Example sentences of "[pers pn] be related [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It is an important implication of this that they are never a matter of how the things which have them are related to other things .
2 Descendants of the nomadic ‘ hordes ’ of Central Asia , many of them are related to the minority peoples of the Soviet Union , whom they closely resemble .
3 The hypotheses , formed after his observations , are many ; but most of them are related to the empirical findings of a long tradition and the world is spared a too individualistic interpretation of some of Nature 's more self-willed manifestations .
4 He asked if I was related to Margaret . ’
5 You are related to Michel ? ’
6 if you are related to , or have a close personal relationship with , a colleague in the ES ; or
7 For example , you might have been a mere , much more happy about making a sacrifice for your brother , giving him a sweet , if you knew that on other occasions , he would give one to you , and because you are related to each other .
8 You 're related to him , are n't you ? ’
9 If you call him Moke I 'm the only person that calls i that calls him that , so he 'll know who you 're related to .
10 I did n't know that you were related to her . ’
11 She is related to the Emperor . ’
12 She is related to her sister 's children , so she has a genetic self interest in me doing things for my , for , for her er , female , er for her relatives and my father does n't .
13 After the death of Sicily 's most recent king , William II , a dispute arose over the succession , which should have gone to William 's aunt ; she was related to the son of the German Emperor , Frederick Barbarossa .
14 She was able to keep Steve because where she lived within the er there was a little coronet of little tatty houses that have since been pulled down and she was related to fifteen in fifteen out of the twenty two houses she had a relative .
15 reset and that 's how I met up with bleeding Tony he came to visit me meeting a friend , it 's only me he said oh go round and see this girl I know and she was related to my best mate , it 's a complicated story and we sort of went from there really
16 and we were well it was somebody who was a stranger to me but allegedly she was related to the family or something
17 The fact that we call both our mother 's brother and father 's brother by the same term does not mean that we are unaware of the fact that we are related to them in different ways or that we can not express this difference by using such phrases as ‘ my uncle on my mother 's side ’ .
18 ‘ My greatest hope is that we shall gain a deeper knowledge of who we are and how we are related to the Universe , and that this knowledge will further the evolutionary progression of our collective consciousness . ’
19 I have in the last couple of lectures erm outlined or tried to outline erm Locke 's basic decision erm his concept of how we as individuals are related to nature , to each other and I 've emphasised the crucial importance of this notion of how we are related to God .
20 The state is nothing but a family and we 're related to his majesty Charles the First just as we are related to our dads as simple as that , you know , the private and the public are identical political relationships are fundamentally family relationships .
21 The state is nothing but a family and we 're related to his majesty Charles the First just as we are related to our dads as simple as that , you know , the private and the public are identical political relationships are fundamentally family relationships .
22 They are related to corresponding breeds in Norway , Finland and the USSR and have been bred in Sweden for centuries .
23 They are related to the larger group of long-horned cattle in Andalusia and perhaps also the longhorns of Britain and the ancient Hamitic long-horned cattle which migrated into Africa .
24 The first part of the definition of a test factor should now be clear : test factors need to be introduced only when they are related to both the variables under consideration .
25 Linguistically and culturally they are related to the Semai about whom Robarchek is writing in this volume .
26 People do give support to their kin but they do so in a way which is patchy , possibly idiosyncratic , and which certainly can not be predicted simply from knowing how they are related to each other .
27 All sources of information , if they are related to meaning , are deemed worthy of investigation and possible subsequent inclusion in the design of a ’ semantic knowledge base ’ .
28 First , they are related to subadditivity — the question of whether or not the industry is a natural monopoly .
29 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 .
30 They are related to the greenhouse " geraniums " or pelargoniums and , like them , need protection against cold .
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