Example sentences of "so closely to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are stone pots and earthenware ones with luxury glazes , ancient pots that you find at house sales in the country , and , of course , plastic pots which now come textured and coloured so closely to terracotta that they can not be told apart . |
| 2 | Few species have adapted so closely to their particular rivers as caddisflies , stoneflies , and mayflies , which , in their turn , have been cunningly imitated for bait by generations of fishermen . |
| 3 | Such revolutionaries also complain that by adhering so closely to the old subject divisions , in the past characteristic more of GCE O levels than of the CSE , those who devised the new examination missed a great opportunity . |
| 4 | ‘ I STILL ache with a longing to know just what Morrissey 's minions see in the man , what special stardust quality does he possess to endear him so closely to their palpitating hearts . |
| 5 | In West Germany the leader of the opposition , Kurt Schumacher , and his Social Democrat Party rejected entry on nationalist grounds , arguing that by binding the country so closely to western states which were also members of a military alliance led by the United States , Adenauer was making the possibility of German reunification even more difficult and remote . |
| 6 | The link between awareness of beauty and recognition of the moral good was a fundamental aspect of Plato 's ethical theory , but few writers since Plato have tied awareness of beauty in nature so closely to a deeper notion of the good . |
| 7 | Since the unions were tied so closely to the Labour Party , this was important for the party 's standing in the election . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the rewritten version conforms so closely to the original , with just isolated words changed , that it can not reasonably be called a paraphrase . |
| 9 | The only important thing , as far as she was concerned , was the gleaming silvery glow in his hooded grey eyes , and the warmth of the hard body pressed so closely to her own . |
| 10 | But it took her some moments to understand exactly what he was saying , her senses reeling at the warmth of the hard naked chest pressed so closely to her soft breasts , her nostrils savouring the erotic , musky scent of his skin . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , no ! ’ he gave a deep rumble of laughter , the sound echoing menacingly in her ear , which was pressed so closely to his broad chest . |