Example sentences of "a [noun] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt Smith , the Oxford University Australian , who won five caps for the Wallabies , will feel a bit closer to home facing the All Blacks twice in the next 11 days . |
| 2 | Yes , can I bring this argument a bit closer to home and talk about the sexual division of labour within the family , which I think is one of the underlying causes of discrimination against women , and that 's really just a fancy term for the fact that when we talk about child care women do most of the work and men do very little , and really I do n't think we can look at the position of women without looking at how , in fact , child care and caring is organized within the family . |
| 3 | No doubt Sir David is off on another of his trips to an exotic location soon — but for now he 's happy to settle for a spot of exploration a bit nearer to home . |
| 4 | No , you can not prevent it from happening — but scientists are a bit nearer to understanding what goes on at the molecular level . |
| 5 | The magazine will continue to cover American painting , drawings , prints , and sculpture from the Colonial period to 1960 , with occasional attention to decorative arts and architecture , and a bit more to photography . |
| 6 | perhaps a cow about to shit |
| 7 | I agreed , and next day they sent a photographer along to West London Stadium and I was pictured wearing my ‘ Pure Talent ’ tee-shirt with ‘ No Additives ’ inscribed on the back . |
| 8 | But it was only fourteen weeks ago that her mother Snazana came to Britain with her in a condition close to death . |
| 9 | But it was only fourteen weeks ago that her mother Snazana came to Britain with her in a condition close to death . |
| 10 | A classified Landsat TM image ( Chapter 5 ) can be used to derive boundaries of spatial classes such as cropland , woodland and water , and remote sensing provide a means of keeping the data concerning land-surface cover that are stored in a GIS up to date . |
| 11 | Susan Cole-King from Burcott has already been ordained ; it was into the Episcopal Church in the United States four years ago , but Mrs Cole-King , who works as a deacon for the Oxford diocese at Dorchester , is looking forward to the day she 'll be able to act as a priest closer to home . |
| 12 | A speck on a rock halfway to heaven was the top cablecar station , I was told . |
| 13 | performance also improves if the evaluation stems partly from the employee and is a prelude not to recrimination , but to further goal setting . |
| 14 | This was followed by a lurch back to civility and a fast-knotted signature , hard to unravel . |
| 15 | She switches between spoken word , shouting through a megaphone with a sock in it and chirruping like a sweet but overexcitable nightingale , tracing a lineage back to Delta 5 , The Raincoats and The Slits ( marvellous days I can assure you ) . |
| 16 | Some stormed across in jubilation , others in a mood closer to melancholy . |
| 17 | A school , you know , is like — ’ here the headmaster came to a halt , because he had launched into a metaphor without having a metaphor readily to hand ; and in fact he had very few notions of what a school was like — ‘ is like the human body . |
| 18 | There is also a proposal afoot to re-route the Three Peaks Walk across Thorns Gill , which I hope will be rejected . |
| 19 | Ten stations receiving new boats in the past year had meant ten crews undergoing week-long familiarisation courses at Poole , followed by a passage back to station . |
| 20 | Arnold himself deplored the unnatural disruption of the affections in sending a boy away to school . |
| 21 | Though Kent has established a career path , it does not exclude a move back to service provision . |
| 22 | There was a drift back to work . |
| 23 | I do n't want to hand a scapegoat over to Kenamun for him to torture into confession . ’ |
| 24 | Dismissing the anti-spirits movement 's idea of imposing a pledge only to moderation in wine and beer , he announced amid cheers that ‘ nothing but the tee-total would do ’ or , according to some accounts , ‘ I 'll be reet down out-and-out t-t-total for ever and ever . ’ |
| 25 | First though I wanted a break from downtown Budapest and took a cab out to Margit-sziget ( Margaret Island ) . |
| 26 | He 'd taken a taxi out to Baby Boy 's grave , and then he 'd walked the rest of the way . |
| 27 | Yet when Luzma , my sympathetic travel agent , took me in a taxi down to contrabando in Cuzco , it had not been to buy a camera . |
| 28 | There was another advantage late on a lunch-time in that there were always a few city slickers who had ventured north by north-west ( of the Barbican ) to try the Hoskin 's or the Holden 's bitter and found it had got the better of them , so needed a taxi back to civilization . |
| 29 | I suppose I have a friend in to tea nearly every afternoon that is , a friend with children . |
| 30 | The mouth of the river seemed ten times its normal width , while about half a mile out to sea hundreds of trees stood upright , supported by their enormous roots , just as they had been carried down in the flood . |