Example sentences of "and closer to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sharpened exhibitionism of Stavrogin 's wanting everybody to look at him will not have helped Dostoevsky with Katkov , but it does mark a step away from Crime and Punishment and closer to Notes from Underground . |
| 2 | The exhibition indicates that Tillyer 's work has been moving away from Hitchens and closer to American landscape-abstractionists , notably Helen Frankenthaler . |
| 3 | Maybe , now that they know it works and if they are embold-Clare Shearer as Rosina ened , it will grow during the run into the big , bold bellylaugh it ought to be , forgetting operatic pretensions to high art and closer to situation comedy . |
| 4 | In electronics , finance has narrowed the gap : Matsushita 's financial profits brought it level with Hitachi and closer to Toshiba . |
| 5 | He wriggled his shoulder free and stepped backwards , away from the Hare-woman and closer to Jinny . |
| 6 | Immediately Alec 's eyes filled with sweat again and he strained to hold the delicate balance of the bucket of fire as it moved lower and closer to the shape carved out of the ground . |
| 7 | The Chiefs in both areas — cryptography and intelligence — were distinguished from the Indians because they were fewer , preponderantly male and had better jobs — better because they were more responsible and closer to the brush of real events . |
| 8 | He was forcing the blade closer and closer to her breast . |
| 9 | And people say they noticed how tightly O was holding Boy , pulling him closer and closer to him , as if he was clutching at him ; and how he smelt Boy too , taking in big draughts of the air around him , as if he was a man just escaped from drowning holding onto something and pulling the sweet night air down into his lungs in great grateful gulps . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Some commentators — particularly Cockburn and Dearlove — have argued that this was a period of structural change in which local government became more clearly tied to the interests of capitalism and closer to business interests . |
| 13 | In the early stages after implantation the structure of the new bone next to the implant ceramic is disorganised but as implantation time is increased the arrangement of the bone structure becomes more mature and closer to that of normal bone ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 14 | And the heart-beat grew louder and louder and closer to my ear , and I heard the deep booming sound of the sea at its very deepest depths , where monsters live in total darkness and corpses of drowned sailors lie in coral dust . |
| 15 | Europe has voted for something new and something greener and closer to the community . |
| 16 | However , this can take a very long time to accomplish — some flyers never manage it — and will bring you closer and closer to the next stage to be conquered — the nose-in hover . |
| 17 | ‘ I realised he was n't going to be able to stop and all I could do was watch him come closer and closer to me . |
| 18 | As we grow older and closer to the unanswerable questions concerning our own mortality , it 's hardly surprising that most of us cling more strongly to that which we know and become set in our ways . |
| 19 | They take it in turns to crouch in a cardboard box — edging it closer and closer to the track . |
| 20 | The paper would be whisked out of the cynical ghetto of Fleet Street , and away from distorted , degenerate London priorities — back to basics and closer to ‘ the people ’ . |
| 21 | Easily Accessible : Fairmount House is situated away from the hustle and bustle of the centre of the popular resort of Torquay and closer to the peace of the old and pretty village of Paignton . |
| 22 | Carinish Court was a safer subject than James , less objectionable than Ralph 's views on racial purity and closer to reality than the history of the Salpertons . |
| 23 | The auctioneer also suggested the latter might accept reimbursement lower than the bids recorded in 1990 and closer to recent market prices . |
| 24 | All first year pruning should be harder and closer to the base than in subsequent years . |
| 25 | They will probably move even further away from their origins in the martial arts and closer to western ideals of sporting conflict . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | What bothered him most was that the past seemed to get closer and closer to the present . |
| 28 | And William began to run from the approaching cart , which was piled high with the bodies of the plague victims , and as he ran the streets became the familiar streets of his childhood and he knew that all the time he was running from the terrible cart he was getting closer and closer to the dark house by the railway embankment with its shuttered windows and its locked door , and that this was more terrible to him than anything in his history books . |
| 29 | He saw it all reflected in the eyes of those blood-spattered gallopers and bears and lions and tigers and ostriches , all frozen in mid-stride , helpless witnesses of the terror they could not run from , and Preston trying desperately to escape from it , as much in terror of the mutilated corpse of Mary Moxton as he was of her murderer , and running from room to room and pulling open the last door of the last room and out into the night and down the long black tunnel under the railway line getting closer and closer to the grey patch of light at the end until , on the verge of safety , the figure would leap out at him in its bloody clothes with the meat cleaver in its hands … |
| 30 | The Col d'Aubisque is high , at 5,600 feet , and the views that you have from it are sumptuous , both back the way you have come , and now to the east as well , across to the prominent peak of the Pic du Midi de Bigorre , once thought to be the highest in the chain because it stands rather apart and closer to the plain , and before people took to actually measuring altitudes , the nearest peaks were mistaken for the tallest . |