Example sentences of "closer and [adv] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seems to me to be a highly , high responsible budget bringing us closer and closer to a position where we will eventually reach . |
| 2 | You have opened threshold after threshold and stepped closer and closer to the centre of the realm , to the heartwood to Lavondyss . |
| 3 | What bothered him most was that the past seemed to get closer and closer to the present . |
| 4 | It was established that individual pathetic character once and forever by tying one end of his pocket handkerchief to a hook on , in the wall and attaching himself to the other to the performance , to , to the performance of this feat however the pocket handkerchief inside had been all he , he only cried bitterly all day and when the longest nights came on he spread his little hand before his eyes to shut out the darkness and crouching in the corner tried to sleep , everyone drawing himself closer and closer to the wall |
| 5 | In this struggle to keep ahead of one 's competitors ( but at the same time to avoid creating opportunities more attractive than necessary ) , market participants are thus forced by the competitive market process to gravitate closer and closer to the limits of their ability to participate gainfully in the market . |
| 6 | When parks are ploughed , there is a tendency for farmers to plough closer and closer to the trunk until eventually the tractor disturbs the roots and the tree suffers , or even dies . |
| 7 | This becomes increasingly valuable during the final 16 weeks of the course , when our trainees will be getting closer and closer to the point where they become capable of managing the section , initially for the odd late shift , but very definitely with a view to being able to run the department outright by their final two weeks . |
| 8 | I refer to the children closer and closer to the margins of predictable deviation — the hyperactive youngster with emotional problems , which brings autism to the edge of the teacher 's diagnosis ; the child , otherwise quick-witted , who has massively disabling short-term memory and a confusion in decoding letters : what some would call dyslexia ; the child whose spatial intelligence is exceptionally and marvellously out of line with the celebratory rites of the school community , who fails in conventional school work . |
| 9 | There was nothing for me to hold on to prevent myself from getting closer and closer to the pool . |