Example sentences of "far closer to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our cousins in the sea , as they are sometimes called , seem to us to have created a society far closer to human ideals of Utopia than anything we have managed to achieve on land , and their social behaviour and lifestyle embody many of the virtues and qualities we humans hold so dear . |
| 2 | We may now represent the mental capacities of the cerebral hemispheres of an advanced organism in a simple model that gets us far closer to the condition of our own species ( Fig. 2. i ) . |
| 3 | If you have ever watched a dog running across a field , unless he is tracking something , he will often run with his nose in the air , using his eyes for long-distance viewing , but as soon as he reaches an area of interest , down goes the nose , far closer to the ground . |
| 4 | Yet familiarity may be blinding us to equal intelligence expressed by animals far closer to home . |
| 5 | The spirit at work in Northern Nigeria was in every respect far closer to that at work in the Punjab in the 1850s than in the United Nations in the 1950s . |
| 6 | British radio works far closer to the texture of ordinary life than that , engaging as it does a deeper sympathy for a shared world of ordinary experience and a total lack of awe . |
| 7 | Defence ministries , however , come far closer to this ideal . |
| 8 | The powerful structure is in the direct tradition of early Attic heads ( fig. 15 ) , but has been brought far closer to natural forms . |
| 9 | Jack Ashley 's Bill would have come far closer to doing so by requiring that belief in consent must be reasonable . |
| 10 | All the evidence suggests that , when consulted , the people of Europe have a vision far closer to de Gaulle 's loose ‘ Europe à l'anglaise ’ than to M. Delors ' unitary state . |