Example sentences of "[be] closely [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The constellation of behaviours : pointing , vocalising and checking may be closely tied to the acquistion of language . |
| 2 | Nor can the hoards be closely related to the campaigns of the war . |
| 3 | The chemical structure of mescaline was established in 1918 and was found to be closely related to that of adrenaline , which leads to some interesting speculations . |
| 4 | In the past it was believed to be closely related to the shaggy , hardy Highland . |
| 5 | Fiegehan and his colleagues ( 1977 ) found age to be closely related to poverty : old people in Britain often subsist on very small incomes indeed . |
| 6 | It should lead to more understanding of language diversity , including multilingualism , and be closely related to pupils ' experience in their own communities , and therefore be treated with great sensitivity to pupils ' home backgrounds . |
| 7 | Anaspids also show a dorsally placed nasohypophysial opening and are therefore considered to be closely related to lampreys and cephalaspids . |
| 8 | This appears to be closely related to whether we share the observed characteristic or not . |
| 9 | In these two examples , we are reminded that what cloze is measuring is the predictability , or more accurately , the redundancy within a passage , and this may or may not be closely related to its comprehensibility . |
| 10 | GSR as a measure can , of course , be criticised for the fact that it is known to be closely related to the subject 's expectancies and preparations for action . |
| 11 | These morphological findings suggest that the intercellular communication mediated by gap junctions involved in the local homeostasis of the gastric mucosa is decreased in patients with gastric ulcer and that this decrease may be closely related to gastric ulcer formation . |
| 12 | In constructing a scheme of work then the selection of content must be closely related to a judgement on the depth of coverage to be attempted . |
| 13 | Rather than a bourgeois audience , however , he saw the fabliau as belonging primarily to a seigneurial , aristocratic milieu , and to be closely related to romance precisely as the antithesis of romance ; as being very largely parodic . |
| 14 | The location of rift systems also seems to be closely related to the distribution of ancient structures representing zones of weakness between stable cratons . |
| 15 | For example , as we noted , the definition of pragmatics as concerned with encoded aspects of context may be less restrictive than it seems at first sight ; for if in general ( a ) principles of language usage have as corollaries principles of interpretation , and ( b ) principles of language usage are likely in the long run to impinge on grammar ( and some empirical support can be found for both propositions ) , then theories about pragmatic aspects of meaning will be closely related to theories about the grammaticalization of aspects of context . |
| 16 | In such cases , the shots can often be saved by dubbing in suitable backgrounds of a kind which do not need to be closely synchronised to the pictures . |
| 17 | Remember also to record effects of a kind which do not need to be closely synchronised to the pictures . |
| 18 | His fate , and the fate of his department , is going to be closely bound to the new Unit . |
| 19 | It is an issue both of absolute shortages of the wood .. and the distributions of available wood supplies between different uses and users … its causes are seen to be closely linked to the distribution of economic and political power between classes and social groups which determines who gets how much of a scarce resource . |
| 20 | continue unabated , fuelled by the fact that assessment of their performance and career prospects will be closely linked to their ability to be published in recognised journals . |
| 21 | Deskilling appeared to be closely linked to computerization : least skill was required by the clerks at the most computerized of the institutions , the local authority . |
| 22 | However , Danish Foreign Minister and co-chairman of the meeting Uffe Ellemann-Jensen emphasized that the Council would be closely linked to existing European organizations . |
| 23 | Ophiohelus is considered to be closely allied to these three genera . |
| 24 | Concepts of instrumentation in this period appear still to be closely allied to Renaissance consort principles . |
| 25 | Dense summer acid hazes are now experienced over extensive areas of rural southern Britain , being closely related to the advection of polluted continental air masses ( Barnes and Lee , 1978 ; Lee , 1983a , 1983b , 1988 ) . |
| 26 | The people of Azerbaijan sympathized with Turkey , so that domestic collisions were closely related to external threats . |
| 27 | The Tyrells of Gipping , for instance , were closely related to the Darcies and through them with other members of the court group . |
| 28 | The compromise was a system within which ‘ approved ’ occupational pension schemes were closely related to a new state earnings-related pension scheme ( SERPS ) . |
| 29 | Cuvier noticed that the most recently extinct creatures such as the mammoth were closely related to living species . |
| 30 | Darwin himself contributed to this trend by bringing back fossils from the voyage of the Beagle showing that the past inhabitants of South America were closely related to the modern ones . |