Example sentences of "closer to [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact Marc 's painting after 1911 , with its intense , vibrant colour , and its sense of drama and dynamic tension , was in many ways closer to Futurism than to Cubism . |
| 2 | Conversely , poetry is in many ways closer to music than to the more extended and discursive literary forms . |
| 3 | The ruling means that Newall will be a step closer to freedom when the hearing to extradite him to Jersey re-opens on Wednesday . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The keynote for the last years of Offa , however , is sounded by an event much closer to home than the Carolingian court . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But the picture can be modified if we insert into it the concept of a primeval Natural Man , who lacks the corrupting appurtenances of modern civilization , and is , on that account , closer to Paradise than ourselves . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ People were looking for something closer to nature than races like the Paris-Dakar . ’ |
| 10 | She came closer to Rain as though she wished to speak without being overheard , although they were alone . |
| 11 | I felt at peace with the world , even though by the summer of 1939 Europe seemed to be drifting closer to war and everyone was glued to the BBC short-wave Overseas Service bulletins , or even devouring month-old copies of The Times which had been airmailed to Australia and sent on by ship , together with the Illustrated London News , Tatler , and particular titles ordered by the expatriates . |
| 12 | ‘ She will never come closer to death than she did on Sunday . ’ |
| 13 | Bringing higher education closer to industry and the people here would make a tremendous difference economically , socially and psychologically . ’ |
| 14 | His romantic idea that gangsters closer to reality than the rest of us . |
| 15 | Carinish Court was a safer subject than James , less objectionable than Ralph 's views on racial purity and closer to reality than the history of the Salpertons . |