Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] closer to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this shift of emphasis was not due to any direct influence from the Formalists whom , as I have said , the New Critics did not know ; it was due to the influence of a figure much closer to home , the poet T.S . |
| 2 | He had underestimated the new mood of his members who had become sick and tired of the never-ending series of disputes , which they knew in their consciences had been driving the Division ever closer to bankruptcy . |
| 3 | This year , however , Britain has been faced by a tyrant much closer to home . |
| 4 | The keynote for the last years of Offa , however , is sounded by an event much closer to home than the Carolingian court . |
| 5 | Hourly electric trains connect London to the U.K. 's Northern Capital in under two hours , whilst the regional attractions of York and Harrogate rest even closer to hand . |
| 6 | The same tendency to compromise showed itself in a facet of internal policy much closer to home , one whose violent impact threatened life and property on the British mainland herself . |