Example sentences of "more closely [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This method more closely agrees with the language model suggested by Marslen-Wilson ( 1975 ) . |
| 2 | Waste regulation authorities will be more closely scrutinised by the inspectorate and councils will have to plan for recycling , for which they will also be given wider powers . |
| 3 | It was something more closely connected with the piper … |
| 4 | Rather is it more closely related to the problem of alien priories . |
| 5 | Although the serum antigliadin antibody-IgA value was more closely related to the study phase , a negative result could still be found in coeliac disease patients challenged with 500 mg/day of gliadin , a dose corresponding to a ‘ visible ’ amount of daily gluten containing food ( approximately 12.5 g of wheat flour ) . |
| 6 | It is generally true that the kadi was a more " secular " figure than the mufti if only because he was much more closely tied to the state organization than was the mufti . |
| 7 | When ‘ affairs ’ were more closely tied to the home , the wife could gain experience in their management . |
| 8 | In the school system , curricular changes were introduced gradually , but the goal was to make education not only more relevant to everyday life but much more closely tied to the world of work . |
| 9 | Important though this literature is , the main purpose of later sections is to isolate as far as is generally possible the impact of the government budget on the Lorenz curve that would otherwise have obtained , and then to consider proposals that are more closely tied to the poverty literature . |
| 10 | It is at this point , where the routines become more closely aligned with the self and where they appear to be dealing reasonably successfully with the ever-present problem of control , that the habit becomes hard to break and that threats to it will be resisted . |
| 11 | One Washington ambassador of a small West European country says that America kept his government more closely informed of the progress of the ‘ two-plus-four ’ talks on German unity than did the West Germans , French or British . |
| 12 | One of the er matters that er one needs to apply one 's mind to in considering whether or not this land serves a greenbelt function or not , is to look at the land and assess whether or not it is more closely associated with the village or more closely associated with the er agricultural open land beyond the village . |
| 13 | They found that in the United states , Belgium , Thailand and Japan , the decline in the rate of sexual intercourse in marriage is more closely associated with the wife 's age than that of the husband . |
| 14 | Compared with pollination , the process of seed dispersal is more closely associated with the depleting of plant materials . |
| 15 | Much more closely associated with the state than was the case in the Christian churches that owed their allegiance to Rome , Russian Orthodoxy helped to promote both a more communitarian form of politics and a feeling that Russians were a ‘ special people ’ with a particular destiny to fulfil in terms of world civilisation . |
| 16 | The ‘ map ’ also shows that the construct ‘ light ’ tends to stand in opposition to this major dimension of judgment and is instead more closely associated with the sense of ‘ civilization ’ and aspects perceived as being ‘ horizontal ’ . |
| 17 | From the Marxist point of view , a process such as secularisation takes a more secondary role in relation to features more closely associated with the functioning of a capitalist economy , and particularly changes in the class structure . |
| 18 | Inasmuch as teachers by tradition are more closely associated with the planning and delivery of the curricular components of education than with arguments about priorities and about the distribution of resources , curriculum development has been a prime element of professional management . |
| 19 | Outcome in early treated subjects with phenylketonuria is not as good as was thought just a few years ago and is much more closely associated with the quality of blood phenylalanine control at all ages than previously recognised . |
| 20 | First , many people 's experiences are consistent with the notion of ‘ premature ’ physical ageing ; for them , ageing is characterised by a process of ‘ general deterioration ’ which appears to be more closely associated with the length of time since the onset of the impairment than with age itself . |
| 21 | ‘ A trusted cashier committing embezzlement , a minister who evades payment of his taxes , a teacher making sexual advances towards minors and a civil servant who accepts bribes have a fear of detection which is more closely linked with the dread of public scandal and subsequent social ruin than with apprehensions of legal punishment . ’ |
| 22 | The second hand , evidently that of one of Lalande 's assistants , appears also in unique copies of two motets , Veni Creator ( revised version ) and Cantate Domino ( Psalm xcv ) ( part of the Lutz private collection in Strasbourg ) , suggesting that these copies are more closely linked to the composer 's workshop than has hitherto been suspected , despite the collection 's late date ( 1739 ) . |
| 23 | The wealthy nations are going to be better able to use and organise information , whose value will be very much more closely linked to the value of goods . |
| 24 | In this case , the O 2s AO has a much lower energy than either the O 2p z AO or the symmetric combination of H 1s AOs , and is more closely held to the oxygen core than the O 2p z AO . |