Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] together [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , staff appreciate that both fear and grief in the patient and his relatives can be reduced through anticipating the fact that they do not have much longer together and that this time can be used constructively to work through some of their anxieties and other distressing emotions . |
| 2 | The poem we were working on was one of several left unfinished , but I can quote here the first three verses , for their expression of our condition at that time , our sense of being so close together that we were utterly apart from all else : |
| 3 | It was always chilly at the school because the building was made of stone , rather like a castle , and was perched on the top-most peak of a mountain , surrounded by pine trees which grew so close together that it was very damp and gloomy . |
| 4 | For a long moment after the door had closed , Craig and Hari remained motionless , so close together that she could feel his breath against her cheek . |
| 5 | Also there are many binaries in which the components are so close together that no telescope will separate them , and they betray their true nature only by means of the spectroscope . |
| 6 | This is because the two components are so close together that they almost touch , and presumably gravitational strains mean that each is distorted into the shape of an egg . |
| 7 | It is yellowish , with a G-type spectrum , and is actually a close binary , though the components are so close together that no ordinary telescope will separate them . |
| 8 | It is actually a binary , but the two components are so close together that they can not be separated with ordinary telescopes . |
| 9 | The Earth and the Moon are so close together that it has been estimated that the exposure of both planets to asteroids and comet debris has been much the same . |
| 10 | Metallic hydrogen is expected to be produced at very high pressures because the molecules of molecular hydrogen ( H 2 ) will be forced so close together that each of the two hydrogen atoms in the H 2 molecule is attracted to atoms in neighbouring molecules as much as to its partner . |
| 11 | Rather than by using the fist , the greatest volume is attained more easily and also more beautifully by placing the notes so close together that the ear hears no space between them . |
| 12 | The huge drops were so close together that they reflected the light , and the rain billowed and rippled like a silver-white curtain . |
| 13 | From here he could see the crowded harbour quarter , the rooftops so close together that they welded in the heat haze into one whole . |
| 14 | The lines are so close together that two of them can be seen crossing the planet Jupiter at any one time . |
| 15 | Devlin 's hand swung up , he fired three rounds so close together that they might almost have been one . |
| 16 | Taking the last first , there are three villages which are so close together that with any allowance for coalescence , even the one kilometre which I believe was taken in the original look at this problem by the County Council , there would be no possibility of fitting in a settlement er of the size proposed . |
| 17 | At first they seemed so close together as to form an impassable barrier , but as they drew nearer it became clear that they were several yards apart . |
| 18 | At that time , the continents of North America and Europe were still close together and the Atlantic was no more than a narrow strip of sea between the two . |
| 19 | They had been as contented together as could have been expected , he supposed , from a union which had been largely one of convenience and accommodation ; and he would always remember , with a sort of perverse affection , her rather loud voice , her over-daubed war-paint — and , of course , the painful state of those poor feet of hers … |
| 20 | She made believe that they were as happy together as they should be , and was careful to weep only in secret . |
| 21 | You did n't have the baffling and separation then ; everybody would get as close together as they could . |
| 22 | Without slumping forwards , take your arms behind you , holding them up as high and as close together as possible . |
| 23 | There will be certain positions in which such sheets of spheres will lie on each other as close together as possible . |
| 24 | It is best to make these shelves as close together as possible — say , around 10″ , and depending on the depth of shelf and what 's stored on it . |
| 25 | Any archaeological sites not destroyed in this process are likely to be at least as severely damaged by the roots of the trees , which are usually set as close together as is economically viable . |
| 26 | I was told to stand up straight and , as usual , one of the guards pushed my legs as close together as possible . |
| 27 | We 've got those as close together as they can . |
| 28 | There are , in the east Midlands , three towns lying fairly close together that illustrate well the physical consequences of this situation — Nottingham , Leicester and Stamford . |
| 29 | And you could bring them fairly close together and say well I ca n't tell you exactly what the gradient is at that point , but if you draw a tiny little line and take the gradient of that . |
| 30 | His eyes were high , small close together and calculating . |