Example sentences of "[be] related to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of this book is to present a coherent survey of major issues in the study of language and communication , and to show how these are related to questions of practical concern in the learning and teaching of second and foreign languages . |
| 2 | The reasons for this demand , mainly confined to developed nations where there is a large disposable income and significant holiday entitlements , have been discussed in detail by Boniface and Cooper ( 1987 ) and Pearce ( 1987 ) and are related to improvements in transport as well as financial considerations . |
| 3 | The rays are related to sharks , and are in essence sharks that have been ‘ squashed ’ flat in response to life as rather sluggish bottom dwellers . |
| 4 | To some degree these victim profiles are related to elements in the pedestrian environment . |
| 5 | A lot of the problems we meet up with in the surgery are related to difficulties people have in their lives at present or in the past . |
| 6 | All three categories gel into a coherent formulation which states that blacks ' achievements in sport are related to factors determined by their race . |
| 7 | In the other activity , techniques are related to principles with a view to enquiring into the relationship between the two . |
| 8 | The mating systems of these animals are often dependent upon the dispersion patterns of the females and these in turn are related to patterns of optimum food exploitation . |
| 9 | Finally , and still more distantly , the goat-antelopes are related to cattle , true antelopes , gazelles and other members of the Bovid family , which is itself a subdivision of the large and diverse group known as artiodactyls , or even-toed ungulates . |
| 10 | Termites are often known as " white ants ' , but they are related to cockroaches , rather than to true ants , which are related to bees and wasps . |
| 11 | Since demonstrative pronouns typically involve a gesture , it seems easy to assimilate such acts of reference to general theories of action ; if one can then show that other kinds of referring expression are related to demonstratives , the case for viewing reference in general as a species of action is made plausible . |
| 12 | By combining such indicators , a quantitative picture can be presented of what has happened in British central government administration over the period both corporately and in individual departments ; and the question of whether changes in one dimension are related to changes in others can be examined . |
| 13 | Plasma CCK concentrations reached during infusion of CCK-33 were in the same range in the three experiments , thus excluding the possibility that differences in gall bladder contraction between the hyperglycaemic and normoglycaemic experiments are related to differences in plasma CCK concentrations . |
| 14 | It is extremely unlikely therefore that the profound differences in water absorption between the hypertonic and hypotonic ORS are related to differences in sodium or glucose concentration . |
| 15 | Researchers have discovered that periods of dreaming during sleep are related to times of rapid-eye movement ( REM ) during which the eyes flick from side to side under the eyelids . |
| 16 | All the social sciences are predicated on the notion that individuals are not isolated like so many Robinson Crusoes — who , in any case , was already a social creature by the time he was shipwrecked on the island — but are related to others in complex ways . |
| 17 | Coloured guiding lines or tracks are related to signs as ‘ self-guiding ’ devices . |
| 18 | Termites are often known as " white ants ' , but they are related to cockroaches , rather than to true ants , which are related to bees and wasps . |
| 19 | Their names were ‘ such as have been adopted by the Dispensaries ’ and species are related to numbers given in the Dictionary . |
| 20 | It has a theoretical structure which allows for the possibility of a variety of ‘ racisms ’ , depending upon how various elements of ‘ race ’ , ethnicity and nationality are combined , how they are articulated with gender and class , and how they are related to theories in the natural and social sciences and notions in popular culture and common sense . |
| 21 | Nonetheless , it seems reasonable to conclude , as Heuer and Reisberg ( 1990 ) did , that many of peoples most vivid memories are related to events of high emotionality . |
| 22 | Voting rights are related to shareholdings . |
| 23 | There is general agreement that pogonophorans are related to annelids . |
| 24 | For that , on Locke 's understanding of how visual sensations are related to impressions on the retina , is the same in the two cases of my seeing the figure as a drawing of a duck and my seeing it as a drawing of a rabbit . |
| 25 | The ILEA pattern is superficially similar to that often found in American schools : that is to say , the two aspects of resources production and resources acquisition and management are related to types of para-professional staffing . |
| 26 | Most probably the Linear A inscriptions are in the pre-Hellenic language of the Minoans , which may well have been related to languages spoken in south-west Anatolia , such as Luvian or Hittite . |
| 27 | Equally — perhaps more seriously — the relative value of the basic pension has been falling because it has been related to prices , not incomes , so that unless steps are taken , by the year 2025 the value of the basic pension as a proportion of gross earnings could have fallen by half . |
| 28 | In 1678 he applied for a patent for a new way of processing flax , which may have been related to investigations of this topic made under the society 's auspices in the 1660s . |
| 29 | Stubbs , for instance , notes that ‘ Bernstein 's distinction between restricted and elaborated codes ’ has often ‘ been related to distinctions between spoken and written languages respectively ( Milroy 1973 ; Cook-Gumperz 1977 ; Lunzer and Harison 1979 ) ’ ( Stubbs , 1980 , p. 111 ) . |
| 30 | Although the numbers are small , this appears to be related to women having been more likely to have lived in institutions during their childhood . |