Example sentences of "more closely [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conference will seek to identify ways in which emerging technology can be more closely geared to end-user needs . |
| 2 | As the scale of local government grew and the environment began to change more rapidly , it became apparent that services needed to be more closely integrated in order that they would meet the needs of the environment . |
| 3 | The Incorporation of Weavers could not be more closely connected with carpets and it was under their aegis that Stoddard Templeton took part . |
| 4 | Returning to our work Sid and I became more and more closely connected with Radio Station 1OAB and during the Annual General Meeting of the association that year I was appointed Programme Director . |
| 5 | Toucans live in the forests of South and Central America and are more closely related to woodpeckers than to hornbills . |
| 6 | Another theory concerning the relationships of the Recent taxa suggests that lampreys are more closely related to gnathostomes than either is to hagfishes , implying that hagfishes are the most primitive of craniate animals ( Fig. 2B , a ) . |
| 7 | Usually , one or other fossil group is considered more closely related to gnathostomes than to any other agnathan , living or fossil . |
| 8 | These similarities , together with several other less obvious features , suggest that cephalapsids are more closely related to gnathostomes than either is to lampreys . |
| 9 | The new features that have been discovered by re-examining Recent taxa alongside the many new fossil finds during the past 15 years lead to classifications that suggest that lampreys are more closely related to gnathostomes than either is to hagfishes . |
| 10 | B , a , This theory suggests that lampreys are more closely related to gnathostomes than to hagfishes ( agnathans are considered paraphyletic ) . |
| 11 | Among the more comprehensive books on twentieth-century Mexican art in recent years , Shifra Goldman only mentions him in passing , Luis Cardoza y Aragón says little more than that Gironella ‘ escapes him ’ , and Ida Rodriguez Prampolini dismisses him from her discussion of Mexican surrealism as an ‘ international ’ artist , more closely related to Spain than to Mexico . |
| 12 | Behind the industrial revolution were a series of major historical transformations , including the abandonment of popular culture by the European elites after 1500 such that the concept of culture itself became more closely related to hierarchy , but was combined with a growth in literacy and other resources by means of which lower status groups might also gain access to the new high culture ( see Burke 1978 : 270 and Mukerji 1983 for pre-1800 ; Williams 1961 for post-1800 ) . |
| 13 | In at least one example , the distinction between goods is more closely related to contradictions within one given set of individuals than to differences between social groups . |
| 14 | The clubmosses , which created most of the coal seams , are more closely related to ferns than they are to pine trees , and oil — from which most synthetics are obtained — is not derived from plants at all . |
| 15 | The time course of resolution of the hypergastrinaemia during antibacterial treatment indicates that it is more closely related to resolution of the antral gastritis than to suppression of bacterial urease activity . |
| 16 | Job-search , on this basis , is seen as ‘ more efficient , in that it is more closely aligned to employers ’ recruitment methods ' ( loc. cit . ) . |
| 17 | After their father 's death , it was Louis whose interests proved more closely aligned to Charles 's . |
| 18 | THE strings of sport and politics are becoming ever more closely entwined at Olympique Marseille following the appointment of club president Bernard Tapie as minister for urban affairs in a French cabinet reshuffle . |
| 19 | There can be little doubt that attractiveness in women is more closely associated with sexuality and sexuality with youth , than is the case for men . |
| 20 | Tarnow-Mordi et al found the mean arterial-alveolar oxygen tension ratio more closely associated with death than the worst arterial-alveolar oxygen tension ratio . |
| 21 | Data security is more closely linked with data protection , being a part of the requirements of adequate data protection , but it also covers issues of computer crime , as well as ensuring that computer systems are protected from physical disasters . |
| 22 | In the sixteen months between Britain 's application and its rejection by de Gaulle , a body of opinion was created in Whitehall and amongst the electorate that looked forward to Britain becoming more closely linked to Europe for a variety of reasons ; one of which was to reduce America 's dominance in the West 's military affairs . |
| 23 | The committee did not endorse the Schools Council 's wish to see CEE courses closely linked to CSE courses and grades ; it would prefer to see CEE course more closely linked to FE courses ( themselves in need of a simpler structure ) and more vocational in emphasis . |
| 24 | More closely linked to GIS is work by McMaster and Johnson ( 1986 ) who perform a very detailed inventory of hazardous materials ( both stored and transported ) in Santa Monica , California . |
| 25 | Even magistrates , whose sentencing powers are more closely confined by law , enjoy a considerable degree of discretion within those upper limits . |