Example sentences of "the near [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cylindrical rooms which are logically formed within the tower at several levels are usually of quite small diameter — indeed , decreasing diameter the nearer they are to the top of the tower . |
| 2 | ‘ Objectives are like targets , ’ says Richmond , ‘ the nearer they are , the easier they are to hit . ’ |
| 3 | The nearer they are to each other the greater is the field . |
| 4 | This is fortunate , because it enables us to measure directly the distance of these stars from us : the nearer they are , the more they appear to move . |
| 5 | Yet , the nearer they approached to the canal , the more spasmodic their exchanges became . |
| 6 | Equally , with the use of appropriate figures , it would show that CDs become more liquid , the nearer they get to maturity , i.e. the nearer to maturity they get , the smaller is the loss or gain as a result of changes in prevailing yields . |
| 7 | The nearer it gets , the more worried I become . ’ |
| 8 | Instead of the public sector having the advantage of free or subsidised services , the higher the charge the nearer it will be to the private alternative . |
| 9 | cos the nearer it is to you the , the warmer it is |
| 10 | Law gave credence to such fears by his unashamed espousal of the image created round him ; in May 1912 he told the National Union that " nobody knows better than I do that political work can not be done on strictly business lines , but the nearer you can approach to business lines the better for the political work " . |
| 11 | right I 'm pleased pleased to introduce to us , er , er against all these difficulties and the nearer you are at the front the better , there 's all stuff here look |
| 12 | So far as the B T U Tax is concerned , erm it 's really a political issue as to where the administration or the Congress in the end decide to place the tax , I mean in very simple terms the nearer you place it to the consumer , the more effective it is , but the less politically palatable it is which because consumers vote and oil companies do n't an and so er I think it will be political pressure to push it nearer to the well head which will be less good for the oil and gas producers . |
| 13 | So , the nearer you are to the insect on the plane , the more insect-like are the local biomorphs . |
| 14 | ‘ It gets worse the nearer you get to the front , ’ the cook promised him . |
| 15 | And this method of actually going there living with them , learning their language and er so on s , really participating er would , finally there 's a way of actually in a sense , getting of the people , the nearer you can , anyway , of course , it 's relying on the people you stay with that you understand that something of the world comes over onto you so that imposing what 's essential in and So , here what Judith Oakley 's trying to do , is trying to understand how gypsies , themselves , differentiate , how do they define the boundaries between themselves and others . |
| 16 | The nearest him archive was at the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation 's studios , outside Nicosia . |
| 17 | The nearest we get is Helen Thomas 's introduction to the 1932 edition of The South Country about the life he had chosen , oft en suffering ‘ despair and humiliation ’ , but always finding in the country ‘ the comfort he so passionately sought ’ . |
| 18 | His claims that most people are too stunned to react violently — ‘ the nearest we come to any threat is people laughing at us ’ — are contradicted by the experience of his right-hand man , Mr Mark Smith , whose cat was garrotted last week , but he sticks to his guns regardless . |
| 19 | The Salzkammergut resorts are the nearest we offer to Vienna , Austria 's capital city . |
| 20 | This is the nearest we get to an announcement that his long hibernation has transformed him . |
| 21 | The nearest we can get to a guarantee of success in our moral choices is the cogency of the arguments that we bring to bear in their support coupled with the recognition that what we are almost invariably doing , as MacIver points out and thinkers like Sartre have laboured to establish , is continually deciding between possible alternatives . |
| 22 | A text , whether considered as a whole work or as an extract from a work , is the nearest we can get to a homogeneous and specific use of language . |
| 23 | Thus , for us , the idea of varying strength of network links is the nearest we can get to understanding the notion of a speech community . |
| 24 | The nearest we have to this in England is one chapter by the American scholar Carl Stephenson in his book Borough and Town . |
| 25 | The nearest we get to non-text in actual life , leaving aside the works of those poets and prose writers who deliberately set out to create non-text , is probably in the speech of young children and in bad translations . |
| 26 | The nearest we ever got to Twickenham was Cardiff . ’ |
| 27 | Today , the nearest we come to such exhibitions are to be found in the trade exhibitions mounted at venues such as the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre ( SECC ) at Glasgow . |
| 28 | The newest models at Yorvik are based on a computer reconstruction , which can take a skull and remodel the flesh on the human face ; building up from the skeleton is the nearest we can get to what individual Vikings actually looked like . |
| 29 | I think that was the nearest we ever got to going to far-away places . |
| 30 | And in the past , the , the nearest we 've got to that is taking them along to a fire station and telling them what sort of people we are , that has been proved in many cases to be counterproductive , because it 's actually an incentive if you wish to set fires from other districts than this . |