Sentence examples for were to be close from inspiring English sources

They were to be close friends until Freud's death in 2011.

I believed that people acted within a defined set of expectations, and that if she and I were to be close, such a relationship would happen only according to precedent, as a May-September romance.

Pro-Brexit Tory MP Bernard Jenkin and Leave.EU funder Arron Banks have both warned that that if the result of the referendum were to be close, the decision to extend the deadline could be challenged by a judicial review.

If the ratio of the observed to the expected number of genes were to be close to 1 for all cells in a 2 × 2 table, it would suggest that at least one study was severely flawed and should be excluded from analysis.

Bridges were to be closed; roads, too.

Highly indebted banks and firms were to be closed.

A second woman told of her worries that clubs for disabled children were to be closed.

The stores are among 164 that Blockbuster's administrators, Deloitte, said this week were to be closed.

"His business is to be close to people," Spitzer says.

The best way to make a bad movie is to be close to the novel.

from Big Night "To eat good food is to be close to God".