Example sentences of "[verb] the gap " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the circumstances of the Second World War lessened the gap between the privileged and the less privileged on the home front , between the rich and the poor . |
| 2 | It can be proved by witnesses stating that they saw the defendant ‘ drive round the roundabout and wander into the side of another car ’ or ‘ brake rather late and run into the car in front ’ or by the defendant stating that ‘ I misjudged the gap or distance ’ or ‘ I did n't see the other car , motorbike , cycle or pedestrian , etc . ’ |
| 3 | A single round of real space density-averaging using the GAP program suite ( DIS and J. Grimes ) improved main-chain connectivity in both 4Å and 3Å maps . |
| 4 | The critic is also likely to spot the gaps in a group show , when the best works are not being shown , say perhaps because they are in private collections . |
| 5 | EVERY league game which Aberdeen play is , given the gap between them and Rangers at the top of the Premier Division , an invitation to flirt with disaster so far as the championship race is concerned . |
| 6 | To explain the nature of legal change Stone offers a model that suggests first , that clients revealed the gap between current values and the law ; second , that this was followed by the attempt of lawyers and judges to narrow the gap , often by inventing legal fictions or effectively changing the law by judicial re-interpretation ( the changing definition of legal cruelty provides one example of this ) ; and third , that all this culminated eventually in legal change when the ‘ level of duplicity and hypocrisy became intolerable to law lords and legislators alike ’ ( pp. 19–20 ) . |
| 7 | Just how the wave crosses the gap junction is unknown , but it could depend upon the diffusion of either calcium itself or InsP 3 . |
| 8 | But others , principally in cognitive science and evolutionary biology , have come to see the gap as a largely unknown evolutionary process , a complicated and fascinating interaction in which culture is generated by biological process while biological traits are simultaneously altered by genetic evolution in response to cultural innovation . |
| 9 | Since these armies could not break through , the crucial sphere of activity became the gap that had developed between Kluck 's and Bulow 's armies , and which the Germans had no reserves to fill . |
| 10 | The more the inmates came to consist of the impotent or temporarily incapacitated , the greater became the gap between intent and reality . |
| 11 | The gap between the two is larger in GaAs than silicon but skilful doping with trace elements like aluminium can make the gap wider or narrower to an accurate specification . |
| 12 | Past owners have filled the gaps with various kinds of fillers , but the result is unsatisfactory and of course the filler itself falls out rather easily . |
| 13 | In good , relevant poetry , writers such as Timothy Dudley-Smith , Fred Kaan , Fred Pratt Green and Brian Wren have filled the gaps left by more established hymnals . |
| 14 | He more than filled the gap left by Alex ; his presence animated her with a mysterious excitement . |
| 15 | The new industry of salmon-farming has filled the gap as far as the scavenging gulls are concerned : the rearing cages are placed in the sheltered bays and ‘ sounds ’ between the islands and are fed on high-protein , manufactured food in pellet form , which are ferried out in sacks by small boats . |
| 16 | Fortunately , my sister-in-law Kate has filled the gap in my life by producing a baby brother for my nephew William . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps its the span which represents the gap between life and death ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't think the gap between English and Australian rugby is very wide at all , ’ he says . |
| 19 | 12 points the gap . |
| 20 | Given the British Government 's determination to provide official aid to democratic countries — we are seeing the emergence of a growing number of them — does my hon. Friend agree that it would be proper and popular over the next five years to halve the gap between our official aid and the United Nations target ? |
| 21 | Her initial task will be to try and regularise for us all the amount of information that we have about what is sent to which categories of all the Christian Aid materials and then go on to hopefully ‘ plug the gaps ’ in church contacts . |
| 22 | However , Hume 's way of explaining the gap was not that of the intuitionists , but rather that of the emotivists . |
| 23 | The best way of disguising the gaps is with lengths of slim quadrant beading , pinned to the skirting and painted or stained to match . |
| 24 | She receives more complaints , she said , from those who are in work but feel they would be as well off on supplementary benefit ; her aim is to increase the gap between those who are working and the non-working . |
| 25 | Since 1979 , the Government has taken three measures to lower the replacement ratio — that is , to increase the gap between a person 's income when in work compared with when he or she is drawing the dole . |
| 26 | The remaining people would become overburdened trying to plug the gaps . |
| 27 | The RAF will also receive new weapons to plug the gaps the Falklands war exposed . |
| 28 | ‘ Operations are scrutinised more closely and there is much less cash flow to plug the gaps , ’ he said . |
| 29 | They are meant to plug the gaps in the trade embargo that has been in force for almost a year . |
| 30 | City Hall has raised local taxation almost to an art-form over the past 20 years — not least , to plug the gaps left by a fall since the early 1980s in the share of spending covered by grants from state and federal sources . |