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 | But it was only fourteen weeks ago that her mother Snazana came to Britain with her in a condition close to death . |
| 7 | But it was only fourteen weeks ago that her mother Snazana came to Britain with her in a condition close to death . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A speck on a rock halfway to heaven was the top cablecar station , I was told . |
| 10 | Some stormed across in jubilation , others in a mood closer to melancholy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There is also a proposal afoot to re-route the Three Peaks Walk across Thorns Gill , which I hope will be rejected . |
| 13 | Arnold himself deplored the unnatural disruption of the affections in sending a boy away to school . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | Somehow the country has managed to consume more energy per capita than anywhere else other than rich ( and notoriously thriftless ) Canada and the United States and at the same time plunge into a state close to bankruptcy . |
| 16 | Whereas before I 'd be home for perhaps two hours and then away for five months , now I appreciate that there 's a lot more to life . |
| 17 | There 's a lot more to life than that . ’ |
| 18 | Some people are realising that there 's a lot more to life than paying your rent and having your American Express card , ’ says Margo , conveniently forgetting about the discreet stickers near the cash desk encouraging clients to pay by American Express and Mastercharge . |
| 19 | After many Christmases of justifying what I do , friends are beginning to realise that there is a lot more to sport than first meets the eye . |
| 20 | The apology followed that made a year earlier to South Korea for Japan 's colonial subjugation of the Korean peninsula from 1910 to 1945 . |
| 21 | A gunsmith is taking Michael Heseltine , the President of the Board of Trade , to court over a bureaucratic blunder which left a company close to bankruptcy . |
| 22 | As memory returned she was hit by a depression close to despair , the earlier feeling of security completely vanished . |
| 23 | They actually had a vested interest in having inequality within the coun er er because it , it retained classes and therefore potential class conflict within the countryside and therefore it offered a way forward to socialism . |
| 24 | Children with other kinds of referrals are more like the comparison school children at follow up — less of a problem both to society and to themselves . |
| 25 | She must live with women , be a mother only to girl children . |
| 26 | Not only have they suffered the nightmares of the civil war , but as each day has passed , they 've known that their daughter has moved a stage closer to death . |
| 27 | ‘ So we have a connection closer to home : Doyle saw something that threatened them . |
| 28 | The ruling means that Newall will be a step closer to freedom when the hearing to extradite him to Jersey re-opens on Wednesday . |
| 29 | To choose neither God nor the Devil was an illusion of freedom , for in reality every step of human endeavour , however unwitting , was either a step homewards to God 's kingdom or a step closer to hell . |
| 30 | Maybe I am letting you get a step closer to civilisation , señorita . |