Example sentences of "closer to [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They hope that today 's announcement of a £650 reward will bring them closer to catching the murderer . |
| 2 | They hope that today 's announcement of a £650 reward will bring them closer to catching the murderer . |
| 3 | LASMO 's CIS group has moved closer to completing its feasibility study in Russia following two recent trips to the republic . |
| 4 | SCIENTISTS are one step closer to discovering the cause of cot death syndrome which kills hundreds of babies each year . |
| 5 | Have Post-war changes in educational policy and provision brought Britain closer to realising the vision of the meritocratic society ? |
| 6 | The IUD comes closer to meeting requirements because , once inserted , it usually remains in place until it is removed by a trained person . |
| 7 | It is designed to act out potential accidents that could occur in a full-scale , commercial reactor , and it claims to come closer to recreating the real thing than any other testing facility . |
| 8 | Biographies written in the liberal tradition come much closer to recreating the mentality of their subjects than formalistic , hagiographic Soviet equivalents . |
| 9 | The ability to diagnose the disease takes scientists one step closer to controlling , preventing or even curing the condition which steals away the memories of a lifetime . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the second surely comes closer to reflecting the realities and passions of the 1930s . |
| 11 | We have moved significantly closer to concluding an agreement limiting conventional armaments from the Atlantic to the Urals . |
| 12 | And that 's one stage closer to seeing animals in the same way . ’ |
| 13 | AND THAT 'S ONE STAGE CLOSER TO SEEING ANIMALS IN THE SAME WAY ’ |
| 14 | But it was plain afterwards that the Israelis had not moved one tiny step closer to accepting the United Nations Commission of Enquiry into the Temple Mount killings last week . |
| 15 | This led , through X The Unknown ( 1957 ) , which parodies the complacency of the authorities towards the radiation threat and Quatermass 2 ( 1957 ) , in which the visiting monsters come much closer to taking over the world , to the cycle of horror films that started with The Curse of Frankenstein ( 1956 ) , moving away from immediate contemporary concerns towards mythological narratives that touched some of the same fears and terrors . |
| 16 | INSPIRED by Warren Whiteman , Essex took a step closer to capturing the Eastern Counties ( Senior ) League title and closed the book on an embarrassing chapter in the county 's bowls history . |
| 17 | Conversely the fewer the candidates , the fewer will be the eliminations and the transfers , and the stronger the probability that such votes as are transferred will stay with the party , which will thus come closer to deriving the maximum benefit from its potential support . |
| 18 | SLOUGH moved a step closer to achieving a League and Cup double when they qualified for today 's final against Hightown by convincingly beating Blueharts 11–1 in the semi-final of the All England Women 's Hockey Association Cup at Milton Keynes Sports Club yesterday . |
| 19 | Perhaps with FRS 1 we are getting closer to achieving this ideal . |
| 20 | This perception seems to come closer to providing an explanation for sex-differentiation in language than explanations based on prestige . |
| 21 | By asking the question , ‘ How much would you like , given that everyone will be charged for the cost of providing public goods ? ’ society can come closer to providing the efficient quantities of public goods . |
| 22 | This investigation will focus on problems of vocal and instrumental scoring that arise in one representative work , Les nopces de village , and on ways to get closer to establishing the musical forces Lully called upon in 1663 . |
| 23 | As it happened both Washington and Beijing were learning some of the skills of crisis management ( as well as " brinkmanship " ) , although a biographer of Eisenhower writes that the United States " came closer to using atomic weapons " in this crisis than at any other time in his presidency . |
| 24 | In a month which saw South Africa edge significantly closer to normalizing its relations with black Africa , de Klerk paid a two-day visit to Kenya on June 8 and 9 , holding talks with President Daniel arap Moi . |
| 25 | Organisers moved a step closer to opening Darlington 's new hospice this week . |
| 26 | Dr Francis Odling-Smee , a lecturer at Brunel University , Middlesex , said his father , when in his late 70s , told him he had never come closer to disobeying an order in his life . |
| 27 | His father told him he had never come closer to disobeying an order in his life , but he was finally persuaded to do so because it was pointed out to him that if the British Army did not send back the Cossacks , the Soviets would not send back British POWs . |
| 28 | The criterion moves closer to asking whether the courts believe that the exercise of discretion was reasonable . |
| 29 | Although the gaps in the evidence surrounding Les nopces de village do not permit unambiguous conclusions regarding the musical forces Lully used in its performance or how they were deployed , it is at least possible to edge closer to answering questions about the scoring . |
| 30 | The blood leakage will dissipate eventually and the blurring will go away , but then there 'll be another leak , and another , and every time it happens it brings me closer to going blind one day . ’ |