Example sentences of "be related to [noun] " 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 To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what information he has on the number of jobs in the north-west region of England which are related to defence requirements .
4 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 .
5 Naturally most are related to teaching and learning , the major business of the school ; the other activities reinforce the messages of respecting and caring for others .
6 Many of these seemingly contradictory properties of the agents are related to dose .
7 The ‘ eyes ’ or ‘ spectacles ’ on the rear of the Cobra 's hood , as discussed in the chapter entitled ‘ Sign of the Serpent ’ , are related to well-being and balance in terms of spiritual attainment .
8 To some degree these victim profiles are related to elements in the pedestrian environment .
9 It would not be quite accurate to equate satyāgraha with either civil disobedience or non-cooperation although both are related to satyāgraha .
10 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 .
11 Previous reports and our own experience have shown that carbamylated haemoglobin concentrations in patients with chronic renal failure are related to degree of renal impairment as measured by serum urea or creatinine ( r=0.7 , p<0.001 [ Spearman 's rank correlation test ] , for carbamylated haemoglobin [ g VH/g Hb ] vs serum creatinine [ mol/L ] in 70 patients with CRF attending general nephrology clinics ) .
12 All three categories gel into a coherent formulation which states that blacks ' achievements in sport are related to factors determined by their race .
13 Exports X from the domestic economy are related to income levels in the rest of the world , along with other factors such as the exchange rate ( see Section 7.2.1 ) .
14 In a peculiar way , Gothic tales are related to comedy .
15 In the other activity , techniques are related to principles with a view to enquiring into the relationship between the two .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 The returns are related to performance , but that is not surprising these days .
19 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 .
20 Some questions which need to be addressed are what the overall quality of memory for driving is like , what types of detail can or can not be remembered , and what variables , both psychological and environmental , are related to memory ?
21 You are related to Michel ? ’
22 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 .
23 However , there are a number of studies which do suggest that socio-economic characteristics are related to morbidity and to access to health services .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 N are index terms ( that is , descriptors ) and B and C and so on are related to A via some hierarchy of relationships .
29 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 .
30 Coloured guiding lines or tracks are related to signs as ‘ self-guiding ’ devices .
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