Example sentences of "closer to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the year 2000 this is likely to be approaching 10% of demand , bringing Spain closer to the average level in European industrialised nations but still with considerable potential for further expansion . |
| 2 | The availability of less well-known sports very cheaply has attracted some interesting coverage , which brings the viewer closer to the ordinary competitor . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , the British edged closer to the Triple Alliance and might still be persuaded to take the strain of direct opposition to Russia , if Russia moved . |
| 4 | Since 1970 , the Venezuelan government has encouraged the Piaroa to form larger communities in downriver positions closer to the administrative centre . |
| 5 | In terms of votes , the ITN/Harris exit poll showed the Conservatives on 41 per cent compared with Labour 's 36 per cent — much closer to the final result than earlier polls . |
| 6 | For Nestor , it was a courageous near-miss , an almost-historic encore that placed Canada closer to the final eight than it had been since 1913 ( when Canada made the Challenge round final — with only nine countries competing ) . |
| 7 | This is in miniature the classic blueprint detective story , and it can give more pleasure by virtue of its clues coming closer to the final revelation than sometimes the full-length affair does . |
| 8 | As I got closer to the raised platform at the far end of the church , it was as if the sound was pushing me forward . |
| 9 | In this way we get closer to the efficient solution in which the marginal cost of pollution reduction is equalized across firms . |
| 10 | The creation of a separate Northern Ireland Office in Brussels is designed to draw the Province closer to the European mainstream . |
| 11 | Yet the politics of regional development — the Socialists have poured billions of pesetas into infrastructure projects in the barren south of the country — or the promotion of Spain 's high-speed train , the AVE , put González closer to the European model of public funding for social development , in contrast to the English sterility that , if development can not be privately funded , it should not be done . |
| 12 | ‘ The outcome of a meeting with the ESF was that BASI should be brought closer to the European equivalence . |
| 13 | The major achievement of BM , BH was to move ‘ development ’ closer to the central concerns of ‘ management ’ , and away from the province of the management development specialist . |
| 14 | Quantum theory implies that it would have to move 207 times closer to the central proton to maintain the stability of the atom . |
| 15 | Like Walt Whitman , who became a wound dresser in the American Civil War in order to draw closer to the simple young soldiers he adored and whom he wished to tend , Vincent sought to draw nearer to Christ . |
| 16 | Pascoe tried out several emotions for that , coming closer to the real thing each time — impatience , irritation , concern , anxiety … |
| 17 | But you are brought closer to the real nature of Appenzell and its people if you catch a train on the narrow gauge railway from St Gallen . |
| 18 | Unionist ministers were also able to move the Liberal majority closer to the Unionist view of how the war should be run , notably on conscription and compulsion . |
| 19 | As we grow older and closer to the unanswerable questions concerning our own mortality , it 's hardly surprising that most of us cling more strongly to that which we know and become set in our ways . |
| 20 | The pitch will be moved 15 feet closer to the existing stand and the dimensions increased so that the ground will meet all the requirements needed to stage international fixtures . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As official hostility grew , the RPC drew closer to the Communist Party . |
| 23 | It was rapping in my back as I was pushed past Roger Beeding and Roger de Mornay and closer and closer to the eight steps that led up to the low wooden platform on which was the gigantic cross and the large black-and-white photograph of Rose Fox . |
| 24 | Like those of neighbouring Bouzy , they possess qualities somewhere between the solid , full-bodied and strongly perfumed Verzenay and the smooth , exceptionally aromatic Aÿ but their great strength and vinosity edges them closer to the former than the latter . |
| 25 | On a scale of judicial independence the British courts would be somewhere between those of the United States and the former Soviet Union , but rather closer to the former than the latter . |
| 26 | And William began to run from the approaching cart , which was piled high with the bodies of the plague victims , and as he ran the streets became the familiar streets of his childhood and he knew that all the time he was running from the terrible cart he was getting closer and closer to the dark house by the railway embankment with its shuttered windows and its locked door , and that this was more terrible to him than anything in his history books . |
| 27 | The only subject of any interest is the open cluster NGC 6087 , which lies between Alpha Centauri and Zeta Aræ , closer to the latter . |
| 28 | It is not surprise that ‘ deep green ’ environmental groups , closer to the first view , find it difficult to communicate their concerns to businesses and governments who feel more at home with the second . |
| 29 | Corrosion is severest closer to the outer leaf where damp is more severe and where the rust expands , forcing open the mortar joints , and in extreme cases causing bulging and cracking of the wall which is visible externally . |
| 30 | ‘ Aye darlin' , ’ her husband clasped his knees and leaned closer to the flickering grey screen . |