Example sentences of "get closer to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , she could n't have got closer to doing what Cara wanted than to drive up to Vendelin Gajdusek 's house at the appointed time and ring his doorbell . |
| 2 | In his ice-cold and pitch black seclusion , John heard the sounds of his rescuers getting closer to him and tried to count the days by following the shift changes . |
| 3 | Ben Johnson was getting closer to the man who would be his great rival , winning the bronze behind Sam Graddy but ahead of two British sprinters , Mike McFarlane and Donovan Reid . |
| 4 | Perhaps with FRS 1 we are getting closer to achieving this ideal . |
| 5 | This suggestion is not dissimilar to the recommended way of getting closer to children by working together over a third object , such as a drawing , or a jigsaw puzzle . |
| 6 | The process is painfully laborious , but with every announcement , IBM Corp is getting closer to acquiring the competitive edge that is the difference between survival and oblivion in the Unix business , and yesterday the company filled in a few gaps in its RS/6000 line , the most challenging development being a wind up of the clock on the single-chip Rios processor to create a 45MHz Model 230 , which starts at just $4,800 . |
| 7 | Remember , while your Goblins are soaking up casualties your real troops are getting closer to the enemy . |
| 8 | The process is painfully laborious , but with every announcement , IBM Corp is getting closer to acquiring the competitive edge that is the difference between survival and oblivion in the Unix business , and last week the company filled in a few gaps in its RS/6000 line , the most challenging development being a wind up of the clock on the single-chip Rios processor to create a 45MHz Model 230 , which starts at just $4,800 . |
| 9 | Of course , it 's good to know the ground rules about wearing the right clothes and not jumping on the sett ( certainly , from the badger 's point of view ) , but the consequence of picking up badger-lore slowly — getting closer to the smells , scratches and signs — is that you not only find it easier to watch badgers but also more enjoyable . |
| 10 | With Britain getting closer to Iran and with the US constantly improving its rapport with Syria , we felt that now we were all together , we could be released without having to wait for all the governments to restore relations . |
| 11 | And Braque : ‘ When the fragmentation of objects appeared in my painting around 1910 , it was as a technique for getting closer to the object … ’ |
| 12 | He said : ‘ We feel we are getting closer to finding what happened in Gary and Jean 's last hours . |
| 13 | So we 're talking about seveal thousands , if not getting closer to millions , of the speed that a human being would possibly travel ? |
| 14 | The fear that overtakes me seems to increase as we get closer to the big day . |
| 15 | But some get closer to the feeling , the experience or the thought than others . |
| 16 | ‘ We 'll know the number for sure in a few months as we get closer to completion ’ , he says . |
| 17 | As we narrow down the proportion of the labour market that appears to benefit from lifetime employment in Japan , we get closer to the proportion of labour in Western countries employed by large companies who work to seniority wage profiles that offer accumulating reward for experience . |
| 18 | It 's quite interesting sometimes how you get a question back or you get closer to the young people as a result . |
| 19 | In this way we get closer to the efficient solution in which the marginal cost of pollution reduction is equalized across firms . |
| 20 | A worthwhile longer-term project , which gets closer to the heart of the matter , is therefore to begin to unearth these injunctions , to bring them to light , and to put them to the test of rational and empirical scrutiny . |
| 21 | GETS CLOSER TO PYRAMID — WILL TAKE TOP-END MACHINES OEM |
| 22 | The worst target of all is the one that seems to be near but is forever receding as one gets closer to it . |
| 23 | Robin Coverdale is the man beside the fast lane and as a race marshal , he gets closer to the action than most . |
| 24 | Light and dark imagery represent the opposites life and death as the imagery gets darker while the poet gets closer to death both in himself and in the poem . |
| 25 | When it gets closer to the ground , you ca n't pick it up . |
| 26 | And he seemed to get closer to these seamen because of that . |
| 27 | McLeish , who had a built-in prejudice , well supported by experience , against statements incorporating an appeal to belief , noted dourly that he might at some later stage need to get closer to Yeo Davis 's accounts . |
| 28 | Marie shoved the table aside to get closer to Gazzer . |
| 29 | As it seemed to get closer to reality , I felt myself changing . |
| 30 | This would be likely to include the tracking through services and follow-up of groups of clients , through detailed description and in depth interviewing of professionals , clients , and carers , and would be designed to get closer to measures of quality of care and of outcome . |