Example sentences of "[adv] closely [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relax deeply , then imagine yourself curled up inside a dark cocoon , which envelops you so closely that you can barely breathe . |
| 2 | The species of angler fish that lives in the Sargasso Sea is blotched and betasselled in a way that matches the floating sargassum weed so closely that the angler is virtually invisible to the eye of a human being , just as it is to that of a small fish , a shrimp or any other marine creature that might drift through the surface waters of that stagnant sea . |
| 3 | The only shapes that fit together so closely that all their walls are common with those of their neighbours are triangles , squares and hexagons . |
| 4 | Carla put her arms round his waist , one hand lifted to clap his back , as a mother does to a child ; and held him so closely that the deep tremor of his sobbing ran through them both . |
| 5 | But , despite this assumption , they sat at the desk so closely that their bodies were almost touching , and there were times when his arm encircled her shoulders while he leaned forward to check additions on the electronic calculator . |
| 6 | I remind him that there are examples of states coming together — as they have done in the Common Market — but then having to co-exist so closely that they can not stand the sight of one another and begin to fall apart . |
| 7 | In this case their prediction model mimics the behaviour of the correct model so closely that there is no incentive for them to seek out further information to refine their predictions . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Chung gains too from the fact that she is not balanced quite so closely as Perlman . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Factory life in the age of automation has never recently been so closely or sensitively examined . |
| 12 | Lord Denning has written that the whole of the English law of criminal negligence , and indeed the biggest change in civil law this century , derives from the commandment to love thy neighbour enunciated by Lord Atkins in 1932 , when he ruled that , even if a man can not love his neighbour , he must still refrain from harming him , and that in law his neighbour was anyone who was so closely and directly affected by his actions that he ought to have had that in mind when he acted . |
| 13 | We look so closely and with such moralistic scrutiny at the religious content of sects , and the habit of mind that imagines that it alone has the full and unique expression of the faith , that we fail to notice what they have to offer . |
| 14 | The answer seems to be — persons who are so closely and directly affected by my act that I ought reasonably to have them in contemplation as being so affected when I am directing my mind to the acts or omissions which are called into question . ’ |
| 15 | I know a lot of us have done terms for a long term , but to be together closely and observe each other reacting and doing things it gives a better idea of how people think , being in this together . |
| 16 | However , if we 're dealing with an unfamiliar area … we 'll examine the assumptions and market studies more closely while the analysis is being done . |
| 17 | ‘ I need to look more closely before we carry him back with us . ’ |
| 18 | These include : Proposed revisions to market hours in order to make official dealing times , mandatory quote periods and Seaq dealing times overlap more closely than at present . |
| 19 | Perhaps the two interconnect more closely than this suggests — as they did with Gide . |
| 20 | Thus collectors can get back to the sound of the original master-tape far more closely than would be possible with any 1955 disc , let alone a forgery of one . |
| 21 | Sheep are particularly sensitive to phyto-oestrogens ( presumably because they crop pastures more closely than cows ) ; the substances can cause infertility , difficult labour and lactation in unbred ewes . |
| 22 | As we have seen , this benefit is unlikely to be as large as the CEGB argues , and if Britain 's history on nuclear construction repeats itself more closely than the board hopes , there could be short-term costs . |
| 23 | They become so excited during this gang warfare that humans can approach them much more closely than at other times . |
| 24 | ‘ More closely than ever in these parts . |
| 25 | They allow people with different areas of expertise to question the candidate more closely than one general interviewer . |
| 26 | A hydrogen atom ( a ) is invaded by a muon , μ - ; ( b ) which orbits the proton more closely than does the electron . |
| 27 | The planet Mercury orbits the Sun more closely than do any of the others . |
| 28 | To be fair to Lewis , he followed instructions more closely than in the past and jabbed his way in before breaking up Dixon , who had not been stopped in 15 fights . |
| 29 | As a result , by the end of the seventeenth century popular Anglicanism was enmeshed more closely than ever within the social fabric of the English countryside . |
| 30 | So impassive and peculiar had the Collector become , so obviously on the verge , everyone thought so ( you would have thought so yourself if you had seen him at this time ) , of giving up the ghost , that his face was scrutinized more closely than ever for any trace of remorse as the gorse bruiser was carried out . |