Example sentences of "[adv] closely than " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Perhaps the two interconnect more closely than this suggests — as they did with Gide . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They become so excited during this gang warfare that humans can approach them much more closely than at other times . |
| 7 | ‘ More closely than ever in these parts . |
| 8 | They allow people with different areas of expertise to question the candidate more closely than one general interviewer . |
| 9 | A hydrogen atom ( a ) is invaded by a muon , μ - ; ( b ) which orbits the proton more closely than does the electron . |
| 10 | The planet Mercury orbits the Sun more closely than do any of the others . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The agreement will also result in employers working more closely than before with students and teachers in schools and colleges , to broaden their understanding of the world of work . |
| 15 | The agreement will also result in employers working more closely than before with students and teachers in schools and colleges , to broaden their understanding of the world of work . |
| 16 | The agreement will also result in employers working more closely than before with students and teachers in schools and colleges , to broaden their understanding of the world of work . |
| 17 | The agreement will also result in employers working more closely than before with students and teachers in schools and colleges , to broaden their understanding of the world of work . |
| 18 | The agreement will also result in employers working more closely than before with students and teachers in schools and colleges , to broaden their understanding of the world of work . |
| 19 | The agreement will also result in employers working more closely than before with students and teachers in schools and colleges , to broaden their understanding of the world of work . |
| 20 | The agreement will also result in employers working more closely than before with students and teachers in schools and colleges , to broaden their understanding of the world of work . |
| 21 | The agreement will also result in employers working more closely than before with students and teachers in schools and colleges , to broaden their understanding of the world of work . |
| 22 | The agreement will also result in employers working more closely than before with students and teachers in schools and colleges , to broaden their understanding of the world of work . |
| 23 | But some of the mystique surrounding the presidency had gone for ever , and future holders of the office were bound to be scrutinized more closely than ever before . |
| 24 | To the extent that language is perpetually shifting and changing , it plainly resembles dynamic states such as weather and cloud formations more closely than it resembles static objects . |
| 25 | I had started to fear that each of us controls the manner in which we die much more closely than is generally supposed . |
| 26 | Public sector housing development had followed the guidelines more closely than the private sector , but even so there had been substantial investment in some non-key villages . |
| 27 | Much of the conversation had focused on the disastrous and pathetic effect upon the family of the civil unrest in Belfast and its function was plainly cathartic ; many recordings resembled therapy sessions more closely than sociolinguistic field tapes . |
| 28 | In westernized hierarchically stratified societies , the form this linguistic sex-marking has commonly been interpreted as taking is for women to approximate more closely than men of similar status to the prestige norm . |
| 29 | The French translation of the Kolestral Super leaflet can therefore follow the source text more closely than the Arabic translation . |
| 30 | Johns ( 1991 : 10–11 ) makes similar claims with respect to topic-prominent vs. subject-prominent languages : ‘ in a topic-prominent language linear arrangement follows the scale of CD far more closely than it does in a subject-prominent language ’ . |