Example sentences of "much closer to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kelman stands much closer to the new hero , and more is made of what happens in that hero 's head . |
| 2 | BR indeed continued to change the country 's very geography , Gatwick suddenly becoming much closer to London with its Express every fifteen minutes , places like Peterborough and Swindon now almost as accessible as suburbs only fifteen miles away from Piccadilly . |
| 3 | In the latter case , it will meanwhile have the effect of turning literary study into something much closer to the sociology that Marxists have colonized in the modern academy . |
| 4 | The same tendency to compromise showed itself in a facet of internal policy much closer to home , one whose violent impact threatened life and property on the British mainland herself . |
| 5 | This led , through X The Unknown ( 1957 ) , which parodies the complacency of the authorities towards the radiation threat and Quatermass 2 ( 1957 ) , in which the visiting monsters come much closer to taking over the world , to the cycle of horror films that started with The Curse of Frankenstein ( 1956 ) , moving away from immediate contemporary concerns towards mythological narratives that touched some of the same fears and terrors . |
| 6 | We will lower the limit on the Post office monopoly much closer to the level of the first class stamp . |
| 7 | The problem is often the more awkward because owners of country houses are hesitant to protest when they realize that other options may bring the new road much closer to the houses of neighbours . |
| 8 | It may well be that this reduction in severity of symptoms has brought the symptoms of NSU much closer to those of gonorrhoea and thereby exaggerated their importance . |
| 9 | An attempt was made in Parliament to restrict the power to intercept for security reasons to cases where this was necessary for the defence of the realm or to prevent subversion , terrorism , or espionage — still wider than the guidelines but much closer to their spirit than the statute . |
| 10 | Apparently there are far more of these mistakes , much closer to the surface , than any chess player imagined . |
| 11 | Much closer to home , sightings of dolphins and porpoises around British coastal waters are rapidly decreasing , although 12 species are regularly seen . |
| 12 | In terms of votes , the ITN/Harris exit poll showed the Conservatives on 41 per cent compared with Labour 's 36 per cent — much closer to the final result than earlier polls . |
| 13 | Anyway , there are bogeymen much closer to home : true Brits who drink too much lager and then get behind the wheel of a car . |
| 14 | This year , however , Britain has been faced by a tyrant much closer to home . |
| 15 | It is in fact much closer to the rate paid on tax deposit certificates which currently offer 7% gross 5.25% net . |
| 16 | His signature on the title of his copy of Virgil , probably written there in his quieter days at Jesus College , Cambridge , surely brings us much closer to that momentous day still celebrated in November and commemorated by the ceremonial searching of the cellars of the House of Commons . |
| 17 | If this is the right Elizabeth , can we come much closer to him than through the loved child christened at Stratford ‘ Elizabeth , daughter of John Hall , gentleman ’ and her Bible , so tenderly inscribed by her husband ? |
| 18 | Speakers ' use of creole varieties lie along a continuum , from varieties of creole which may well be incomprehensible to a speaker of Standard English , to varieties much closer to Standard English ; |
| 19 | And here was the bonus : the positive charge of the proton is so effectively shielded that it will now be able to encroach much closer to the nucleus of a neighbouring atom without being repelled ; the chance of bumping into it and undergoing nuclear fusion , ‘ cold fusion ’ , thereby became a real possibility . |
| 20 | Water shortages can occur much closer to home . |
| 21 | Another possibility presented itself when it was noted the town of Renfrew had a small airfield that would site the aircraft much closer to the docks . |
| 22 | During Edward 's short reign , England had grown much closer to continental Protestantism and had begun to embrace the nascent Protestant internationalism being fostered by Calvin at Geneva . |
| 23 | The Duke 's thumbnail had forced a small scar into the map at another crossroads , this one much closer to Brussels and just south of a village with the odd name of Waterloo . |
| 24 | ‘ But first we must dig deeper , get much closer to INCUBUS . |
| 25 | Seagate Technology Inc says it has reached a multi-million dollar agreement with Corning Inc which will enable it to produce a hard disk drive that is sturdier and stores more than conventional drives : it will use Corning' glass-ceramic dubbed Memcor and developed over six years of research and development ; shipments of the material , which is thinner , stronger and more rugged than traditional aluminium substrates , and enables the recording head to be placed much closer to the surface of the disk , will begin shortly and output of drives will start in the third quarter . |
| 26 | An interesting consequence of taking this much looser view of determinism is that it brings us much closer to the classical position . |
| 27 | Those peoples with less elaborate technologies and a narrower range of effective communications and intercourse live much closer to the wild ; for them , it is the antithesis of the mastered , lived-in realm of normal everyday social intercourse . |
| 28 | An understanding monarch reflected that disobedient and violent subjects were also to be found much closer to home . |
| 29 | Another example , much closer to home , relates to the persecution of witches in pre-industrial Britain . |
| 30 | Provided there is sufficient depth for hanging clothes , there is sufficient depth for hanging clothes , a fitted wardrobe can be put much closer to the back wall , creating more space within the bedroom . |