Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] [be] [adj -er] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | MHW officials concede that the actual number of HIV infections may be closer to 8000 , while non-government sources put the figure even higher . |
| 2 | Some analysts now believe profits may be closer to £12m in 1992 . |
| 3 | DOCTORS may be closer to solving the mystery of why Frenchmen who eat rich , fatty food , take little exercise and smoke heavily manage to escape the consequences of heart disease . |
| 4 | Indeed , the norms and manners of Londoners may be closer to those of people in Boston , Mass. than in Belfast ; and if customs and ideas in Birmingham are rather different from those in , say , Barcelona , they are more like those in Barcelona today than in Birmingham when its oldest inhabitant was born . |
| 5 | The second is how to move the economy towards a position in which the balance of payments will be closer to equilibrium . |
| 6 | Whilst improving the welfare of animals and practically and economically enhancing pig and poultry keeping outdoors , sylvopastoral systems may be kinder to the environment too ! |