Example sentences of "[vb infin] closer to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dave Walsh , one of the event organisers , is confident that the final number will fall closer to 3000 . |
| 2 | Knowing that made me feel closer to Steffi and the other players . |
| 3 | " I expect they made you feel closer to her somehow . " |
| 4 | This is a world in which we can grow closer to God . |
| 5 | In this way will you grow closer to the Whale . |
| 6 | You can then work closer to your real ability — twice or three times what you did before . |
| 7 | As a consequence , mothers especially may become closer to their daughters because they now have the experience of pregnancy and childbirth in common . |
| 8 | High-church men such as Gladstone and Wilberforce did indeed stick closer to the literal text of the Bible than their twentieth-century successors would ; they saw all its books as an inspired unit , ‘ Holy Scripture ’ . |
| 9 | Well , when I 'm finished with you , you 'll look closer to thirty . " |
| 10 | If you are looking for vandals then I think some people should look closer to home . |
| 11 | Hitch was a couple of years younger than his boss but his long blond hair and perpetual sun tan ( the product of a solarium ) made him look closer to thirty than thirty-six . |
| 12 | It makes sense that the Province should draw closer to the heart of the Community , where decisions which will affect every individual and company will increasingly be taken . |
| 13 | There can be a great variety of these ; one of the most common is the death , absence , or emotional withdrawal of his father during the formative years of his childhood , which made him draw closer to his mother than he would otherwise have done . |
| 14 | He did not move closer to her . |
| 15 | If so , French bond yields will deservedly move closer to Germany 's . |
| 16 | That is , the assumption that by controlling a researcher can move closer to the truth , or is at worst a benign procedure , can not be sustained . |
| 17 | And on page thirty nine could we please make sure that the telephone box does not move closer to people 's homes . |
| 18 | He did n't move closer to her , but his voice was little more than a whisper . |
| 19 | The new post will see Mr Williams move closer to his beloved football team Chester City . |
| 20 | The new post will see Rev Williams move closer to his beloved football team Chester City . |
| 21 | Higher value-added products will doubtless become more important but the business will also move closer to the consumer . |
| 22 | Woosie aside , most of us might score closer to the 100 with which Bernard Darwin won the first official Club meeting in 1893 . |
| 23 | Moidart 's trip from her Newmarket base to Edinburgh last time was rewarded with victory and she should score closer to home in the Charter Handicap . |
| 24 | Moidart 's trip from her Newmarket base to Edinburgh last time was rewarded with victory and she should score closer to home in the Charter Handicap . |
| 25 | If such industries are nationalized in order that they can produce closer to the socially efficient output , it is inevitable that they will make losses and require a subsidy from the government . |
| 26 | ‘ When you seed teams four years in advance , you can not take into account what will happen closer to the tournament . ’ |
| 27 | How often did they stray closer to the plant than they should , especially given its stark attraction as the only prominent feature in an otherwise flat coastline ? |
| 28 | It is true that on other parts of the A fifty nine system , particularly through Knaresborough , er the new road the outer northern bypass could take closer to thirty percent off the existing A fifty nine , but the traffic flows on that part of the A fifty nine are very much lower , so there is much less need , much less environmental need for a bypass there er a relief road I should say , there in the first place . |
| 29 | Asik simply wished he could live closer to the village but he knew there was no way his grandparents would survive the move , so he trundled on and tried dearly not to think about it . |
| 30 | Do not be worried if your angles do not exactly add up to 180° As you become more accurate with your work , so you will get closer to 180° . |