1.   A sword hung at his side and a plain iron helmet lay close to his hand on a nearby table.

2.   Alpha Herculis, or Rasalgethi, lies close to Alpha Ophiuchi, rather divorced from the rest of the constellation.

3.   It is one that lies close to the heart of any study of the interaction of religion and society.

4.   The south-east lay close to Macedon, across the Adriatic Sea.

5.   This lay uncomfortably close to British Malaya where communist guerrillas were already active.

6.   But this frame had its place when the world lay close to nuclear annihilation.

7.   Even if a Serb village lies close to an Albanian one, there is little contact between the two.

8.   He had suffered a stroke in the visual cortex, which lies close to the base of the brain.

9.   Less than a year ago Bouchard lay close to death in Montreal hospital, felled by a flesh-eating bacterial infection that forced amputation of his left leg.

10.   Most victims were found wearing ceremonial robes and were lying close to what appeared to be a small chapel.