Example sentences of "come [adv] closer to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane Pargeter had come much closer to losing her job than she pretended . |
| 2 | Jack Ashley 's Bill would have come far closer to doing so by requiring that belief in consent must be reasonable . |
| 3 | Paradoxically the Occupation came much closer to being that . |
| 4 | He describes five years of hell and terror , as the bulldozers clearing space for Ceausescu 's Palace came ever closer to his house . |
| 5 | The group came even closer to a Top 40 spot with their next single , ‘ Why Are You Being So Reasonable Now ? ’ . |
| 6 | If this is the right Elizabeth , can we come much closer to him than through the loved child christened at Stratford ‘ Elizabeth , daughter of John Hall , gentleman ’ and her Bible , so tenderly inscribed by her husband ? |
| 7 | However , the Glasgow profile , with a peak age range of 20–24 years , does come much closer to the Wirral peak range of 18–22 years . |
| 8 | This led , through X The Unknown ( 1957 ) , which parodies the complacency of the authorities towards the radiation threat and Quatermass 2 ( 1957 ) , in which the visiting monsters come much closer to taking over the world , to the cycle of horror films that started with The Curse of Frankenstein ( 1956 ) , moving away from immediate contemporary concerns towards mythological narratives that touched some of the same fears and terrors . |
| 9 | Biographies written in the liberal tradition come much closer to recreating the mentality of their subjects than formalistic , hagiographic Soviet equivalents . |
| 10 | Defence ministries , however , come far closer to this ideal . |
| 11 | Unfortunately the definition of a ‘ manager ’ comes rather closer to their task . |
| 12 | Another approach , designed by the earthquake engineering centre at the State University of New York at Buffalo and Takenaka Corporation of Japan , comes even closer to Booth 's analogy . |