Example sentences of "more closely [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Even magistrates , whose sentencing powers are more closely confined by law , enjoy a considerable degree of discretion within those upper limits . |