Example sentences of "very closely " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many plotless or so-called abstract ballets , by choreographers such as Balanchine , have no specific characters or climaxes but they do follow the composer 's score very closely . |
| 2 | One source said : ‘ He gave an undertaking to the DDRB in his submission last week that we will monitor very closely the effects of the contract in the first year . |
| 3 | The Forum 's programme , which Mr Pozsgay helped to publicise , very closely resembled his own ideas : democracy , an autonomous society , freedom of expression , a proper constitutional order and radical economic reforms . |
| 4 | The Tsaritsyn Commission was set up on 8 August 192 1 , and like its counterparts in other gubernii , were very closely modelled on Pomgol , the all-Russian organ in Moscow . |
| 5 | ‘ The points of entry will be very closely watched and we will co-operate fully with the authorities in Sardinia . |
| 6 | It was the solicitor 's function to investigate the draft contract and to examine very closely the issues which may be raised by it which were often incomprehensible to the layman . |
| 7 | ‘ The first time I saw him we conversed very closely together ; and in the prospect of death he seemed solicitous to prepare for it . |
| 8 | strongly of the opinion that the time has arrived when hasty experiments of a socialistic character , no matter how well intentioned — involving heavy public expenditure — should be scrutinised very closely … . |
| 9 | ‘ Watch very closely , ’ she said . |
| 10 | In the tenth and early eleventh centuries , bishops developed a sacral image similar to that of kings and very closely associated with theirs . |
| 11 | Bob quelled her with a look , but I noticed slightly later and indeed all evening that she stuck very closely to his side , which could have been interpreted as her own insecurity if I had n't remembered Mackie saying that meek little Ingrid never gave Bob much chance to stray with the likes of Angela Brickell and God help him if he did . |
| 12 | It 's strange since it meant , during performances , looking very closely at people I had n't quite looked at before — at the way they move , characteristic positions they stand in . ’ |
| 13 | The two girls were closely seeded and at times , the match was very closely fought . |
| 14 | However , Dr Clarke adds that the secretary of one defence body ‘ did qualify this by stating that doctors may be questioned very closely about their reasons for not taking a patient 's temperature and , taken with other factors , this may swing a decision for disciplinary proceedings against the doctor ’ . |
| 15 | Responses given to this question were linked very closely to changes in family circumstances . |
| 16 | In modern organisms of all kinds , DNA and proteins work very closely together . |
| 17 | The chief reef building animals nowadays are the corals — communal creatures related to the anemones — of which there , are many different kinds ( not all very closely related to each other ) . |
| 18 | In existing plants and cyanobacteria , the two components of photosynthesis are very closely linked , and run as one smooth , continuous process . |
| 19 | Their remuneration comes from this position and takes the form of profits or high salaries and bonuses tied to profitability , so that their financial reward is linked very closely to the success of the firm . |
| 20 | Somewhat later , Mary Whateley , following Pope 's style very closely , suggests that it is not necessary for women to respond in kind to misogynistic satire : |
| 21 | Stuart Altman , a primatologist at the University of Chicago , has found that the quality of the nutrition a young baboon receives determines it later reproductive success very closely . |
| 22 | He concluded that commentary has conformed very closely to the Committee 's preference for a style that is appropriate and complementary to Commons proceedings . |
| 23 | He got himself invited to a large formal dinner party at which one man served the wine and another served all the food , and was tired and irritable , like a wife ; Boy observed all of this very closely . |
| 24 | Before tackling the theoretical problems raised by that question , it will be instructive to look at the volatile critical reputation of Brief Encounter within British film culture , since this can be linked very closely to shifting paradigms of authorship . |
| 25 | It is now recognized that the trachoma agent is very closely related to the organism that causes non-specific urethritis and is responsible for 50 per cent of sticky eyes in newborn babies and for a proportion of cases of salpingitis in women . |
| 26 | In many ways the CPVE conforms very closely to the goals originally set out for the GCSE . |
| 27 | RCA 's Korda Marshall had watched the band 's development very closely . |
| 28 | This is because the area of the brain associated with smell is very closely connected with the limbic area of the brain which is concerned with our most subtle responses such as emotion , memory , sex-drive and intuition . |
| 29 | There are aspects of the scheme which appear either to distort information or to offer less sophisticated information than is required , and which would cause library authorities to examine its cost-effectiveness very closely before theory could be put into practice . |
| 30 | You 're talking now to someone who certainly worked very closely with Mrs Thatcher and was a member of the Cabinet . |