Example sentences of "[to-vb] closer to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some reasons you may find apply in your case include : deciding on a career change ; looking for more responsibility ( both good , positive reasons ) ; coming to the end of seasonal or short-contract employment ; insufficient money ; wanting to work closer to home . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps it was , ’ said Ludens , ‘ I wanted to come closer to you and you must have felt it . ’ |
| 3 | It is designed to act out potential accidents that could occur in a full-scale , commercial reactor , and it claims to come closer to recreating the real thing than any other testing facility . |
| 4 | The book becomes gripping once allows his own interests and opinions to come closer to the surface . |
| 5 | To come closer to our present concern , there is no more hope for the idea that a certain determinism is false because we do not aspire to prove it , but rather proceed in several alternative ways , including probabilistic ways , on the assumption of its truth . |
| 6 | This perception seems to come closer to providing an explanation for sex-differentiation in language than explanations based on prestige . |
| 7 | It required the next generation of researchers and a simpler mollusc to come closer to finding god 's favourite . |
| 8 | Since their mother 's death Claudia had hoped to come closer to her sister , but Dana had the world at her feet and she laughed at all Claudia 's attempts to resurrect the bond they had shared as children . |
| 9 | Moreover , some of the new units will be designed for one or two persons , so that it may be possible to come closer to a one for one replacement on cleared sites than would be expected by past experience . |
| 10 | If he had not so perceived it , the Tsar lost no time in pointing it out , for on each subsequent occasion when an attempt was made by Paris to draw closer to St Petersburg the Russians raised the question of the Black Sea Clauses . |
| 11 | Society in general is kinder too in its attitude to the widower , and is prepared to draw closer to him to give him help and support as he does his grief-work . |
| 12 | Like Walt Whitman , who became a wound dresser in the American Civil War in order to draw closer to the simple young soldiers he adored and whom he wished to tend , Vincent sought to draw nearer to Christ . |
| 13 | Help us to draw closer to others , in friendship and fellowship , so that as ambassadors for you we may convey Your message to the world today . |
| 14 | The non-turbo is expected to put out about 250bhp and to cost closer to £30,000 . |
| 15 | McHale is toying with the idea of a complete reshuffle as the Seasiders bid to climb closer to the Fourth Division play-off zone . |
| 16 | The easier it is to use courts or , even better , private agreements to sort out disputes between creditors and shareholders while the firm continues to operate , the lower the costs will be , and the greater the incentive to skate closer to the edge . |
| 17 | Such may be the consequence of subletting council property without prior approval of the local authority , in order to live closer to college . |
| 18 | No wonder I 'm returning to live closer to my alma mater . |
| 19 | And he seemed to get closer to these seamen because of that . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Marie shoved the table aside to get closer to Gazzer . |
| 22 | As it seemed to get closer to reality , I felt myself changing . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Anything to get closer to home … stalling tactics … |
| 25 | Either the youngsters have a view of the world that is the complete opposite to that of their seniors , or they decided a man of the church should be left to get closer to the heavens . |
| 26 | I tried to get closer to them . |
| 27 | In her attempt to get closer to her mother she had unknowingly identified with the mother 's way of not explaining anything . |
| 28 | If the surrounding web of reality which we perceive is partly true and partly false , then in order to get closer to the truth some things need to be doubted so that others can properly be believed . |
| 29 | In an interview in 1983 Bishop Peter said : ‘ I have a house full of young people who spend a year with me praying and working in the community to get closer to God , and I let them impinge on my ministry . |
| 30 | Charles Innes , an experienced lawyer who advised Lord Dundas in political matters , had no doubt about the desirability of acting to meet Glassford 's wishes , pointing out that Carrick had not been dismissed for malversation , which would have made reinstatement a difficult matter , but for ‘ some piece of neglect or inattention ’ , and in fact another of Dundas 's correspondents appeared to get closer to the heart of the difficulty when he met with Glassford , reporting that |