Example sentences of "[adv] closer to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Bourque and Grossholtz put it , ‘ that politics is a man 's world is a familiar adage ; that political science as a discipline tends to keep it that way is less well accepted , but perhaps closer to the truth ’ ( 1984 , p. 103 ) . |
| 2 | At a later date , however , the fort was probably moved to lower ground and so closer to the site of the future town ; two pieces of cavalry equipment from the Bleachfield Road area plus a few Claudian coins and some slight remains of early timber-framed buildings , might be thought to support this view . |
| 3 | Even in regions much closer to the centre of Orthodoxy in Moscow , belief in the powers of wizards was still strong in the early twentieth century , let alone the seventeenth . |
| 4 | Similarly , his views on architecture , education and social issues have brought him much closer to the man in the street than any of his relatives . |
| 5 | On the contrary , they may well have moved much closer to the type which will be referred to as putatively postmodernist . |
| 6 | Provided there is sufficient depth for hanging clothes , there is sufficient depth for hanging clothes , a fitted wardrobe can be put much closer to the back wall , creating more space within the bedroom . |
| 7 | Apparently there are far more of these mistakes , much closer to the surface , than any chess player imagined . |
| 8 | Seagate Technology Inc says it has reached a multi-million dollar agreement with Corning Inc which will enable it to produce a hard disk drive that is sturdier and stores more than conventional drives : it will use Corning' glass-ceramic dubbed Memcor and developed over six years of research and development ; shipments of the material , which is thinner , stronger and more rugged than traditional aluminium substrates , and enables the recording head to be placed much closer to the surface of the disk , will begin shortly and output of drives will start in the third quarter . |
| 9 | And he says if the plane had approached from Ardley , much closer to the runway , the consequences could have been disastrous . |
| 10 | We will lower the limit on the Post office monopoly much closer to the level of the first class stamp . |
| 11 | They stood much closer to the mainstream of political thinking in the working-class movement than the Marxists and were able to tap a tradition of radicalism which extended back to the Chartists of the previous century and further . |
| 12 | Those peoples with less elaborate technologies and a narrower range of effective communications and intercourse live much closer to the wild ; for them , it is the antithesis of the mastered , lived-in realm of normal everyday social intercourse . |
| 13 | For example , ejecta that can be associated with a specific primary impact lie much closer to the primary than would have been the case on the Moon . |
| 14 | He had learnt about it much closer to the time of the murder . |
| 15 | In the latter case , it will meanwhile have the effect of turning literary study into something much closer to the sociology that Marxists have colonized in the modern academy . |
| 16 | It is in fact much closer to the rate paid on tax deposit certificates which currently offer 7% gross 5.25% net . |
| 17 | Pound and Rebka exploited the contemporary discovery by Mössbauer that the linewidths of certain gamma emitters , in particular 57 Fe* , were exceptionally narrow and much closer to the resolution required to detect the gravitational red shift than for any other type of source . |
| 18 | Thus the maritime zone is richer both in species and in variety of plant communities than the continent , though still poor in comparison with an arctic biome much closer to the pole . |
| 19 | And here was the bonus : the positive charge of the proton is so effectively shielded that it will now be able to encroach much closer to the nucleus of a neighbouring atom without being repelled ; the chance of bumping into it and undergoing nuclear fusion , ‘ cold fusion ’ , thereby became a real possibility . |
| 20 | The first shot ‘ establishes ’ the scene in the minds of the audience , and it is followed by shots which are taken progressively closer to the action as the scene unfolds on the screen . |
| 21 | Was she any closer to a solution , to finding out why her husband had died ? |
| 22 | In the meadows by the Lugg , driven by its own weight ever closer to the edge of the water , and trapped by its own trampling ever deeper into the quaking marshy turf , the mass of struggling , hampered men and horses wallowed like a bogged ox . |
| 23 | He ran steadily , getting ever closer to the village and to the approaching enemy . |
| 24 | The Church drew ever closer to the State but became a distinctly junior partner . |
| 25 | In this way , gas is continually being fed ever closer to the centre from larger radii . |
| 26 | Connelly used every ounce of strength he had to push himself away from the cooker , but Farrell was a powerful man and forced the agent 's face ever closer to the ring . |
| 27 | The atom would be unstable , as its electrons spiralled ever closer to the nucleus , and it would emit its dying radiation in a band of frequencies with no trace of the discreteness shown by [ 2 ] The nuclear atom dealt the coup de grâce to classical physics . |
| 28 | As he edged ever closer to the point of no return , to an open commitment to the rebels , the Young King 's life increasingly comes to bear the marks of a man tormented by uncertainty and doubt . |
| 29 | This has to be a mistake , he had thought , as they were directed ever closer to the front . |
| 30 | Probably closer to an hour and a half . ’ |