Example sentences of "and [verb] closer [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Mulroney , 53 , took office with an unprecedented majority in 1984 vowing to overhaul the world 's seventh largest economy and build closer ties with the United States . |
| 2 | The move , described as " a balancing act " , was widely regarded as an attempt by the government both to pacify religious fundamentalists critical of recent changes in its policy towards Afghanistan [ see pp. 38725-26 ] , and to secure closer co-operation from the ISI . |
| 3 | And more generally , the relatively highly-skilled and urbanized workers in the metalworking industry displayed greater sustained militancy than did those in the textile industry who were less educated and retained closer links with the countryside . |
| 4 | It includes for the first time a modest amount of money for social science research , and emphasizes closer ties to international research laboratories such as CERN , the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva , and EMBL , the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg , as well as closer cooperation with national research organizations . |
| 5 | In all this , music has a significant role to play in enabling and fostering closer relationships between the denominations . |
| 6 | And pay closer attention to understanding what your body is telling you about yourself . |
| 7 | You say that you value receiving more information and having closer links with your university , and encouraged by that we shall carry on working hard to make that contact easy and pleasurable . |
| 8 | Participation in the strong Western Europe and US opens has widened their pool of talent and brought closer contact with new ideas . |
| 9 | But one explanation that occurs over and over again , and merits closer study , relates to the Holocaust : ‘ It was this Nazi kind of thing … like the gas chambers and what Hitler did … |
| 10 | It is so often in illness and distress that we experience the concern and kindness of friends and family , and form closer relationships because of them . |