Example sentences of "[is] [adv] near " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I think Ruth says anything in the hope that it 's somewhere near right . |
| 2 | I know it 's somewhere near Tonbridge Wells because that 's |
| 3 | That 's right near the window yes and all the dust is coming in we 've got to put up with it till Christmas . |
| 4 | I mean , if the bandits on the way here were anything to go by ( ‘ here' , if you want to look it up in your schoolgirl atlas , is somewhere near the Mocapra ) why should the Indians keep their word ? |
| 5 | Detergents and dirty clothes do n't mix very well with food preparation and in any case the most sensible place to position both appliances is somewhere near the bedroom/bath area . |
| 6 | When you breathe something it goes up into your your brain here , what they call the olfactory bulb up here , and this is right near the memory . |
| 7 | There was two thousand pound , Second World War bomb , they found in Walton , which is right near the River Thames which is , like , past Hampton Court , and Mike said that he 'd have to go out there today , and it 's er erm , this guy who he works for , owns a Leisure Centre right beside where this bomb is . |
| 8 | The story begins at Limehouse Reach where Gaffer Hexam , pursuing his trade of recovering dead bodies from the river , finds the drowned man supposed to be young Harmon ; it is upstream near Henley that Bradley Headstone attacks and thinks that he has killed Eugene Wrayburn , his hated rival for the love of Lizzie Hexam . |
| 9 | It 's basically near Victoria Park in n it ? |
| 10 | 110lb ft of torque at 4400rpm may not sound like much , but in reality the G40 is so near this peak figure from idle to red line that the overall effect is much more impressive than a car that makes you wait until the revcounter is half-way round its scale before it gets going . |
| 11 | But it is not just played for easy excitement : this is alarming because it is so near the edge of what is possible , and yet it has just enough in reserve for tremendous final prestissimo . |
| 12 | The average width of reefs found by Daly was about 600 m ( 2 000 ft ) , while wide reefs in the Banda Sea between Celebes and New Guinea , which are between three and four times the average in width , could be explained on the reasonable grounds that the area is so near the equator that temperatures never fell sufficiently to kill the coral . |
| 13 | At Chalton in Hampshire and Cowdery 's Down near Basingstoke , the buildings were more regularly laid out but not extensive enough to be called villages , while at Catholme in Staffordshire and Thirlings in Northumberland , the earlier settlements had not only been abandoned , but probably forgotten when areas of ridge and furrow were laid out over the top . |
| 14 | and that was that 's along near Maxie 's near the post office but it 's a |
| 15 | Cos it 's so near the end of term . |
| 16 | Like many small booksellers , he is not near any of the large chains ' outlets . |
| 17 | The hon. Gentleman 's constituency is not near London , but yes . |
| 18 | Although the image of the Trinity is distorted , its powers are not destroyed and this is the activity of God in the soul — the ability to understand what could be , and to desire it : But it is a question of " so near and yet so far " as Hilton adds that man is not near Christ or in him until he has actually found him . |
| 19 | An RSPB woodland trail is just near the start of the walk and towards the end you 'll come across an RSPB observatory in the old signal box near Penmaenpool . |
| 20 | it 's just near there . |
| 21 | The tow truck eventually arrived three hours later , but broke down on the way to her fiance 's home near Norwich . |
| 22 | Today , as a Dominican nun , she stays fully clothed in long white habit and black wimple , running a disabled people 's home near Biarritz , France . |
| 23 | There 's been no keeping Joanna Trollope away from filming for The Rector 's Wife … most of it 's taken place not far from the author 's home near Cirencester . |
| 24 | Pilot David Moore from Gloucestershire was at the controls of the forty seven year old Spitfire as it took part in an air display near Manchester on Saturday.The fighter plane looped the loop but as it neared the ground it plummeted down , bursting into flames.Firefighters were on the scene immediately , and confirmed that the pilot was dead.David Moore , who was 47 , flew with the Royal Navy for ten years before joining Rolls Royce as a pilot in the mid 1970s.He flew the company 's executives around Europe … but in his spare time he enjoyed piloting vintage planes like the Spitfire , which was owned by Rolls Royce.Today at the family 's home near Stroud , David Moore 's widow was coming to terms with the tragedy : |
| 25 | He was invited to the Bishop 's home near Gloucester Cathedral , but that was where things began to go wrong . |
| 26 | This symmetry can be disturbed if one side of the rug is disproportionately near a wall or piece of furniture , and they should ideally be placed in a central position . |
| 27 | Ten years on , and having lost more than 150,000 manufacturing jobs in the northern region alone , manufacturing is faced with yet another recession , only this time , far from leanness and fitness , it is faced with malnutrition and is dangerously near the point of no return . |
| 28 | If it 's up near the mouth , it may get burst on chin or teeth . |
| 29 | yeah it 's up near Middlesbrough is n't it somewhere up that way . |
| 30 | Which is actually in Chislehurst , I think it 's up near The Bull somewhere . |