Example sentences of "a [adv] knit [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rainforest is a tightly knit ecosystem but one that is only vaguely understood ; which is why damage to any part of it can never be exactly limited . |
| 2 | Asian families , for the most part , are organized in such a way as to keep a firm control over their children , integrating them into a tightly knit web of relationships within the community where religious traditions remain strong and create in the members a respect for norms , seniority and morality . |
| 3 | Compositors with a wage increase of 40 per cent did less well , while typefounders , oppressed by a tightly knit group of employers , were unable to secure a money increase and stayed for seventy years on 18s ( 90p ) a week , experiencing an evident decline in living standards not only in 1795 and 1800 – 1 , but over the last ten years of the wars . |
| 4 | The casts , drawn from Glyndebourne singers of the 1950s and early '60s , with the exception of De los Angeles brought in for Rosina in Barbiere , are part of a tightly knit ensemble . |
| 5 | Michael Middleton , writing in The Spectator , observed that Minton had ‘ translated an essentially elegiac vision into a closely knit architecture of great firmness and richness without the loss of poetic intensity ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ The organization of labor against its employers furnishes workers with a closely knit brotherhood end a formidable enemy upon whom they can project all their aggressions . |
| 7 | The aim should be to recognize that parents are consumers as well as clients and their schools and local authorities are the agents for implementing a closely knit policy of collaboration . |
| 8 | Alan Rough was born and bred in the Gorbals in Glasgow and had his upbringing in a closely knit family that supported the prodigal son from Ballater Street Primary School , to Partick Thistle Amateurs and ultimately to the Scottish International team . |
| 9 | Not far from the railway line lived a closely knit family , Mr and Mrs Gorman and their only daughter , Marion . |
| 10 | There is first of all the question as to whether the EEC through a Single Currency will become an economic union , as directly proposed by Maastricht , or whether , to the contrary , its members will direct their energies into becoming a closely knit association of free-trading independent nation states . |
| 11 | In some respects this method has much in common with the structuralism of the Prague School ; there is an apparently similar interest in elements of deviation , and an apparently similar view of the literary text as a closely knit set of interrelated features . |
| 12 | The students quickly bonded themselves into a tight knit group and they fought , argued , demanded and were encouraged to come back for more . |
| 13 | The focus of the social worker is on the ‘ client system ’ , which may either be a tight knit family system , or a more loosely structured family network , or an informal care network . |