Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] closer to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seagate Technology Inc says it has reached a multi-million dollar agreement with Corning Inc which will enable it to produce a hard disk drive that is sturdier and stores more than conventional drives : it will use Corning' glass-ceramic dubbed Memcor and developed over six years of research and development ; shipments of the material , which is thinner , stronger and more rugged than traditional aluminium substrates , and enables the recording head to be placed much closer to the surface of the disk , will begin shortly and output of drives will start in the third quarter . |
| 2 | Jane Pargeter had come much closer to losing her job than she pretended . |
| 3 | Kelman stands much closer to the new hero , and more is made of what happens in that hero 's head . |
| 4 | BR indeed continued to change the country 's very geography , Gatwick suddenly becoming much closer to London with its Express every fifteen minutes , places like Peterborough and Swindon now almost as accessible as suburbs only fifteen miles away from Piccadilly . |
| 5 | The Church drew ever closer to the State but became a distinctly junior partner . |
| 6 | As the relationship developed , the rhetoric staking claims to differentiated skills and functions remained , but each side moved culturally closer to the other . |
| 7 | Jack Ashley 's Bill would have come far closer to doing so by requiring that belief in consent must be reasonable . |
| 8 | But , as she stretched out a hand to stroke the mare , Maldita moved even closer to Luke , flattening her ears and lashing out at Perdita protectively with a hind leg . |
| 9 | The foam on the back is thinner than that used on the front , the intention being to allow slalom paddlers ( who are good enough ) to pass even closer to the poles . |
| 10 | The young man 's hand moved fractionally closer to the butt of his pistol . |
| 11 | The day she had come to his house to talk about her daughter 's problem he had felt much closer to her . |
| 12 | During Edward 's short reign , England had grown much closer to continental Protestantism and had begun to embrace the nascent Protestant internationalism being fostered by Calvin at Geneva . |
| 13 | And true enough , in the last few days they had grown much closer to each other . |
| 14 | On the contrary , they may well have moved much closer to the type which will be referred to as putatively postmodernist . |
| 15 | Paradoxically the Occupation came much closer to being that . |
| 16 | The atom would be unstable , as its electrons spiralled ever closer to the nucleus , and it would emit its dying radiation in a band of frequencies with no trace of the discreteness shown by [ 2 ] The nuclear atom dealt the coup de grâce to classical physics . |
| 17 | In this way , gas is continually being fed ever closer to the centre from larger radii . |
| 18 | He describes five years of hell and terror , as the bulldozers clearing space for Ceausescu 's Palace came ever closer to his house . |
| 19 | The group came even closer to a Top 40 spot with their next single , ‘ Why Are You Being So Reasonable Now ? ’ . |
| 20 | We have moved significantly closer to concluding an agreement limiting conventional armaments from the Atlantic to the Urals . |
| 21 | Charlotte 's response to her discovery had been so instinctive , and the action it had prompted her to take so urgent , that it was not until late afternoon , aboard a train drawing ever closer to Paris , that she began to consider the difficulties and possible consequences of the task she had set herself . |
| 22 | In manufacturing we are drawing ever closer to completely automated production systems , and these will be examined in Chapter 41 . |
| 23 | Water shortages can occur much closer to home . |
| 24 | For example , ejecta that can be associated with a specific primary impact lie much closer to the primary than would have been the case on the Moon . |
| 25 | Thompson approaches even closer to pluralism . |
| 26 | Birds , like mammals , produce sound by blowing air from their lungs over vibratory vocal chords in the trachea , although in birds the vocal cords are situated slightly closer to the lungs than in mammals . |
| 27 | And here was the bonus : the positive charge of the proton is so effectively shielded that it will now be able to encroach much closer to the nucleus of a neighbouring atom without being repelled ; the chance of bumping into it and undergoing nuclear fusion , ‘ cold fusion ’ , thereby became a real possibility . |
| 28 | They found that allowing for the tax timing option ( as well as stochastic interest rates and different income and capital gains tax rates ) in the no-arbitrage condition resulted in the no-arbitrage prices of the S&P500 moving much closer to the actual prices for the period June 1982 to September 1982 than if no such adjustments were made to the no-arbitrage condition . |
| 29 | ‘ But first we must dig deeper , get much closer to INCUBUS . |
| 30 | He ran steadily , getting ever closer to the village and to the approaching enemy . |