Example sentences of "closely [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Hexagonal layers of spheres can be closely stacked on top of each other in two ways : hexagonal close packing ( hcp ) or face-centre cubic packing ( fcp ) .
2 Six police authorities , representing a range of policing conditions , will be studied closely drawing on policy documents , interviews and observations .
3 The two exhibitions were both group-instigated , and the individual artists have been closely consulted in relation to the selection and hanging of the work .
4 But er the these production investment activities are associated really with production engineering , er very closely aligned with development and erm unless you can do those between now and the end of nineteen ninety five , when we start the P I phase in nineteen ninety six before you can really make any progress you would then have to do a further year and a half of production engineering so in the new quotations Eurofighter are making a case for what they term a development assurance phase , some advance production engineering work starting later this year and going on until the end of ninety five but when we start P I in ninety six , we can start with a bang and make fast progress .
5 Inlays may be very small in area and are often closely mixed with corrosion products from the metal into which the niello was set , so the analysis technique also has to distinguish the niello inlay from corrosion and the metal of the inlaid object itself .
6 Even magistrates , whose sentencing powers are more closely confined by law , enjoy a considerable degree of discretion within those upper limits .
7 For a moment she stood looking around the wide hall , closely carpeted in dark , velvety blue which lent an added drama to the vivid Impressionist paintings , the apricot-coloured Knole settee .
8 The floral device enclosed by each of the wave-crest pattern borders in the Lion and Stag mosaic , admittedly , are comparable with the ivy leaves linked by a fillet at Middleborough , but the more significant half-flowers are absent , whereas they are closely paralleled at North Leigh , and in mosaic B ( panel B ) , North Hill ( Neal 1981 , No.39 ) .
9 Evidence from successful Japanese companies has suggested that production costs are often closely connected to management practices and operations , rather than the scale of operations within plants .
10 Closely connected with fidelity was liege homage , which the kings were equally determined to extend .
11 Baxter , argued that third party rights could be justified on one of four bases : international servitudes ; third party beneficiary rights ; dispositive treaties ; and , the view favoured by Baxter , a theory of dedication or reliance , which is closely connected with estoppel .
12 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 .
13 A long-term irritant to the police has been the ongoing allegation that some officers have been closely connected with freemasonry .
14 Although the party had a strong aristocratic and agricultural interest , by the 1930s it was becoming closely connected with industry .
15 Closely connected with expressionism , and hence in opposition to ‘ conservatives ’ like Liebermann , as well as with the political left was Herwarth Walden ( née Levine ) .
16 Premack 's tests ( Premack 1976 ) to establish that chimpanzees make rudimentary connections between ‘ states of affairs ’ ( in order not to beg the more refined question of objectuality within them ) which to us appear closely connected by virtue of a cause and an effect , or by virtue of an implicit goal or problem and a means or stratagem , seem to the layman to support attributions to chimps of protean correlates of human categories of thought .
17 Her father was in the anteroom , waiting for her with a dour face and uneasy eyes , but so closely attended by page and chamberlain that barely a word beyond her submissive greeting and his mumbled acknowledgement , phrased as a blessing but uttered like a malediction , was able to pass between them .
18 Whatever the precise position of the person effecting service , his activities will typically be closely regulated by legislation and service by him will be regarded as ‘ formal ’ .
19 The predictions of coiled-coil regions are very closely related between human , mouse and chicken dystrophin sequences ( data not shown ) .
20 By introducing a satellite RNA Ribonucleic Acid ( closely related to DNA ) , it has been possible to establish in a tobacco plant a heritable agent capable of preventing the development of the mosaic virus as it enters the cell .
21 Firstly , after eating a meal gall bladder contraction is closely related to plasma CCK concentrations .
22 The sort of task illustrated above is closely related to estimation tasks .
23 It is the third group which concerns us , since it is closely related to selection methods .
24 It is recommended that there should be a national strategy for the digitisation of materials in research libraries , closely related to user requirements and priorities .
25 They speak a Polabian dialect of the Pomeranian group of Slav languages , closely related to Wendish ( Sorbian ) , Serbian and the vanished Slovincian dialect , all of which are/were related to Polish .
26 Ozone is a gas closely related to oxygen .
27 Twenty-o twenty-two and a hundred and twenty-five I do n't propose to speak to because er they are closely related to Government amendments , but I shall talk about it in another respect , but er seventeen and eighteen are in the theme of what so many Noble Lords have said , including the Noble Lord , Lord , and that is the importance of the local people er being er on these er thes th these these new police authorities and I seek to remove er the five appointed or any appointed people er by the Secretary of State .
28 The orang-utan is the primate most closely related to man ; its lively facial expressions show remarkable similarities to those of humans .
29 As the language of mathematics is so tightly defined , the ability to use mathematics to communicate in a particular language may take longer to develop than we would expect , and this may lead us to underestimate pupils ' grasp of ideas , particularly since language is so closely related to culture .
30 Obviously infarct size and subsequent left ventricular function are closely related to prognosis .
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