Example sentences of "was closely [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The course of agricultural and industrial development between 1919 and 1935 produced abundant evidence that Japan was closely tied to the fluctuations of the world economy and highly constrained in the resources at her disposal during a period of growing protectionism . |
| 2 | Although the aim of the Meditations was to stimulate an emotional response to the humanity of Christ in an act of affective piety , this was closely tied to a theological understanding that only through a loving penitential identification with His suffering could man also experience the transfiguring reality of the power of His Resurrection and life . |
| 3 | Dr Fisher has clearly demonstrated that the export of manufactures to Portugal was closely bound to their subsequent re-export from Lisbon to Brazil : " The business that English merchants drove to the English colonies in this period was in fact complemented by substantial indirect trades to the Iberian empires in America . " |
| 4 | A second reason was closely related to this , namely an anthropocentrism which came close to asserting that man could do whatever he liked with creation . |
| 5 | Until the last hundred years or so , the purchasing value of coins was closely related to the intrinsic value of the metal they were made from . |
| 6 | It was closely related to a naturally occurring substance . |
| 7 | The stance most widely adopted by politicians , demographers , and economists was closely related to some of the eugenist arguments of the inter-war years : namely that the ageing of the population would create an unbalanced ratio of workers to dependents , with severe social and economic consequences . |
| 8 | Social structure was closely related to farming systems . |
| 9 | The emergence of International Relations as a separate field of study was closely related to the approach that first captured thinking about the subject . |
| 10 | Whether the transformation is as stark as Atiyah suggests , there can be no doubt that , as he contends , nineteenth-century contract law ‘ was closely related to the ideas of the political economists and to the rise of the market economy ’ . |
| 11 | This expansion was closely related to the degree of telecommunications deregulation . |
| 12 | The same study also corroborated the finding of other studies that the status of the college attended , apart from the years of attendance , was closely related to future earnings . |
| 13 | This argument was closely related to that of Hilaire Belloc in his book The Servile State , which criticised the liberal welfare reforms of the period 190–14 for sapping the independence of workers . |
| 14 | The report concluded that a pupil 's performance was closely related to his or her father 's occupational status : the higher that status , the better a pupil 's performance , not only in leaving school less early but in having a better academic record and , in the headmaster 's judgement , more ‘ promise ’ . |
| 15 | In normal subjects , the duration of the external anal sphincter response was closely related to the duration of rectal contraction and the duration of rectal sensation and increased as the distending volume increased . |
| 16 | George Best , as we saw , was closely linked to ‘ pop culture ’ and international teams began to make special records as part of a ‘ media package ’ for the World Cup . |
| 17 | In the legal world , the most archaic of the lay professions , the idea of status was closely linked to the notion of the grandeur of the law itself : if the population had no respect for judges and barristers , they would soon have no respect for the law of the land . |
| 18 | a party if it was closely linked to that party by organisation , loyalty to party goals and the partisanship of its readers . |
| 19 | The Society for the Promotion of the Employment of Women ( SPEW for short , unfortunately ) was closely linked to the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science ( NAPSS ) founded in 1857 and including among its members many prominent academics , reformers and philanthropists . |
| 20 | He belonged to Umkhonto we Sizwe ( ‘ Spear of the Nation ’ ) , the ANC 's armed wing , and was closely linked to three militant Muslim groups . |
| 21 | Mobility was closely linked to the life-cycle : men and women moved while they were young . |
| 22 | In Foley v Classique Coaches Ltd [ 1934 ] 2 KB 1 the Amoco case and Bridge v Deacons [ 1984 ] AC 705 the adequacy of consideration was closely linked to the question of reasonableness . |
| 23 | This was closely linked to the accumulated grievances of the workers , being also largely a product of de Gaulle 's modernization strategy . |
| 24 | If he countenanced a philosophy of sadism , it was the more dangerous in that its stimulus was closely allied to puritan susceptibilities . |
| 25 | Of the other parties , the Independent Smallholders ' Party ( which had won 57 per cent of the vote in the last free election in 1945 — see p. 7600 ) , led by Istvan Prepeliczay , advocated the return of collectivized land to its owners as listed in the 1947 land register ; the Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP ) was established in October 1989 [ see p. 36960-61 ] as the reformed successor to the Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party ( HSWP ) and currently claimed 50,000-60,000 members , the first candidate on its national list being Imre Poszgay , who had acted as a catalyst for many of the reforms but who came third in the constituency where he was also standing ; and the League of Young Democrats ( FIDESZ ) , led by Viktor Orban and claiming 5,000 members , was closely allied to the SzDSz . |
| 26 | The new government was composed of representatives from an alliance between the multiracial Fiji Labour Party and the National Federation Party which was closely allied to the interests of those of Indian extraction who slightly outnumbered the Melanesian population . |
| 27 | Where Thatcherism sought to limit the power of organized labour , the PSOE was closely allied to the socialist segment of the union movement and promised to extend the rights of unions and workers . |
| 28 | Enoch Powell , who although no longer a Tory MP was closely listened to on the Conservative side , recalled that Margaret Thatcher had been called the ‘ Iron Lady ’ and rather liked the description . |