Example sentences of "[pron] closer to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gave a laugh and he pressed himself closer to her beneath the cover . |
| 2 | The ‘ Maid of the Mist ’ takes you closer to Niagara Falls |
| 3 | Has the way that you 've dealt with your children 's anxieties brought you closer to them ? |
| 4 | The talks had taken place in a remarkably cordial atmosphere , and at a joint press conference at their conclusion on May 4 , de Klerk declared that he regarded the working document [ see below ] as " an important breakthrough in the peaceful process " , while Mandela said that as a result " not only are we closer to one another , but we are all of us victors " . |
| 5 | In 1844 Youatt described two types of Sussex : one closer to the Devon stock , being smaller , light and agile , the other larger and more like a Hereford except that its coat colour was whole . |
| 6 | We can again feel the wind , the warmth and the cold on our body , which is a new experience for many and does , in some strange way , draw one closer to Nature for that reason alone . |
| 7 | This was a more democratic view of organization , both socially and metaphysically , and one closer to Aristotle and Leibniz , for whom every entity , however lowly , had its degree of consciousness . |
| 8 | It was late afternoon , the micro hones had been taken away , the hall was only half lit ; Karajan sat with the orchestra in something closer to a seance or seminar than a rehearsal . |
| 9 | In the passage above , she makes clear that she is not interested in conventional love poetry , but in describing something closer to her actual way of life . |
| 10 | ‘ People were looking for something closer to nature than races like the Paris-Dakar . ’ |
| 11 | Although these systems are taught to teachers and are available for use in class , various factors appear to mitigate against full use of the systems by the teacher , and as we shall see when we discuss effects of the various approaches , something closer to the Danish system is often used . |
| 12 | The big companies will also be better placed to finance the development of new technologies , turning this traditionally low-tech industry into something closer to chemical engineering . |
| 13 | This provides something closer to historical Marxism , although it does mean that he quickly becomes involved in assumptions about rationality and intentionality , and has to propose a ‘ principle of Humanity ’ , that is a common human nature , to hold them all together . |
| 14 | Indeed it can be argued that the churches in such places were heir to a ‘ purer ’ tradition than Rome 's , because it was not diluted and distorted by Pauline thought ; it was something closer to what Jesus himself , James and the original Nazarean hierarchy would have propagated . |
| 15 | Since my water is very , very hard and alkaline , I decided this was the source of the problem and added rainwater to soften it down to something closer to John 's conditions . |
| 16 | For instance , using wa rather than something closer to English however ( third sentence in the English text ) , reads smoothly in Arabic but sacrifices some of the precision of the English conjunction . |
| 17 | While Winston Churchill ( in his 1940–5 wartime government ) and Margaret Thatcher ( 1979–90 ) were very dominant figures in the cabinets they presided over , prime ministers like Clement Attlee ( 1945–51 ) and John Major ( 1990 to date ) seem to have run their cabinets on something closer to a collective-decision basis . |
| 18 | Something more stubbornly personal , something closer to the rot within him he was determined to stop , lay perhaps rather nearer the mark . |
| 19 | If they do not match your specific interests , take a look at a good shareware catalogue to see if it can offer something closer to your heart . |
| 20 | He smiled at the other man , then smiled at Beth , then at Cissie who , struck with horror at the thin man 's strikingly unpleasant face , pressed herself closer to Beth . |
| 21 | She sensed his fear and , perceiving that he had placed this construction upon their encounter , pressed herself closer to the soft protuberance of his cock , touching his balls with her cheeks , one side and then the other , wheedling the while . |
| 22 | Why are n't they closer to what it is to be an actor ? |
| 23 | Short of this , he wants the Soviet Union tied more closely into the western economy , even as the ending of the cold war tied it closer to western diplomacy . |
| 24 | If temporarily fenced woodland was excluded from the calculation , the overall livestock stocking density on the farm would increase , bringing it closer to the overall stocking threshold above which HLCAs are not paid . |
| 25 | It is therefore advisable to mount it closer to the lid of the case so that there is sufficient space for the circuit board to fit beneath it . |
| 26 | It 's 412 grams pit it closer to the specialist motion control trainers of the market than the general all-round shoe it is designed to be . |
| 27 | The materials are affordable — around £250 including skip and breaker hire for a modest pit — but when labour and VAT are added , they push it closer to £2,000 — at lot of money for a fancy hole in the ground ! |
| 28 | This led Ludendorff o counter-order Francois ’ great northeastward thrust and turn it closer to the main body of the German army in readiness for a possible battle . |
| 29 | Graded E6 6a by John , I felt it closer to 6b — a view confirmed by the second and third ascensionists Howard Lancashire and Mike Waters . |
| 30 | Well , both of them should have been wearing their life jackets before they were over water , and X should not have stowed the dinghy in the locker area when he could have kept it closer to hand on one of the spare rear seats . |