Example sentences of "more closely [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finland was more closely incorporated into the central administration , losing the privilege of being a separate Grand Duchy . |
| 2 | This would revive the 1979 will with its power of appointment , and he thought that that more closely approximated to those intentions than the 1989 will without any such power . |
| 3 | On this basis English became more closely attuned to producing individual citizens capable of full and critically evaluative responses , rather than the professional scholars and readers of the pre-war period . |
| 4 | Raynor , more closely attuned to her now than he would have believed possible , felt the strength and the sudden arrogance and the automatic shouldering of a burden , and knew that it was this quality , this mastery , that set her so much apart . |
| 5 | Theoretical ideas are connected to the world by a translation into an empirical language more closely attuned to the observable world . |
| 6 | This method more closely agrees with the language model suggested by Marslen-Wilson ( 1975 ) . |
| 7 | The applications and methods course , on the other hand , seems more closely tailored to the needs of postgraduate history students . |
| 8 | It was more closely mapped in the new Regulations for Further Education in 1946 , with Local Education Authorities given responsibility for initiatives in conjunction with the universities and voluntary bodies . |
| 9 | The conference will seek to identify ways in which emerging technology can be more closely geared to end-user needs . |
| 10 | Waste regulation authorities will be more closely scrutinised by the inspectorate and councils will have to plan for recycling , for which they will also be given wider powers . |
| 11 | Certainly this definition would cover the Croat units , which were more closely integrated with German forces than any other Yugoslav formations , and it would provide McCreery and Keightley with the authorization they required . |
| 12 | As my right hon. Friend said in his statement on 10 December , our aim is that the naval reserves should be ’ streamlined but more closely integrated with the Royal Navy . ’ |
| 13 | As the scale of local government grew and the environment began to change more rapidly , it became apparent that services needed to be more closely integrated in order that they would meet the needs of the environment . |
| 14 | A chip built with quiterons would need to lose far less heat than a conventional one , so the devices could be more closely packed on a chip . |
| 15 | Returning to our work Sid and I became more and more closely connected with Radio Station 1OAB and during the Annual General Meeting of the association that year I was appointed Programme Director . |
| 16 | It was something more closely connected with the piper … |
| 17 | The sense of an expression is more closely connected with its actual meaning , and is roughly equivalent to the content of the expression . |
| 18 | Given the paucity and poverty of the parish clergy , the Orders were more closely connected with everyday religious life than is imagined . |
| 19 | Another approach which was more closely connected with general education in schools than with vocational training and employment training came from the Audit Commission ( 1989 ) . |
| 20 | The Incorporation of Weavers could not be more closely connected with carpets and it was under their aegis that Stoddard Templeton took part . |
| 21 | Léger determined that in future the motifs of his paintings would be more closely connected to working people . |
| 22 | Social services were more closely involved through their provision of home care services , although this did not necessarily mean that a social worker was appointed . |
| 23 | Among the more comprehensive books on twentieth-century Mexican art in recent years , Shifra Goldman only mentions him in passing , Luis Cardoza y Aragón says little more than that Gironella ‘ escapes him ’ , and Ida Rodriguez Prampolini dismisses him from her discussion of Mexican surrealism as an ‘ international ’ artist , more closely related to Spain than to Mexico . |
| 24 | Toucans live in the forests of South and Central America and are more closely related to woodpeckers than to hornbills . |
| 25 | The giant predators that walked on their hind legs ( Tyrannosaurus , Allosaurus and other theropods ) share structures of the hip bones with the sauropods that show they are more closely related to them than to the rest of the dinosaurs . |
| 26 | The French system , though still rather broad-brush in its approach because each individual Commune is usually allocated entirely to a zone , is more closely related to natural handicap than the UK system . |
| 27 | There was a tendency for both to be referred to as the Wild White or Park cattle but there are noticeable differences between them and it has been firmly established , by cytogenetic and other tests , that the British White is no more closely related to the White Park than are other British breeds . |
| 28 | In so doing the quality of the service can be improved by ensuring that the objectives for individual placements are more closely related to the needs of the school and that there is support for implementing the outcomes of the experience . |
| 29 | Worker bees are three times more closely related to their full sisters than to their half sisters , so workers could enhance their fitness by raising a full sister as the new queen when the colony swarms . |
| 30 | The clubmosses , which created most of the coal seams , are more closely related to ferns than they are to pine trees , and oil — from which most synthetics are obtained — is not derived from plants at all . |