Example sentences of "[adv] closely [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This structure is not so closely packed as the other two . |
| 2 | ‘ Thomas Erceldoun , the squire you so closely questioned on the night of our banquet . |
| 3 | In both cases , it is sensible for the petrochemicals business to handle the products because their manufacture at Wilton is so closely integrated with the aromatics plant . |
| 4 | The dicta in Reg. v. Director of Serious Fraud Office , Ex parte Saunders are not , of course , binding on us , but they are so closely linked to the ratio that we think it would be wrong to depart from them . |
| 5 | Local education authorities in England , Wales and Scotland are subsidiaries of the wider local councils , but those in Northern Ireland are not so closely linked to the rest of local government . |
| 6 | Is it necessary to have an extra ladder of offences so closely linked with the general ladder of offences of violence ? |
| 7 | The early wool trade is so closely associated with the spinning galleries and those who lived in the farmhouses and cottages that a short explanation of the methods of production may be helpful in understanding the way of life of the producers . |
| 8 | A member of a board , although not affected by one of the statutory disqualifications above mentioned , may be so closely associated with the subject-matter of the proceedings as to make it improper that he should act and vote as a member of the board in connection with them . |
| 9 | For example , fugato is so closely associated with the old oratorio style that it would be difficult to use this contrapuntal technique at all without evoking such an atmosphere . |
| 10 | ‘ Second Empire style ’ was copied and transplanted to other European capitals , and even to the New World and it was so closely identified with the Emperor himself that it was sometimes referred to as Style Napoléon III . |
| 11 | At this stage , however , only a small number of men were so closely identified with the Woodvilles that they were perceived as a threat by Richard . |
| 12 | Their contribution is perceived as threefold : they were long-standing rivals of Gloucester , which virtually guaranteed a power struggle in 1483 ; the favour shown them by the king had made them unpopular with the rest of the Yorkist establishment ; and they were so closely identified with the young king , Edward V , that any limitation of their power could only be made permanent by his deposition . |
| 13 | At this stage , however , only a small number of men were so closely identified with the Woodvilles that they were perceived as a threat by Richard . |
| 14 | Their contribution is perceived as threefold : they were long-standing rivals of Gloucester , which virtually guaranteed a power struggle in 1483 ; the favour shown them by the king had made them unpopular with the rest of the Yorkist establishment ; and they were so closely identified with the young king , Edward V , that any limitation of their power could only be made permanent by his deposition . |
| 15 | The journey to the Elysian fields of the next world , so closely modelled on the world of the Nile , was undertaken at night . |
| 16 | But this misses Grice 's essential insight , namely that what the speaker means by U is not necessarily closely related to the meaning of 0 at all . |
| 17 | In fact , the two meetings we observed were concerned with a number of issues more or less closely related to the concerns of the project . |
| 18 | These factors created an original architectural form which was less closely related to the rest of European development than work in Denmark or southern Sweden . |
| 19 | This , he claims , is because of the inherent qualities of the written word writing makes the relationship between a word and its referent more general and abstract , it is less closely connected with the peculiarities of time and place than is the language of oral communication . |
| 20 | One reason for their existence , for instance , may be what has been described above : the fact [ sic ] that writing establishes a different kind of relation between the word and its referent , a relationship that is more general and more abstract , and less closely connected with the particularities of person , place and time than obtains in oral communication . |
| 21 | The mind is less closely associated with the body than is the soul . |
| 22 | For these reasons they tended to be much less closely associated with the advocacy of specific legal and penal reforms than classical criminology was . |
| 23 | The fact that the kadilik was thus closely tied to the secular government was unquestionably a source of some prejudice against it on the part of the more pious elements in the state . |
| 24 | Despite its similar looks , the European mink is not closely related to the American mink . |
| 25 | This difference can not be attributed to more enlightened guessing when subjects knew the title because recall of words closely related to the title and of words not closely related to the title was equally improved . |
| 26 | Blondel in his study Political Parties : A Genuine Case for Discontent ? claims that " in the great majority of cases programmes are unclear , often limited in scope , and not closely connected to the goals which the party proclaims " and he goes so far as to assert that " on balance parties do not really have programmes " . |
| 27 | Technically " non-party " , the administration was described by the Middle East Economic Digest of June 28 as " largely drawn from establishment figures no longer closely associated with the National Liberation Front [ FLN ] " ; some ministers were " linked " with opposition parties or dissident currents within the FLN . |
| 28 | Culturally deprived and still closely tied to the village , the latter did nothing to raise the level of sophistication or political consciousness of the proto-bourgeoisie . |
| 29 | The basic problem was that the switch from autarchy to internationalism had not been fully effected : a free-market economy could not exist as long as its component parts — especially investment , supply of raw materials , and the purchasing power of the domestic market — were still closely controlled by the state . |
| 30 | Its founder , Jacques de Fouchier , is still closely associated with the group as Chairman Emeritus — itself an unsual idea — of the supervisory board . |