Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] closer to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now there are new allegations of another scandal closer to home . |
| 2 | But now there are new allegations of another scandal closer to home . |
| 3 | Breath in concentrate again keep the ball in the Forest half and edge a few seconds closer to victory . |
| 4 | Moreover , other geographic areas closer to home take priority ( Blasier : 1983 , p. 54 ) . |
| 5 | There is no need to cross the Pacific to explain the Mayan civilisation ; there is a perfectly simple explanation closer to home . |
| 6 | The other replay tonight is a little bit closer to home at Peterborough to be precise , Peterborough against Blackpool , that game has just kicked off , no goals in that one at the moment . |
| 7 | David Fursdon , of Stags estate agents in Devon , where a six-bedroom farmhouse near Exeter with farm buildings and 144 acres is on sale at £290,000 , says : ‘ With agricultural land prices at 50 per cent down , there are some good buys closer to home . ’ |
| 8 | Conversely , poetry is in many ways closer to music than to the more extended and discursive literary forms . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The word is there 's going to be a few more surprises closer to Christmas which makes attendance between now and then damn near compulsory . |
| 12 | The word is there 's going to be a few more surprises closer to Christmas which makes attendance between now and then damn near compulsory . |
| 13 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd has been taking a break from the Bosnian crisis , to tackle less troubled waters closer to home . |
| 14 | Bringing higher education closer to industry and the people here would make a tremendous difference economically , socially and psychologically . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ And through a land that is every day stepping one pace closer to anarchy . |
| 16 | BANGOR moved two points closer to promotion to Senior I with a victory over Down in Downpatrick . |
| 17 | Oxfam 's work has brought the third world closer to home . |