrates told Youds he came close to being disqualified for a speeding offence which warranted a six unit fine . |
| 25 | Knighton suggests that she too came close to being condemned to death , but was spared because of the king 's natural tenderness towards his mother . |
| 26 | Indeed , at times Adorno 's Beethoven comes close to being a fetish : the image objectifies those musical tendencies Adorno wants to privilege . |
| 27 | I was really rather taken with two or three of these , and seriously tempted by Hotwire , which I thought close to being fully achieved . |
| 28 | That Ramprakash should have come so close to being suspended for his Fenner 's folly was sad but instructive . |
| 29 | Overall the Calculator accessory is the only one that comes close to being worth its price , the others are either too basic or liable to crash to be considered seriously . |
| 30 | However , with recorders down to less than £8,000 it does n't take much arithmetic to work out that a company turning over 2,000 slides a year will come close to being better off with its own camera . |