Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] closer to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In manufacturing we are drawing ever closer to completely automated production systems , and these will be examined in Chapter 41 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He ran steadily , getting ever closer to the village and to the approaching enemy . |
| 6 | What will that newly defined concept mean in terms of moving either closer to or further away from centralism ? |
| 7 | Indeed the Americans soon found themselves moving yet closer to Britain , especially once they discovered that their own initiatives ( not least their pressure on Israel ) still left them at loggerheads with Egypt and the Arab radicals . |
| 8 | These factors the patriotism edging ever closer to chauvinism , the conviction that a Catholic composer must be inherently superior to a non-Catholic , the tendency to let emotion blind the reason are surely relevant when we consider d'Indy 's attitude towards Rameau . |
| 9 | Mr Slieman may still be spending most of his working day shuffling ever closer to Louise , unaware or uninterested in the magic he and his house create . |
| 10 | This new eight-track CD suggests they are veering slightly closer to the normal , becoming a little more rocky . |