Example sentences of "[adv] closely [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Factory life in the age of automation has never recently been so closely or sensitively examined . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When he insisted that they were pounds , she looked more closely and then exclaimed : ‘ Of course they 're British — they 've got a picture of Mrs Thatcher on them ! ’ |
| 7 | However , if one shift performs better ( and ‘ better ’ might refer to the quality or quantity — or both — of product that is made ) is it because it consists of more conscientious workers ; their conditions of working are better , or they have less distraction ; they are supervised more closely and the conveyor belt moves faster ; or their body clock enables them to work better at some times of the day than others ? |
| 8 | ‘ And she 's a real toff , ’ warned the old woman , tethering her ragged skirts about her more closely and fingering a few sparse hairs back up under her bonnet . |
| 9 | Thus it is necessary to examine the cell more closely and to try and understand its internal programme and how it responds to external signals . |
| 10 | Such thoughts are usually considered to be unnecessarily morbid , although the subject is probably more painful for younger people than those who more closely and personally face their own decline and death . |
| 11 | The main means provided to DHAs to effect these changes are contracts for services between DHAs and suppliers ; reimbursement formulas based on resident populations ; resource management systems which align responsibility for incurring expenditure for its management more closely and provide information on costs of different activities ; and medical audit . |
| 12 | ‘ Operations are scrutinised more closely and there is much less cash flow to plug the gaps , ’ he said . |
| 13 | The black man momentarily took off his sunglasses as though to examine Ellen more closely and I saw he had very hard and very cynical eyes that were suddenly turned full on me . |
| 14 | The models were also approached more closely and for a longer duration when presented with large crests ( female responses : for closest approach , log-likelihood ratio G =63.8 , d.f . |
| 15 | Erm , and then we get requests for things from the leader of the Council directly , that he wants us to respond to , the chair of that committee to erm will , will do the same thing , we 'll get requests from other departments relating to our work , some of which might of been you , we erm , the Council has a group for the finance advisory group , which is a small group of Councillor 's and officer 's that meet to discuss not in , in public session , key erm financial and other major policy erm issues that , and the reason why that group was set up , erm was that it felt like with the introduction of Poll Tax and the Local Government Housing and Finance Tax , that it needed outside the committee cycle to erm review the impact of those legislation to look at it 's finances more closely and what , and we as a policy team report into that group and get request from work from that group as well . |
| 16 | Ellen and Neal Wood , in Class , Ideology and Ancient Political Theory maintain that the ‘ classics of political theory are fundamentally ideological ’ ( 1978 , p. ix ) and they set out to relate them ‘ more closely and systematically ’ to their social contexts . |
| 17 | We need now to look more closely and more precisely at the role of knowledge , and how it interacts with language to create discourse . |
| 18 | The Sumatran tiger is more closely and deceptively striped than his larger Indian cousin , and quite a bit more intelligent . |
| 19 | Many of them had seen it at the synagogue meeting on the previous night , but now in the daylight they were able to examine it more closely and exclaim at its resplendence . |
| 20 | Assessors can use an accompanying checklist to make a more detailed assessment of certain factors , allowing the resulting completed form to reflect more closely and personally the assessed person 's needs . |
| 21 | She picked up one of the coins to look more closely and , in doing so , sent a ten pence piece spinning and rolling against the floorboards . |
| 22 | Perhaps one of the greatest advantages of a systems viewpoint has been to cement the branches of physical geography more closely and therefore to make what Walton ( 1968 ) characterized as the unity of the physical environment a more realistic prospect . |
| 23 | Element analysis and CL can thus be more closely and conveniently linked . |
| 24 | Hotspur forgot his preoccupations for a moment , and looked more closely and with quickening affection at his friend . |
| 25 | The free volume concept has been touched on in previous sections but it is instructive now to consider this idea more closely and to draw together the various points alluded to earlier . |
| 26 | The regional distribution of temporary workers followed the distribution of total employment fairly closely and as such does not deserve any special attention . |
| 27 | In practice legislation at Stormont , the Northern Ireland Parliament , tended to follow legislation at Westminster quite closely but often a few years behind . |
| 28 | When the frequency is lower than ο max the permanent dipoles can follow the field quite closely and so ε′ is high because the dipoles align easily with each change in polarity ; ε′′ on the other hand is low again because now the voltage and the current are approximately 90° out of phase . |
| 29 | The latter , who have the most profound impact on the personality or the self of the child , are those individuals with whom the child interacts most closely and who give him or her security . |
| 30 | But what is certain is that the democratic principle — that people should , as far as possible , make or participate in making the decisions that affect them most closely and importantly — could beneficially be applied far more widely in modern societies than It presently is . |