Example sentences of "[noun sg] closer to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a mental health ‘ sus law , ’ invoked on the basis of unreliable predictions of dangerousness , will bring psychiatric practice closer to policing and will undermine the attempts to achieve cure or care , both in hospitals and community settings . |
| 2 | The importance of doing courses at an institution closer to home is not surprising when one considers adults are likely to have commitments which limit their ability to travel long distances or stay away from home . |
| 3 | Susan Cole-King from Burcott has already been ordained ; it was into the Episcopal Church in the United States four years ago , but Mrs Cole-King , who works as a deacon for the Oxford diocese at Dorchester , is looking forward to the day she 'll be able to act as a priest closer to home . |
| 4 | In his view , in the 1970s the drop in children available for adoption led adoption pressure groups to advocate a kind of fostering closer to adoption , with the natural parents having fewer rights to intervene in the foster placement . |
| 5 | Some stormed across in jubilation , others in a mood closer to melancholy . |
| 6 | With its simple , discreet lines it will scarcely dominate the room visually ; but the anonymity ends there , for it will certainly bring the concert hall closer to home than many listeners could possibly have imagined . |
| 7 | In every case the estimate of β was markedly higher for the period closer to delivery , i.e. volatility declines at a faster rate in the fifty days just before delivery . |
| 8 | Now some of them could find fame closer to home . |
| 9 | If the organic potatoes come from Egypt , and if cash-crop farming there is nudging its population closer to poverty , should we actually be eating them ? |
| 10 | Bringing higher education closer to industry and the people here would make a tremendous difference economically , socially and psychologically . ’ |
| 11 | The aim is to bring the theory of a market economy closer to reality . |
| 12 | ‘ And through a land that is every day stepping one pace closer to anarchy . |
| 13 | But now there are new allegations of another scandal closer to home . |
| 14 | But now there are new allegations of another scandal closer to home . |
| 15 | In the days that followed , each one taking the ship closer to home , Lindsey knew she had never been more glad of the solid routine which , if it did n't keep her mind fully occupied , at least kept her hands busy . |
| 16 | There is no need to cross the Pacific to explain the Mayan civilisation ; there is a perfectly simple explanation closer to home . |
| 17 | The two decided Heron 's losses in America and the impact of recession on housing and property closer to home would mean it would run out of money in late 1993 . |
| 18 | While a point puts City closer to safety , a point slows Wednesday down and allows Arsenal to move within three points of them in fourth . |
| 19 | Oxfam 's work has brought the third world closer to home . |
| 20 | No doubt Smith , the Oxford University Australian , who won five caps for the Wallabies , will feel a bit closer to home facing the All Blacks twice in the next 11 days . |
| 21 | The other replay tonight is a little bit closer to home at Peterborough to be precise , Peterborough against Blackpool , that game has just kicked off , no goals in that one at the moment . |
| 22 | Yes , can I bring this argument a bit closer to home and talk about the sexual division of labour within the family , which I think is one of the underlying causes of discrimination against women , and that 's really just a fancy term for the fact that when we talk about child care women do most of the work and men do very little , and really I do n't think we can look at the position of women without looking at how , in fact , child care and caring is organized within the family . |
| 23 | Not only have they suffered the nightmares of the civil war , but as each day has passed , they 've known that their daughter has moved a stage closer to death . |
| 24 | The 24 texts which comprise her first work , Tropismes ( 1939 ) , are in fact closer to prose poems than traditional narrative . |
| 25 | Evangelical opponents of cruelty to animals campaigned against the trade in feathers , along with other forms of cruelty closer to home including cock-fighting and scientific vivisection experiments . |
| 26 | The ruling means that Newall will be a step closer to freedom when the hearing to extradite him to Jersey re-opens on Wednesday . |
| 27 | To choose neither God nor the Devil was an illusion of freedom , for in reality every step of human endeavour , however unwitting , was either a step homewards to God 's kingdom or a step closer to hell . |
| 28 | Maybe I am letting you get a step closer to civilisation , señorita . |
| 29 | ‘ So we have a connection closer to home : Doyle saw something that threatened them . |
| 30 | However , the couple found help for their son closer to home at the Brain Injury Rehabilitation and Development Centre , near BAe 's Broughton plant . |