Example sentences of "[noun sg] closer to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rotation of the key brings the check and the hammer closer to each other . |
| 2 | Take education : it has made gigantic strides against bitter opposition to reform the system , to raise standards , to monitor the results and to draw industry closer to the academic and the educational world . ’ |
| 3 | It was a marvellous day and anything like that brings industry closer to the community . ’ |
| 4 | Spitzer s approach may therefore seem less scientific than theirs , but it is also a great deal closer to most readers ' experience , as the revelatory quality of his best studies shows . |
| 5 | More importantly , their work still has considerable validity as a theoretical alternative to Formalism and structuralism , an alternative which may seem a great deal closer to many readers ' and critics ' feelings about literature and life . |
| 6 | The British ‘ compromise ’ is in practice closer to the American than Scandinavian model . |
| 7 | Such a mental health ‘ sus law , ’ invoked on the basis of unreliable predictions of dangerousness , will bring psychiatric practice closer to policing and will undermine the attempts to achieve cure or care , both in hospitals and community settings . |
| 8 | The woman barely acknowledged Christina , and continued talking to Stephen , thrusting her abundant cleavage closer to him with every word . |
| 9 | The importance of doing courses at an institution closer to home is not surprising when one considers adults are likely to have commitments which limit their ability to travel long distances or stay away from home . |
| 10 | Susan Cole-King from Burcott has already been ordained ; it was into the Episcopal Church in the United States four years ago , but Mrs Cole-King , who works as a deacon for the Oxford diocese at Dorchester , is looking forward to the day she 'll be able to act as a priest closer to home . |
| 11 | The population of little more than 7,000 , indicated by the total of only 1,414 taxpayers in 1525 , seems on the low side , and since it has been estimated at 10,625 ( exclusive of aliens ) in 1569 , a figure closer to 10,000 would be more realistic for the 1520s . |
| 12 | In his view , in the 1970s the drop in children available for adoption led adoption pressure groups to advocate a kind of fostering closer to adoption , with the natural parents having fewer rights to intervene in the foster placement . |
| 13 | She imagined he was going to make a move towards her , but what he did was to hitch the child closer to him until his face was almost pressed against his own and then he smiled a smile that widened his full lips but , as she had seen before , did not separate his teeth . |
| 14 | But , in the longer term , it promises to move the specialist closer to the levers of power , which have often eluded his or her grasp , leaving a sense of being on the periphery of events . |
| 15 | Some stormed across in jubilation , others in a mood closer to melancholy . |
| 16 | But in order to bring management closer to tenants , we intend to reduce the limit on the number of properties transferred in a single batch . |
| 17 | With its simple , discreet lines it will scarcely dominate the room visually ; but the anonymity ends there , for it will certainly bring the concert hall closer to home than many listeners could possibly have imagined . |
| 18 | Our plans for local government will bring decision-making closer to the people rather than alienating them by imposing an extra layer of bureaucracy on top of local government . |
| 19 | Their pin chucks fit directly on to the headstock spindle , bringing the work closer to the bearings so putting less strain on them . |
| 20 | The Department of Transport is planning to build the A417 Cirencester to Stratton bypass through the valley … and there will also be a road realignment which will bring the work closer to their home . |
| 21 | If the finish looks powdery , try holding the can closer to the surface . |
| 22 | The top of the wall was in better repair closer to the house and he scurried along it . |
| 23 | Just a walk in those woods , a move closer to the edge to peer down and enjoy the full Lake Tourist sensation of Beauty in Horror , a lost footing , a clutching at Mr Crump for help , a swinging of Mr Crump around , a letting of Mr Crump go down , down , down into one of the most favoured of the Lake Tourists ' sites . |
| 24 | The structure of the company has been changed to bring the business closer to the customer by moving to a divisional structure , with each divisional director responsible for 150 contracts , and with 18 UK divisions . |
| 25 | She pulled the cold embroidered spaces of satin kimono closer to her and pressed her back into the wire of the fender before she drew the basket , full of wounded dog , nearer to herself and to the heat — the little bitch trembled amongst all her luxuries . |
| 26 | In every case the estimate of β was markedly higher for the period closer to delivery , i.e. volatility declines at a faster rate in the fifty days just before delivery . |
| 27 | A further sign of pressure from Islamic radicals came today from Hussein Mussawi , in the middle here , a senior Shiite leader closer to Hezbollah fundamentalists , he opposed the release of another American and questioned the loyalty of those doing it . |
| 28 | The landscape seems to belong to some bare planet closer to the sun than earth , and the passions of its people match that glaring heat . |
| 29 | It does not , of course , follow that because markets are of only limited effectiveness that legal intervention , in the shape of a more active liability regime or a reformed governance structure , would necessarily lead to an outcome closer to the ideal , since the costs of intervention may exceed the benefits . |
| 30 | If correct , the theory of the existence of discrete species , each with its own essence , brings biology closer to the physical sciences . |