Example sentences of "may be related to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As yet there has been no detailed attempt to assess the possible effects of such hot-spot ‘ migration ’ on landscape development , but there is some evidence from the stratigraphic record of the movement of topographic swells across continents which may be related to the passage of hot spots or similar thermal phenomena .
2 These changes may be related to the indicator of the differential effect on the welfare of the two classes introduced in Lecture 6 ( Eq .
3 The possibility of increased virulence in these antibiotic resistant strains ( which may be related to the presence of plasmids encoding antibiotic resistance and virulence factors ) suggests that attempts to limit their selection by judicious use of narrow spectrum antibiotics should be considered at all times .
4 Another possible explanation for the distribution pattern may be related to the influence of the subcrop to the Bunter Shale , i.e. the Zechstein Formation .
5 Groups that may be related to the eldoniids include rotadiscids , paropsonemids and Velumbrella .
6 These may be related to the history and age of the organisation , leadership and management style and its structure and systems .
7 Indeed , some of the basic policies adopted by a company 's flight operations department may be related to the findings or recommendations of the flight safety section .
8 Pupils should gain increasing understanding that texts may be related to the interests of different groups — such as women or men , adolescents or minorities of different kinds — and that critical thinking about existing stereotypes and values can be stimulated by studying literature which expresses alternative points of view : for example , on the family , nature and industrialisation , the nation or literature itself .
9 It may be related to the catheterisation of the coeliac trunk and the splenic artery .
10 These suggest that bleomycin distorts the DNA structure around its binding site to a form which is more readily cleaved by DNase I. This effect has been noted with natural DNA sequences [ 10 ] and may be related to the ability of the antibiotic to unwind and extend the DNA helix .
11 It may be related to the size , complexity and nature of the company 's operation and therefore to the organisational structure which has been developed over many years .
12 Results suggest that symptoms due to DGR may be related to the sensitivity of the gastric lining as well as the amounts of duodenal contents flowing back into the stomach .
13 The casual attitude may be related to the observation that the children were rarely changed and were often left in wet nappies .
14 Likewise , the carcinogenic action of bile may be related to the duration of exposure of gastric mucosa to biliary carcinogens .
15 … it has been suggested that the value of an activity may be related to the time expended by the user .
16 For example " the members of the family " who gather at a funeral may be related to the deceased in all sorts of different ways but the group as a whole is unlikely to be associated with any particular household or married couple .
17 This may be related to the maintenance of hepatopetal portal blood flow as well as the small diameter of the shunt .
18 This may be related to the destabilisation of the gastric mucosa engendered by a lifetime of exposure to the environmental conditions in coal mines , although clearly these symptoms could also be related to the asthenia of chronic respiratory disease which is so common in coal miners .
19 In around 60% of cases , the cause of the handicap may be related to the age of the mother , as the rate of incidence increases considerably where the mother is older .
20 Does my hon. Friend agree that the welcome improvement in staying-on rates may be related to the quality of education in schools ?
21 The issue of interpretation concerns two different ways in which the property P may be related to the entity E.
22 This difficulty may be related to the fact that deductive markers are optional — they were frequently omitted by both children and adults in the deductive marking experiment .
23 They speculated that this may be related to the fact that patients are referred with chronic or refractory conditions that have proved difficult to treat in general practice .
24 Subsidence is common in certain oceanic areas and may be related to the creation and collapse of mid-ocean rises ( Stoddart , I 969 ) .
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