Example sentences of "[adv] closely as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nature of a painter 's technique is never scrutinised so closely as when a work has just been cleaned , and at the heart of the exhibition will be eight of the fourteen Titians in the Louvre 's own collection that have just been freed of their treacly , dark varnishes and retouchings . |
| 2 | Chung gains too from the fact that she is not balanced quite so closely as Perlman . |
| 3 | Do not , however , suppose that I am quite idle , though happily for my health it is not requisite to apply so closely as formerly was the case . |
| 4 | He looked at her more closely as she poured the stale brownish water from the vase down the sink . |
| 5 | And all of the family starting to watch the boy more closely as he sailed or forced himself through one limit after the other — a talent , it was beginning to seem , in every pocket . |
| 6 | This would also have reproduced John 's set-up more closely as well , since he had a large group of about 20 adults . |
| 7 | Merrill hugged her jacket around her more closely as they turned into the wind and crossed the road to a small wine bar . |
| 8 | He believes that even when farmed , wild boar must be genetically pure and reared in conditions which approximate the wild as closely as possible . |
| 9 | To involve related professions as closely as he did was an innovation at that time . |
| 10 | Specimens should be planted as closely as possible two or three weeks before being taken on board and then kept on deck , covered in bad weather with a tarpaulin against salt spray , a precaution made unnecessary after the invention of the Wardian case . |
| 11 | At the other end of the school , in the first year of the Halls , close links were established with the many primary schools ( some of them tiny ) which sent eleven-year-olds to the school , and the style of teaching for that first year was aligned as closely as possible with the more effective primary-school practices . |
| 12 | try following them as closely as possible almost touching their tail . |
| 13 | [ The government ] is convinced that it can be done only by delegating responsibility as closely as possible to where health care is delivered to the patient — predominantly to the GP and the local hospital . |
| 14 | Each child born with a defect was matched as closely as possible to a healthy infant born in the same hospital , at the same time . |
| 15 | It may be true that ‘ desire ’ is , as closely as human words can state , synonymous with life . |
| 16 | For those with other means of transport , a possible procedure is to follow the line as closely as possible by public roads , stopping where the line crosses to observe and explore . |
| 17 | Gremlins is essentially a text adventure , following the original plot as closely as you could hope for . |
| 18 | Tropic Marin 's philosophy is to replicate sea water as closely as is technically possible . |
| 19 | The aim should be to simulate as closely as possible the particular diet of a fish species , incorporating for example , as much natural live food into a carnivorous species diet and fresh plant material into the herbivore 's as possible . |
| 20 | To be successful the remedy should match the totality of the patient 's symptoms and signs as closely as possible — as demonstrated in the three separate cases of influenza . |
| 21 | By using computer technology , James Capel 's FT-SE 100 Index Fund aims to match the performance of the index of the UK 's top 100 companies as closely as possible . |
| 22 | So I compiled a booklet entitled Rubbing Along in Burmese , adapting the pronunciation as closely as possible to English and dispensing with niceties that involved training in phonetics . |
| 23 | For example , the completed miniature illustrated in the photograph on the facing page shows a design that represents as closely as possible the way the plant grows in the wild . |
| 24 | Since children 's linguistic performance varies across situations , it is particularly important that the conditions associated with the collection of the data for the age norms are repeated as closely as possible when an individual child is assessed . |
| 25 | I did n't own a pair of binoculars , so I could n't observe the birds as closely as I 'd have wished , but I had something much closer to watch . |
| 26 | The new restoration , masterminded by Heinrich Magirius , of the Commission for Historic Monuments for Dresden , and Harald Marx , director of the Gemäldegalerie , has returned as closely as possible to the original decorative scheme devised by Semper . |
| 27 | The artist … explained that the printer 's contribution in creating the official lithograph was merely mechanical , that his sole contribution was to reproduce the original as closely as possible , and that she had the absolute right of approval of all aspects of the final prints . |
| 28 | In line with recent methodological trends , the stories are enjoyable for their own sake , and aim to resemble as closely as possible the style of book children would choose to read in their first language . |
| 29 | ( I use the phrase ‘ representational role ’ rather than ‘ meaning ’ here to hew as closely as possible to the line of the second scenario . ) |
| 30 | As far as strategic partners go , Chuck House , senior vice president of research and development , says Informix is working with Microsoft on Windows NT , but not as closely as competitors Oracle Corp and Sybase Inc . |